gizmodo.com— Ok, we know bad things can happen when the general public use tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No... really?
Apr 23, 2008View in Crawl 4
So why in the flying f**k are we still allowing cops to carry lasers? Guns for dangerous situations, nightsticks for abusing power. Tasers don't factor into it.
Wow, cops get f**king lasers now? Awsome! To answer your question, because they are far safer than night sticks. I dont care what little stories you find on digg.
What happened to the good old days when if somebody was mouthing off to a cop they'd just get cracked in the face with a nightstick. It would certainly save them battery costs.
Wow... I am utterly amazed at the recursive, almost cannibalistic nature of Digg and the major blogs of the internet which regularly get their posts on to the front page. Let me explain:The Hamilton Spectator originally writes an article on the story, and it gets submitted to Digg by specspec (connected to the newspaper itself?) 4 days ago (<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Taser_shock_triggers_fir">http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Taser_shock_triggers_fir</a> ...Yesterday, Noah Shachtman Gizmodo's decides to search through Digg for taser stories (most likely with "taser", "all stories", "by date", as I do sporadically), as tasers are relevant to his blog on national security.As DANGERROOM is a part of the Wired blog network, Gizmodo writer Kit Eaton finds it and decides that as a weird and very Diggable (ZOMG, PANTS ON FIRE!) story that's bound to get him a bunch of page hits (and for him money), he comments on it and provides a link.Then, Digg star lekahe, who reads Gawker blogs as does about half of Digg users, submits this Gizmodo article and lets her Digg stardom (her 49 front-paged submissions and the political networking that made them possible) garner a flurry of blind fannish Diggs that float her story to to the front page.What am I trying to say? I don't know.
flashback99Apr 24, 2008
but instead you wrote this dire explanation of your thought process.
Closed AccountApr 24, 2008
Which means he must be a cop...or is a good candidate to be one.
Closed AccountApr 24, 2008
OMG, what has this country become? fascist.
tenzyApr 24, 2008
Don't braize me bro!
wexmajorApr 24, 2008
So why in the flying f**k are we still allowing cops to carry lasers? Guns for dangerous situations, nightsticks for abusing power. Tasers don't factor into it.
Closed AccountApr 24, 2008
Wow, cops get f**king lasers now? Awsome! To answer your question, because they are far safer than night sticks. I dont care what little stories you find on digg.
thisistheendApr 24, 2008
What happened to the good old days when if somebody was mouthing off to a cop they'd just get cracked in the face with a nightstick. It would certainly save them battery costs.
derangedpenguinApr 25, 2008
OMG Bro you set my pants on fire! Still better than getting a .40 or .45 slug through the heart.
asherchangApr 25, 2008
Wow... I am utterly amazed at the recursive, almost cannibalistic nature of Digg and the major blogs of the internet which regularly get their posts on to the front page. Let me explain:The Hamilton Spectator originally writes an article on the story, and it gets submitted to Digg by specspec (connected to the newspaper itself?) 4 days ago (<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Taser_shock_triggers_fir">http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Taser_shock_triggers_fir</a> ...Yesterday, Noah Shachtman Gizmodo's decides to search through Digg for taser stories (most likely with "taser", "all stories", "by date", as I do sporadically), as tasers are relevant to his blog on national security.As DANGERROOM is a part of the Wired blog network, Gizmodo writer Kit Eaton finds it and decides that as a weird and very Diggable (ZOMG, PANTS ON FIRE!) story that's bound to get him a bunch of page hits (and for him money), he comments on it and provides a link.Then, Digg star lekahe, who reads Gawker blogs as does about half of Digg users, submits this Gizmodo article and lets her Digg stardom (her 49 front-paged submissions and the political networking that made them possible) garner a flurry of blind fannish Diggs that float her story to to the front page.What am I trying to say? I don't know.