Taser Inventor Dies at 88

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Jack Cover, 88, Physicist Who Invented the Taser Stun Gun, Dies
By BRUCE WEBER
Cover, the physicist who invented the Taser
stun gun, the police weapon that subdues its targets with jolts of electricity, died Feb. 7 in Mission Viejo, Calif. He was 88 and lived in San Clemente, Calif. The cause was pneumonia brought on by Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Ginny. The scientific inspiration, Ms. Cover said, was a newspaper article about a man who had inadvertently walked into an electrified fence and survived, though he was temporarily immobilized. “When he read that had happened, he knew an electric current could be used without danger,” Ms. Cover said.

Mr. Cover named his invention as a tribute to another inspiration, the Tom Swift science fiction novels he read as a child, one of which was “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.” He created an acronym from “Thomas Swift Electric Rifle,” adding the “A,” he explained to The Washington Post in 1976, “because we got tired of answering the phone ‘T.S.E.R.’ ”
 

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Probably died from laughing at all the hilarious TASER videos shot by cops and others...oh SHIT - don't tase me NJ!
AHHHHHH JEESUS!!! FUFUUUUFUUCCKKKKK!! AWWWWW BY BALLS ARE FRYING TURN IF OFFFFF!!!!!

(that's gonna leave a mark!)
 

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Some guy I used to know would send his friends to the store for something and then lock the door. When they got back they'd say the doors locks, he'd put the tazer to the knob and say try in now. I think I almost died when I saw him do this but its not really that funny when you think about it, ................. Yeah it is :haha:. I always visited him with a pair of deer skin gloves after that.
 

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“When he read that had happened, he knew an electric current could be used without danger,” Ms. Cover said.

The relatives of the 20 people killed in Canada with Tasers might disagree.

CBC News Interactive: Canada - Tasers

Gee Vince, you can be such a buzz kill. :tongue:

FWIW: I think the original model invented by Dr. Cover was a lot less powerful than those used in recent years.
 

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Gee Vince, you can be such a buzz kill. :tongue:

FWIW: I think the original model invented by Dr. Cover was a lot less powerful than those used in recent years.
Ever see the vid of the poor crazy guy they tased to death in the Vancouver airport? Shocking.
 

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I was tas ered onc e. It had abs o l u tely no effe ct at all u pon me and I w a s gl ad they did it so ra pidl y.



Tasering~~if done properly can reheat your breakfast.