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Cops certainly get CS'd or PAVA'd during training. Not sure about Taser whether they use it without the barbs or just watch the videos.

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Seems to have been a bit too effective in this case... :(

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Not as simple as the headline makes out (imho).

From the article -
"When officers arrived at the house at about 1900 GMT on Saturday they were confronted by the armed man, police said.
He was then shot with the police Taser gun.
"The man went into the house where he inflicted a more serious injury on himself," said Bedfordshire Police.
"When officers found him, he was in urgent need of medical attention." He was taken to Bedford South Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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If the Tazer guns are effective at stopping drug crazed Neanderthals they should be issued to all police officers in the UK.

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Tazers are effective at stopping anyone who conducts electricty. Maybe if the clothes are thick enough the barbs won't penetrate.

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I think they do, I was watching something on the TV not so long ago and they were testing the new guns, one copper had several layers of clothing on and the pins managed to get through and give him a jolt.

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This really gets my goat, that people bring in there Human Rights crap, and how powerful these taser guns are, what we have in this country, is the laws are far too soft, if police officers are forced to face a lot of yobbos, who are terrosing someone, then they should be able to use any force nessersary, wether it is a taser, or water cannon(although not in this country) or batons, dogs, or horses, then they should use, human rights, to me they have thrown that out of the window, they commit a crime, thats it, they don't have any HR, we already have a system, where some do gooder will come along and say, they might have committed a crime, but they still have rights, absolute tosh.

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Looking here The barbs are probably 1/2" long, but contacts extend for another couple of inches. If its fabric, it should cut through as its sharp. It would depend on if they are wearing are armour or the cop is unlucky and hits the guy's wallet in his inside chest jacket pocket.

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here in lincolnshire the police dont use any of that paraphernalia, good god man havent you heard of the crime number,once issued all crime instantly stops, no need for fancy gadgets.

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And almost 2 years later there is another shocking (sorry) proposal

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/h...guns-1.1001189

:shocking:

Long overdue IMHO, hopefully this will happen fairly quickly and the local pondlife will get the message that having a pop at the Police isn't a clever thing to do.

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Any animal lovers can sleep easy knowing that fluffy the sheep will be safe if it decides to take some crystal meth and get tasered.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04...p_zap_shocker/

I wonder if it made their wool stand on end?

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Link to the original Reuters article here:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL0...070901?sp=true


( Yahoo link in OP has used up its bandwidth allocation :D )

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Close; not caprine, but ovine...

Thanks for that. Didn't I read somewhere that there is a repositry of all web pages? A sort of British Library of the web?

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Ouch...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-10701733

:erm:

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Ouch.....

(I hope he's told the DVLA and his Insurance Company he's got Guillain Barre syndrome, because if not, they know now....)