In fact, many taser training and demonstrations are accomplished with carefully applied alligator clips attached to the idiots' lower torso and one ankle.
Talk about "avoiding the chest"... ...Taser International's highly FAKE demonstration and training protocols have been avoiding the chest for many years. Coincidence? LOL. And Taser International has been quoting these FAKE demonstration and training hits as an indicator of safety. If you've been fooled, then look at who has been playing you like a trumpet.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the taser darts used in training, and probably in many studies, have a penetration depth about 40% shorter (0.25 vice 0.40 inch) than those used on the street. It probably doesn't matter for all those FAKE back hits, but if any chest hit studies used training cartridges and failed to highlight this difference, and depending who was involved in the study and in supplying them with cartridges, then it would not be unreasonable to wonder if such lack of complete details was intentional.
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I have preciously wondered about those "training cartridges", as you know. Now that you [great work!] uncovered a difference in the length of the probes for "training" vs. "Real World" taser cartridges, isn't it just as likely that the manufacturer may have also added some "electrical tweaks" to the training cartridges to avoid injuries and death? A small "resistor" in the training cartridge would be easy to hide. There are other possible mechanisms which will step-down an electrical charge.
If, as a manufacturer, you have known from the start that your stun gun was extremely dangerous and could cause death, as I strongly believe the folks in Scottsdale AZ have, I doubt that tweaking the electrical properties of the training cartridge would violate any ethics they currently have or may have ever had.
The only way I could imagine they could effectively and reliably reduce the output from a taser training cartridge would be to provide a parallel spark gap in the cartridge itself. Such a parallel spark gap might be as subtle as what appear to be a pair of stray wires pointed towards each other.
So, if any investigators wish to look into this possibility, that's what they need to be looking for. If they weren't looking for it, they could miss it.
But this is just speculation...
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