Saturday, September 23, 2006

Stun guns: weapon or risk? / The Age, 23 Sep 2006

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Kenneth Nguyen
"A confidential Alfred hospital analysis has found that Tasers expose subjects to "immediate risks and potentially fatal dangers", including fractures or head injuries when victims collapse, barb injuries and the potential to disrupt heart pacemakers. In 2004, surgeons from Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth Hospital struggled to save a man's eye after it was hit by a barb. With Taser use in Victoria limited, assessing its record overseas and interstate is complex."