The Effectiveness of a TASER on TASER Boy

An unruly Philadelphia fan recently experienced the shock of a TASER device from police after he ran onto a baseball field in New York. While many may consider the act an aggressive one – after all, he was only a 17-year-old boy, looking for a way to make YouTube – it was also an act that shouldn’t have shocked many.

Nobody needs to remind people of New York’s violent history, not only that, but what with the recent Times Square car bomb, these days no one is taking any chances when someone – even if that someone was only acting like a 17-year-old boy – decides they want to run onto a baseball field to attract attention.

Thankfully though these devices are extremely effective tools when it comes to disabling someone, which means that officers who were present at the baseball game were able to quickly stop TASER boy without utilizing brute force; brute force that could have potentially lasted much longer compared to the effectiveness of a TASER weapon.

A  TASER weapon functions by projecting two barbed wires into a victim’s body. These wires then deliver a 50,000 volt shock, which means that a person’s body is overpowered, and quickly loses control of their muscles making them immobile. Of course the effects of a self defense device are limited, which means that normal activity will soon resume after police have secured the offender.

By utilizing a TASER device, officers at the scene were able to quickly apprehend their victim. However, while he may not have presented much of a threat, in this day and age, no one is no longer looked at as an innocent bystander. No doubt TASER boy understood what would have happened, but he still went ahead and took that chance. Because of that officers quickly took him down, thus reducing the chances of an escalated scene, had they not had the assistance of their devices.

It may be a while before TASER boy decides to run onto a baseball field, or even thinks about running onto one, now that’s he’s experienced the full impact of what a TASER device can actually do.