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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Electronic Self Defense Devices
- Message-ID: <75834@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:01:11 GMT
- References: <1h2ih4INNo4b@mirror.digex.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1h2ih4INNo4b@mirror.digex.com> curt@access.digex.com (curt williams) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know anything about the 80,000 volt electronic stun guns.
- >I am not refering to the Tazer (sic) devices. These things are big
- >capacitors (I think) that store a very high voltage, low amperage
- >charge and have to be held against an assailant for 2-4 seconds.
- >They are powered by one or two 9 volt batteries.
- [...]
- >What I'm looking for is answers to the questions:
- >
- > 1) how painful
- > 2) how incapacitating
- > 3) effective for how long
- > 4) does it knock out, immobalize or just disorient
- > (apparently, it doesn't kill, but if anyone thinks
- > it might, I'd like to hear from you real soon)
-
- A couple of years ago somebody brought one of these to class at
- the Shao-Lin school at which I studied in Denver. Two of the
- more senior students, both of them, you might say, given to
- somewhat rash decisions, got ahold of the thing and one zapped
- the other with it. The victim's reaction was to shout "OW!" and
- grab it to go after the other guy.
-
- Now these guys were fairly tough; one of them was noted for practicing
- shoulder-height flying scissors on a concrete floor without a
- partner. The lesson I took away from this incident, however, was
- to not expect these things necessarily to do more than irritate
- a tough, determined opponent.
-