Sci-fi Meets Reality: Taser Firing Flying Saucers Now in Production
Antoine di Zazzo, identified by AFP as “one of the biggest Taser representatives” is developing a small airborne drone version of a weapon that can administer electrical jolts of 50,000 volts. The mini-flying saucer like drone will fire Taser stun rounds on criminal suspects or rioting crowds. He expects it to be launched next year and to be sold internationally by Taser.
The AFP reports that TASER could soon be big in France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “no-nonsense law and order tactics are one reason why the engineer businessman is confident of huge demand for the gun, despite controversy over its use in North America and being declared a form of torture by a UN committee.”
Despite this, di Zazzo says that no death has been attributed to the use of the tasers and that the controversy is caused by misunderstanding the technology. He’s been ‘tasered’ himself, more than 50 times and states he’s never felt the worse for the ordeal. Taser International says the device “saves lives” because it is an effective alternative to a real gun. It has also won more than 50 legal cases in the United States alleging the gun was linked to a death.
Obviously di Zasso doesn’t read DU.
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They better be out of shot gun range. Pull! [BLAMO]
No deaths have been attributed to tasers? Gee, someone should tell that guy who just died after being tasered in Canada.
“Dziekanski was hit twice with the 50-thousand volt taser, then pinned to the ground by the four officers. He died within minutes.”
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#4
Your electric fence uses only one wire and uses the earth as a return circuit. This is why it is hurts animals with no shoes more than it does careless people who touch the wire. Also, the wetter the ground, the more conductive it is and the more reliable the shock.
Tasers actually fire 2 contacts, and should be able to complete the circuit in absence of an earth ground.
BAN this crap and all Tasers.
and yet surely robbing someone with a taser would be a lesser charge than with a lethal weapon.
Not in my state, and probably not yours either. Robbing someone with a toy pistol carries the same charge as using an actual weapon.
Killing someone with a toy weapon might carry a lesser penalty than killing them with a gun, though. Check with your lawyer.
Would it be illegal to “shoot down” a flying weapon?
If threatened by this thing, would it be justifiable to destroy it? Because, how would one it wasn’t controlled by a non-law enforcement entity?
This seems like an escalating step. It would also seem that escalation begets escalation.
By stating: “It would also seem that escalation begets escalation”, I mean rioters would arm themselves with firearms to counter this threat.
It would seem that a smarter approach is required.
Oh, that sounds like a great idea. Sending out single-shot Tasers to control a rioting crowd of tens or hundreds of thousands of rioters.
Looks like an excellent way to provoke a bloodbath, when the rioters can’t tell who’s electrocuting them, and open fire at point-blank range on the authorities.
>>He’s been ‘tasered’ himself, more than
>>50 times
Is this the kind of masochistic lunatic who should be selling weaponry to the “peacekeepers”? Sheesh.
Mr. Mustard and framitz –
OK, I guess we should just get an M60 and shoot them all, right?
Judgment day is coming, and we will be battling flying frying pans…cant they at least make it look scary?
>>OK, I guess we should just get an M60 and
>>shoot them all, right?
If killing them all is the goal, that would be the honest way to do it.
In the alternative, the government might consider working to ameliorate the conditions that led to rioting in the first place.
Haha… that’s hilarious.
You excuse the rioters’ motives for rioting, yet you say that the government should only be able to kill them, not momentarily disable them. What a twisted sense of morality you have, Mr. Mustard.
Make them wiggle!
From the announcement: “The mini-flying saucer like drone will fire Taser stun rounds”
This statement implies that it can fire multiple Taser rounds similar to the XREP self-contained, wireless Taser projectiles. See: http://www2.taser.com/products/law/Pages/XREP.aspx
If it could fire multiple XREP rounds, it could probably also be adapted to fire multiple shotgun rounds as well.
Yikes!
I would imagine that people might even provoke the use of these things just to capture some. Rig your own remote control, and you can go after the cops, or anyone else you want.
Think of the power you could wield if you sent one of these things after a politician with a camera instead of a Taser as its main weapon.
Mister Mustard – I guess it really is okay to kill them rather than waterboard them huh?
Nice line of thinking…
At least I didn’t suggest killing them.
steve-o
3 David. I think you meant to indicate that, moments after the taser was fired, the cop was kneeling on the guy’s neck. Next you’ll be banning negotiations as causing death because it also seems somehow to be associated.
So now let’s prohibit all physical contact by all police because of this death as you would ban tasering.
You know politics is involved here when critics never offer the alternative of turning down the power on a Taser.
I believe the reason for calls to ban the taser is because a group of cops pounding someone out with bloodied nightsticks fits much better with the ever-wishful lefty image of authority.
RBG
That thing won’t stay in the air long after hit someone. It would hit someone in a crowd. The others could just pull on the wires to bring down.
>>Mister Mustard – I guess it really is okay
>>to kill them rather than waterboard them huh?
I didn’t say that, Stever. I said that IF THE GOAL IS TO KILL THEM (and make no mistake, tasers fired from the sky ARE going to kill, like when they lodge in someone’s brain), then why fuck around with tasers?
>>You excuse the rioters’ motives for rioting,
>>yet you say that the government should only
>>be able to kill them, not momentarily disable
>>them.
No, no, and no, my little color wheel. I was suggesting that AS A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE, governments might want to address rioters-to-be’s complaints before things get to the riot stage.
Once the riot is underway, I guess our state-of-the-art law enforcement technologies only afford the opportunity to kill them, either with tasers to be head (which is where anything fired from the sky is likely to hit), or with a burst of .40-caliber hollowpoints. And as I said to Steverino, if the goal is to kill them, why fuck around with tasers to the brain? Expensive, ineffective, and just plain stupid. Do you suppose one of Dick Cheney’s companies has invested in this technology?
Frank and Steve… You both know what Mister Mustard said… why do you pretend otherwise… I know you dissagree with him, but why pretend you do not know what he said. As to the topic of tasers, Taser International says effective alternative to a real gun yet police departments treat it as a tool similar to batons. That is quite a difference in use.
John S
Exactly #24. At first it was a tool to be used in place of a gun, now they are used on handcuffed people who don’t “comply” fast enough, on children, pregnant women who won’t sign a ticket, etc. Cops need to be forced to ease off on the use of their little torture devices.
Who needs a gun to bring one of theses things down. Slingshot. Probably wouldn’t need anything as dangerous as a steel ball bearing either. 25 cent gum machine super ball should wreck the shabby propeller in something that lightweight
Now let’s give them some self-defense programming…