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From: wfi@unc.UUCP (William F. Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: A new self-defense idea!
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Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 13:25:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 20 13:25:37 1985
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Summary: 


> Major disadvantes of a taser for holdups include:
>
           ...
> 2) At most, it can only control one or two people at a time.
>
> 3) Misses are more serious because of the smaller number of loads.
> 
> 4) It is useless if the target is protected behind so much as a sheet of
>   cardboard.

I just heard on Ted 'takeover' Turner's Network this morning that a 
taser was used in a holdup somewhere (sorry, I wasn't taking notes :-). 
It seems there were two holdup men; one of them held a gun on the clerk 
and the other zapped the clerk with the taser to incapacitate him. 

                                            -- Bill Ingogly