hosted.ap.org — In a confrontation captured on videotape, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor. Now William Lewis says his baby girl suffers from head trauma because she was dropped.
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fhscomtech3Aug 15, 2007
No. It would not heat up. The danger of 12 V batteries has little to do with danger of shock, this is a huge misconception, and very unreasonable. Resistance of skin generally varies from 5000 ohms for wet to 500,000 ohm for dry skin. 12 V across 5000 ohms yields 2.4mA of current, just above the threshold of sensation. The heat generated is I^2*R, equal to 70 microwatts of heat. This is NOT enough to cause a heating sensation. So in summary, if you are dripping sweaty, and you have very sensitve hands or other body parts, you may feel a sensation. But it will not hurt, and it will not heat up.
navyseel616616Aug 15, 2007
The man had a baby with him, they didn't know if she was his or he was trying to steal her, it would be better to taser him than to have him make off with someone's child
bluenashAug 15, 2007
I'd sue 'em so hard by the time I was done it would be my name on the hospital.
publiclurkerAug 16, 2007
To sum it up in the most polite manor that you deserve, you are a clueless idiot! Both of our children were delivered in a hospital with very nice birthing suites. While we had the kids with us in the room most of the time, there was always the option to have the nurses in the front room look after them whenever there is a need for sleep, etc. Not to mention the fact that a woman recovering form a C-Section would be in no state to prevent someone from taking their newborn. One only need to look at the recent reports of abducted children to know that even with the current security protocols to realize that reality is far diferent from the dream world that you live in.
travistubbsAug 16, 2007
Can I go one week, just ONE WEEK, without some kind of horrible story coming out of this state?? Times like this just make me wish I wasn't a Houstonian or a Texan.
varunb007Aug 16, 2007
You have a hard time with social etiquette, don't you? As a Biomedical/Chemical Engineer, I had my fair share of physics but most of the electrical stuff is not exactly fresh in my memory after all these years, which is why I said I'm guessing. Anyway, I figure a human being is not a wire or whatever you find on a circuit board. When a person gets electricity passed through them, it doesn't just go from point A to point B. It's going to go all over the place due to different "resistances" of different structures in the body such as bone or tissue. Thus, it can manage to make its way to the baby.
ceryleAug 20, 2007
you only fear "socialised" health care cos your government has told you to. In Aus, we have medicare - it means that the government pays all your hospital bills if you go in as a public patient, the majority of your doctor visits (some doctors charge a small gap), and the majority of your medication costs. I had a baby last year, and didn't pay a cent - from the initial doctor visit telling me I was pregnant all the way through to the birth and the post-natal care (I got an infection, and ended up back in hospital for another week). That's what socialised health care does for you.
onlytruthAug 22, 2007
that comment was the bomb