Taser tests
To study the recent deaths of people from Tasers and other stun guns, a professor plans to test them on pigs to see if they die from the shock or other causes:
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to study whether stun guns alone can kill pigs — or whether other medical factors must be at play — as part of an effort to understand why 70 people have died in North America since 2001 after being shocked by Tasers.
Animal rights groups are upset about it. Why the test?
Webster wants to test his hypothesis that Taser-related deaths were the result of heart failure fueled by drug use and other medical factors, not electrocution by the devices. To do so, researchers will begin in the next month studying how Taser electrical currents flow through 150-pound pigs.
March 29th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
I volunteer Ward Churchhill and Ted Rall. If we need a woman’s opinion, how about Hillary and Janet Reno?
Let’s do some SCIENCE!
March 29th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
This still does not solve the problem of tasers being used and killing people.
If it was other factors that contributed to the death of people with tasers, those people are dead by a “non-leathal device”, and the police still have no way of knowing if a person has those conditions which could cause death before they act.
March 29th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
I just hope they don’t waste good drugs on pigs that they then kill with tasers.
March 29th, 2005 at 10:50 pm
Mmmm…bacon.