a value-Benefit Analysis of Getting the Shit Tasered Out of You at CES [Bad Ideas]

Live Taser demos! Easily one of my favorite parts of CES. But is getting Tasered worth it? You do walk away with this Taser hat and commemorative coin! Then again, well, here’s the release you sign. Gulp.

That font’s pretty small, so let me call out the various salient bits:

Any use of force, physical exertion, capture, control, restraint, or incapacitation involves risks that somebody may get hurt or die.

Unintential Deployment Hazard. Unintentional ECD [Ed: Electronic Control Device] activation could bring about death or serious injury to the User, force recipient, and others.

Hazardous Substances. The ECD contains components that contain chemicals known to the State of California and others to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Do not disassemble.

Adverse physiologic or metabolic effects may increase risk of death or serious injury.

Incapacitation, Falling, and Startle Hazard. ECD use could cause muscular contraction, Neuro Muscular Incapacitation (” NMI” ), startling, and falling, that could lead to death or serious injury.

Fracture to bone, including compression fracture to vertebrae, may occur.

And that’s just the first page! The second is more of an identical, plus the same old about the way to’t sue whenever you’re injured and your family can’t sue when you die. Oh, and something about permanent scarring and puncturing of organs.

But hey, nice hat bro!

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