I got tased tonight!

[walton6467]

As part of the Clarksville Citizen's Police Academy, the CPD gives a presentation and a demonstration of non-lethal force. The center piece of this demo was the taser. Seven of us, four men, three women all took a standard five second "ride" from a police issue Taser X3.

I have to say, it was an experience I hope to never repeat.

YouTube - Clarksville Citizen's Police Academy - Being Tazed

[Erik88]

I'll take your word for it

[Guest oldsmobile98]

I might try that if I ever get the opportunity. I know a few people that would like to press the button for me.

[vontar]

I was expecting something like this

YouTube - Soldier turns into Chewbacca when hit with a Taser

We might have to send you back for round 2

[TGO David]

You kind of seemed to like it.

[gregintenn]

Do you shoot each other with your service pistols too?

[TGO David]

Do you shoot each other with your service pistols too?

The OP isn't a LEO from what I gather. He was a participant in the citizen's police academy. This isn't an unusual event at these courses from what I've seen and heard.

[Guest Jamie]

Citizen's police academy... Law Enforcement's way of talking people into letting them tase them, and making 'em think it was a good idea.

Walton, when is "Fun with Pepper Spray" night?

[Guest mustangdave]

LOL...ride the LIGHTNING...no thanks

[LagerHead]

I hope that never happens to me. Ouch.

[Guest tnxdshooter]

Sometimes I wonder about the reasoning behind people wanting to do this.

[Punisher84]

Well officers and security have to be tased to carry them. I guess if you're just curious to see what it feels like knock yourself out. It sucks but I'd rather be tased than pepper sprayed personally. I HATE being sprayed!

[Guest Jamie]

Get sprayed often enough and you don't even notice the stuff. Electricity, on the other hand, I don't think you can develop an immunity to.

[Chucktshoes]

You sure? I recently read a story involving a mouse where a guy was tased and hit with pepper spray to no effect.

[walton6467]

To clarify, I'm not a LEO, just a citizen interested in what police work is about. And yes, as people have noted, its hilarious to the cops that people would VOLUNTEER for this treatment. For me, I suppose it was a macho thing. I've been pepper sprayed by accident before, now I've been tased. I will pass on being shot.

[JAB]

Get sprayed often enough and you don't even notice the stuff. Electricity, on the other hand, I don't think you can develop an immunity to.

A friend of mine who used to work night security at the Knoxville Zoo (I think they were special deputies back then) knew a regular officer who would either spray himself a little or spray a little pepper spray on his fingers and wipe it on his eyelids (can't recall which, exactly) every night before going to bed so that (he believed, at least) he would be 'innoculated' to it in case he ever caught 'splashover' or someone sprayed him. Having had to get sprayed in order to carry it for his job, my buddy was basically like, "More power to him but I ain't doing it."

I have even heard that people who eat a lot of hot chiles can develop a bit of immunity to OC spray. Maybe that is why some 'experts' recommend that folks carry spray with some kind of chemical agent (tear gas, etc.) in it, as well.

When I worked at the downtown library in Knoxville, the guys who did security there were school division deputies. They told me about an incident at the Weigel's on Summit Hill (just say 'the Weigel's to most people from the area and they know exactly which one you are talking about) where an officer sprayed a person of Hispanic lineage with OC spray. Apparently, it hurt just enough to piss the guy off and he proceeded to take the can of spray away from the officer, hose him down with it (the spray had a much greater effect on the officer than on the perp) then beat the crap out of him.

Edited November 10, 2010 by JAB

[Guest TargetShooter84]

Wow.....

[ftncityfatboy]

seems like as much fun as sticking your tongue in an electrical outlet. I've been tied to a water pipe by electricity and trust me, that was no walk in the park!

[Guest Jamie]

Used to work with an officer, that everyone knew if he pulled his spray ( Freeze +P ), EVERYBODY within a certain radius was going to get at least a little... so I was pretty much resistant to the stuff withing the first month.

Tasing, from what I've seen, is dependent on your body chemistry, and how well you conduct electricity... If the current gets through, it just overrides your own nervous system. So in a way, a Taser is sort of like a bullet... it either hits the target or it don't.

Pepper sprays on the other hand attack the nerve endings themselves, so those can become immune to the stimulus with enough exposure.

Personally, I'd rather just skip the whole affair, and not have to deal with any of it.

[Chucktshoes]

I can say this about OC spray. If you are really congested to the point where a neti pot or a nose douche won't do anything you can take a paper bag, spray just the littlest squirt of oc into it and wait a moment for the aerosol to die down a bit inside the bag. Then take a small huff of it into the nose. Have paper towels handy cause everything inside those sinus cavities is going to come flooding out in a matter of seconds. Crazy, momentarily unpleasant, but highly effective.

[Guest Jamie]

... or you can just have some wise-ass co-worker spray some into the defroster ducts of your patrol car, when you run into the station to drop off paperwork.

Either one will clear that winter time sinus congestion right up.

[Punisher84]

... or you can just have some wise-ass co-worker spray some into the defroster ducts of your patrol car, when you run into the station to drop off paperwork.

Either one will clear that winter time sinus congestion right up.

Hahahahaha oh man I'd be pissed.

[Guest Jamie]

Hahahahaha oh man I'd be pissed.

Oh, don't worry... payback's a bitch. Especially in the summer, when the snakes wake up...

[Punisher84]

Oh, don't worry... payback's a bitch. Especially in the summer, when the snakes wake up...

Lmao