CTV - Police do not carry out routine tests on Taser guns... Engineering firm Intertek tested the two weapons fired during the Bagnell incident. Their research found while one Taser performed within a normal electrical output, the other was 30 times higher. ... Professor William Dunford of UBC's electrical engineering department was surprised to learn that police don't regularly check their Tasers. "It's reasonable that testing be done once a month or once a week, whatever is appropriate," Dunford said. "You look at how these things fail -- that's the whole engineering method." [LINK]
Here's my favorite extract from the above article:
"It means that police officers are unaware of the true electrical output of what has proven to be a lethal weapon."
Taser's non-PR and less-than-Legal departments may wish to follow-up with CTV News at 1-900-U-Silly-Twits. Yeah, good luck with that.
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