You know don't take this personally, but I just hate it when all people do is post some link. If you cannot bother to explain something in your own words, then please don't start a thread.
sorry man this is the first forum i've ever been on, and i hadn't read any before and thank you for not being rude about it. the thing about this story is that a man, covered in gasoline, may or may not have been ignited by a police officer's tazer. from what i know a tazer shouldn't arc, but as we all know, anything underperfect conditions can happen. the tazer is of the projectile-probe type. so the victim was hit by two harpoons connected to the tazer by wires...if that's any help.
Maj, your story seems to indicate the man in this case was covered with gasoline. Is that true? If so, the it is totally feasible that he could have been ignited by a TASER. I am sure that TASER International would take umbrage at the characterization of the darts as harpoons. There have been several cases of two officers trying to take down a violent subject, one with Mace or pepper spray, and one with either a stun gun or a TASER, and they ended up igniting the subject. They even had an epsiode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation recently on this very thing. A cop used an unapproved pepper spray and when a TASER was used, it ignited the spray's propellant.
Maj, your story seems to indicate the man in this case was covered with gasoline. Is that true? If so, the it is totally feasible that he could have been ignited by a TASER.
If he was covered by gasoline, no wonder, why he was ignited on fire just by receiving a shock from the tazer. Probably a tiny spark pass through the cables landing on him causing him to be on fire. But that doesn't mean that Tazers causes fires, it depends if you are sprayed or wet with flammable substance.
Kenosha - A man whose head caught fire when police simultaneously zapped him with pepper spray and a Taser gun during his arrest last summer faces prison time after being sentenced on a drug charge in the same incident.
Taser makes spark, suspect has flammable liquid on body, sounds like a recipe for fire to me.
the first part of this is for lordfrogenhall is pepperspray and mace even flammable? and the rest is just a question. it might be possible to ignite someone with gas on the if ur close enough for it arc just before/as it hits. or if it hits a spot soaked in gasoline and sends a current through the liquid to ignite.
it might be possible to ignite someone with gas on the if ur close enough for it arc just before/as it hits. or if it hits a spot soaked in gasoline and sends a current through the liquid to ignite.
Absolutely. Which is why there are documented cases of it happening and the TASER manual warns about it.
the basic question seems to surround around a taser and if it can ignite something. i opened a taser once (dont tell me parents :P) but wen i saw inside it had a huge transformer that turned wat i thought would be 99% of the amps into volts. this means that it has very little amps, and amps is what is necessary to ignite something so my bet is a solid no.
