Reporter Tests New ‘Taser Grenade’ on Himself: ‘Shock and Ow’
- Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:25am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s a clever title for a puzzling story. But it did produce some great video.
The Daily reporter Justin Rocket Silverman decided to test the new “taser grenade” and its 50,000 volts. Guess what: it hurts. So much so he decided to call his story “Shock and Ow.” Appropriate.
First, Silverman gives the specs of the new weapon for maximum effect:
Fresh out of Taser’s R&D lab in Scottsdale, Ariz., the Taser Grenade, or 40mm HEMI (short for “human electro-muscular incapacitation”) projectile, works much like a grenade. But instead of blasting deadly shrapnel, it releases tiny metal barbs that latch onto skin or clothing, creating a “circuit” for the massive jolt of paralyzing electricity.
Since they can be shot out of the same grenade launchers soldiers attach to their M-16s, and cops use to fire tear gas canisters, these powerful projectiles allow authorities to “tase” someone from afar.
The new projectile means law enforcement or military officials can tase someone from as far away as 900 ft. And even at that distance, it leaves burn marks on the skin.
This is what 50,000 volts surging through someone’s body looks like. But, a little disclaimer: officials didn’t want to fire the actual grenade at Silverman, so instead they hooked him up to the taser’s shocking (in the voltage sense of the word), and powerful, guts:
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Comments (60)
Psychosis
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:20pmi love my taser knuckles
small, easily held in the hand, and unseen by the punk invading my ring of dominance
its really fun when they get knocked to the ground with a gentle poke to the gut :)
Report Post »bkfirvine
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:03pmLet’s use one on Mika Brzezinski!
Report Post »KeninMontana
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:06pmI have a friend who is a LEO and a taser trainer. All officers who take the training are required to get “tased” as part of the certification before they can carry it. It would explain why many officers are somewhat reluctant to employ it, but they will if you insist on volunteering. The security firm I work for is considering using them, I’m really not looking forward to it,really.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:49pmhee hee hee
Report Post »rochmoninoff
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:24pmI’m curious why this is called a grenade?
Report Post »A grenade is an area-of-effect weapon (hits everyone in a blast radius).
This is a remotely deployed taser and it affects only one target.
markamerica
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:17pmHere’s the problem I have with Tasers: They are potentially lethal. As a law-abiding citizen, I hope never to be on the receiving end of one of these, but I’ll tell you, from my perspective, they’d be better off shooting me dead then hitting me with one of these, leaving open the possibility I’d ever get out of the lockup.
I consider Tasers to be torture. I also think too many cops think this is a way to impose a little punishment on the people they decide to apprehend. Punishment is not their job.
Love cops… Just not ALL cops.
Mark
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:30pmI say arm them with whatever it takes. At least the police don’t have to shoot and kill them when they have their freak outs! Why do the POLICE always have to be the ones to defend their actions? How about we question what the evil CRIMINALS are doing?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:10pmLaser induced plasma channel used as virtual wire for long-distance taser.
Report Post »Buzzsaw
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:07pmno doubt this is for use on the American people.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:05pmDeploy these to Madison, ASAP
Report Post »Vunks
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:20pmThis is very sad.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:03pmScrew that.
Faraday Suit.
Tase that, I’m grounded.
Matter of fact, why don’t you go ahead and send 50 kv through my Faraday Suit so I can get a full charge for my enhanced electron beam weapon created from modified cathode ray tube parts.
Report Post »TheWatcher
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:15pmOk, one more time… this is your brain…. this is your brain on drugs… fried..
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:15pmJustin Rocket Silverman is super-hot. I like.
Report Post »Lucent
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:07pmArm all State capitols with these for the state troopers to use the next time the labor union organize another army of students, winos, druggies and activists to storm the state house to further the entitlement mass mind.
…I will defend The Constitution from all enemies…
Report Post »lreinhart2
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:01pmI have too much other homework to work on…..does anyone have any facts on tasers as far as what voltage may…..initiate fibrillation, if any….?
Report Post »gunkgy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:55pmits not the voltage, but the wattage that causes problems. The tazers have very low wattage.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:58amWhy is it called the Tazer Grenade? It doesn’t behave anything like a grenade. It doesn’t explode in a storm of tazer probes that incapacitate everyone in the area. It’s just a tazer stuck into a large projectile that they shoot out of a gun.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:03pmMy guess is because it is launched using what looked like an M32 grenade launcher and the projectile is shaped just like the grenades it launches as well as the M203 launchers.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:55amOK, now that we have the laser gun, can we get our robot maid?
