Gaawwddd.... the visual I got from this almost made me pee my pants... PRICELESS!!

Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this:

Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized taser. The effects of the taser were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety…??

WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home.

I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing!

I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right?

There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.

I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and taser in another.

The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5’ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’

What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best…? I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, ‘don’t do it dipshit,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and . . . HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!!

I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs?

The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an atempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a taser, one note of
caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself!
You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor. A three second burst would be considered conservative?

SON-OF-A-B----, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.

My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocaine, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparrently I shit myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I’m still looking for my nuts and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!!

P. S. My wife loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!

‘If you think Education is difficult, try being stupid.’

OMG, that was hilarious. I think I may have shit myself just reading this!
Reps for making me laugh until it hurt. :smiley:

ouch, sounds like the guy who tried to test his dog invisible fence collar.
he strapped it around his thigh and went running across the fence.
the correction shock locked his leg, so he fell across the boundary wire, and the collar kept shocking him.

Yet our basset would sit at the edge of the correction boundary for the invisible fence and we could watch her twitching when the collar shocked. Then when the battery was dead, she ran the neighborhood.

I do feel if you are going to use a “non-lethal” combat or restraint devices, you should have it used on you, at least once. This goes for MACE, StunGuns, or sonic devices.

I have been tased several times, (not by a police taser because of restraint)
I worked on a farm and have grabbed my share of electric fences, I have even shocked my self with a genuine taser several times while working on the circuit inside for a friend who’s taser was malfunctioning.

Thanks for the reps, Mark! :smiley:

I was crying laughing when I read this at work… just TOO good not to share!!

LoL this is hilarious. Im pretty sure there’s some sort of electricity built up mechanism in that little thing. But yes, tasers hurt like hell. Hell, any sort of electricity through your body hurts like hell (anyone who stuck a fork in the outlet when they were young can attest to this lol)

Too funny. I got a very good laugh out of this. I have a stun gun. I think I wont try using it on myself.

omg i damn near pissed myself LMFAO

OH S*****!!!, lol

That was CLASSIC!! reps for that one…

yeah electricity works for appliances, not the human body..I work w/ computers and USED to fix CRT monitors..operative word being USED..I was working on an iMac(the older colorful ones) and made the mistake of reaching over while it was still plugged in. All I remember is ending up on the other side of the room and my co-worker smacking me upside the head..

and feeling reeeally numb..like morphene numb..woke up refreshed, lol

Great story tiggerbear
When i was in highschool, i bought a 10,000 volt stungun from a friend just cause i thought it was soooo cool to have. Stupid guys that me and my friends were, we use to stun each other for 5 secs when we lost a bet. I think we wore out 2 nine volt batteries before we wised-up.
Cant even imagine a 100,000 volt stun.

Pepper spray to the face was the worst though. tear gas wasnt that bad imho.
Ahh the stupidity of youth.:slight_smile: Good times!

Tigger - thanks so much for that! Where can i get one to use on my mom?

mom, but then you might use it on your H to get his butt moving?

they are pretty easy to find on the internet-
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Forget him, Woof… he’s already proven himself unworthy!

I know he is unworthy. but she could get him moving pretty quickly with a properly applied shock to the system.

Back in the day when I was an investor in TASR, someone passed that story on to me. I laughed so hard until I cried. For the fun of it, I read through it again, and had the same effect.

Whoever wrote that should definitely consider a side career as an comedy author.

There’s a reason why the military and municipal police have one person shooting the taser while two others are at the sides of the victim. It’ll make you drop before you even know what hit you. I can’t imagine what would happen if I tried to tase myself.

Well, yes I can…:stuck_out_tongue: