Woo Hoo!  Taser International has been busy, developing ever more fascinating ways to use their “nonlethal” zapper, and they’ve really come up with a great idea this time, the Shockwave. It’s a “remote area denial system.”  I know, just the name sounds so exciting.

In the past, the use of a Taser required at minimum the active choice of a someone, usually a police officer, to decide that if you didn’t show enough respect, or respect fast enough, a good jolt would usually solve the problem (provided it didn’t kill someone).  But how often does “human error” take a great weapon like Taser and turn it into the misunderstood victim?  After all, some dopey officer would have to taser some individual miscreant.  Such a great weapon, and only one writhing scoundrel on the ground at a time.  How unfulfilling.

Well, Taser (it’s motto is “protect life”, though it doesn’t mention whose life it’s talking about) has solve the problem!  Check this out. 


via videosift.com

The idea, I guess, is that this new taser can zap a whole crowd at one time, no individual discriminatory use potential at all.  You’re there, you’re down.  Media?  Down.  Peaceful protester exercising first amendment rights?  Down.  Off duty cop walking off a heavy night of drinking?  Down.  This sucker doesn’t discriminate.  It drops everyone to the ground.

And if you really want to know what the chicks think of this, just check out this PoliceOne “interview”.  To say the interviewer is gushing is an understatement.  I guess there’s nothing like dozens of zapping tasers to make a gal’s heart go aflutter.

What a shame they didn’t have this in time for the national political conventions.  How much “safer” it all would have been.  For the cops, at least.

H/T to Karl Mansoor, who provided numerous “views” of this marvel of modern law enforcement science.