Report Post »jobe
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:53amGreat until the grenade goes off and barbs someone in the eye. Cannot be used safely in a law enforcement. Just saying. Against terrorist no problem.
Report Post »ED4237
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:51amWhat an idiot you get what you deserve..
Report Post »raydg
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:46amDevolop Taser for the military? What the hell for? So that our Soldiers and Marines will be killed like the Federal Agents in Mexico? I was taught in Basic Combat Training if you can wound, so that we would tie up enemy resources in caring for the fallen soldier, but still kill anyway. I guess that our government hates the military so much that they will take their firearms and replace them with non-lethal toys.
Report Post »lreinhart2
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:59amIt says it is being tested by the military, but that the units may soon be available to police units…etc.
Report Post »My question is….how is the military testing it…on who….how..? Does that mean the enemy is the guinea pig, etc…..just sayin’
walkwithme1966
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:01pmOK, this is what I learned – if I hear anyone saying taser, taser, taser, – lay down quickly!!! This is what the military is going to use on citizens if martial law is ever ordered!!! OUCH!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »CaptRory
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:08pmLet’s be fair. Nonlethal weaponry has been in development for decades. And with the rise of “civil” disobedience globally putting the lie to the effectiveness of current less than lethal armaments, I’d be eager to find something new too.
My concern is the implication that our military will be used to restore order either because law enforcement is unable or unwilling.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:23pmThey are not equipping the military with this technology so it can be employed in a foreign theater of war. It is being deployed so it can be used here in our cities (and towns) for non-lethal crowd control. When TSHTF, they’re gonna need it.
Report Post »One may ask, “If it gets bad, will US troops fire on US citizens?”
No need now. Taser will be on the front lines to help put down any revolt.
Dale
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:19amCaptRory;
I fear the police more than the military. Freedom Watch’s Cousin Andrew almost daily has a segment where rogue police violate constitutional protections. There is just one other little, small problem: UNIONS.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:42amKind of how I feel every time barry obama makes a speech.
Report Post »jim
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:40amTaser HQ looks bad***.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:39amAll Conservatives should be armed with one.
Report Post »TheObviousWorld
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:22pmTel me how and I’d happily get one but I think the government wants them just to hold that power.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:37amSo the test subject is a reporter and now he can report on the effects first hand…let the jokes begin.
“Shocking!!!
Report Post »“Surge on!!!
“Electrifing!!!
“Mr Spock, wrong switch!!!
“Uh, master yoda, I seem to have missed…
biohazard23
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:35amMoments before his tazing, he was overheard saying, “Hey, y’all, watch this!”
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:39amYeah, and the hippie inside of him screams out…
“Yeah, what a surge, what a rush! What a charge!”
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:39amI have to wonder though, is he imitating uncle fester from the Adams family show?
And if so, where is the lightbulb in his mouth?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:44am@snowleopard, LMAO!!!!!!
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:03amWhen will NERF come out with one!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:33amsign me up, where can i order at least a thousand???? what an idiot to let some one tase you with 50,000 volts,what a dumb but. can we use them on Francis fox Pevins,and the left, starting now please.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:55amAre we getting better, wiser, more intelligent every day?
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:02pmThis is just the tip of the iceberg regarding wepons the public hasn’t seen yet. Too bad we’ll see them in use on our own soon enough, question is, from which side?
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:34pmshortly befoe being tazed he was heard to say … ‘Hold my beer’
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:04pmSome people will do ANYTHING to get on THE BLAZE!!!
Report Post »M-O-O-N Spells Moon
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:39pm@Fletch
“shortly befoe being tazed he was heard to say … ‘Hold my beer’”
ROFLMAO
*wipes away tears of laughter* Thank you, I needed that.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:27pmIt was “Watch this Bubba…hold my beer”….Get it right man
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:20pmHey Arizona… Build a border fence out of that thing…
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:38amAmazing how stupid Americans are to have outfitted our gov’t with the capacity to incapacitate its population.
Hitler must be salivating.
Report Post »Mr. V
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:44amYes, a well armed police state to quickly shut down dissent. Thankfully our government is funneling our tax dollars to certain industries to be able to handle this problem.
Report Post »sp1223c
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:43pmI prefer the old school weapons.
Report Post »ying
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 2:46amYou can get them from an officer.
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