Tazer for losers..

[peasea]

Shoot them all I say!

Who? The cops?

[Bass]

Kevlar is a synthetic material known as a polymer. A polymer is a chain made of many similar molecular groups, known as monomers, that are bonded together. In the case of Kevlar, it is a carbon polymer in a fibre. Not all carbon fibres are graphite, kevlar is simply one type of carbon fibre. Each Kevlar segment or monomer is a chemical unit C14H10N2O2, with the carbon atoms forming two linked carbon rings. It is a P type carrier.

From the Reference Book for Composites Technology By Stuart M. Lee

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Interesting.
My Chemical Engineering professors are definitely with Pixie on this one.
I would agree that the polymer's backbone is often a carbon chain of some sort, but to call it a fibre is stretching things a bit. Any conventional use of the words carbon fibre, usually involves graphite.
But to bring this back a little - if you wanted to protect yourself from a Tazer, wouldn't a conductive suit be better than an insulating one. As was suggested earlier in this thread, wouldn't that bring the Farraday effect into play so that you would be effectively wearing a Farraday cage as the man (Angusdog) suggested?

[Patrick]

But to bring this back a little - if you wanted to protect yourself from a Tazer, wouldn't a conductive suit be better than an insulating one. As was suggested earlier in this thread, wouldn't that bring the Farraday effect into play so that you would be effectively wearing a Farraday cage as the man (Angusdog) suggested?

Wear what you like... if the Tazer doesn't work on ya, a Glock or Bushmaster then will...

[avgas]

But to bring this back a little - if you wanted to protect yourself from a Tazer, wouldn't a conductive suit be better than an insulating one. As was suggested earlier in this thread, wouldn't that bring the Farraday effect into play so that you would be effectively wearing a Farraday cage as the man (Angusdog) suggested?

Um, no....not if you wanted to move comfortably. Seen an astronaut suit - you get the idea.
Farraday cages are an excellent concept (see car electro shock treatment), but only for rigid things.
Unless you like to grease up your body with silicon before putting on a big suit.

[mstriumph]

I think the police should only be armed with wit and charm.
Alo alo alo whats goin on 'ere then?
G'day cobber what the problem mate?
Kia ora bro, who been messing with your shit?

rof eyes streaming with mirth .......and that's GOTTA be preferable to pepper spray ....

mebbe we should get you to show the police how to render someone helpless with a coupla well-chosen lines?

[mstriumph]

Tazers for cops? Hell no. They shouldnt even have pepper spray. And radars. and lazers.

well - DEFINATELY not the last two ........

[terbang]

Wear what you like... if the Tazer doesn't work on ya, a Glock or Bushmaster then will...

Sums it all up really. How about not giving them an excuse to use something on you in the first place. Its called behaving yourself.

[Bass]

Um, no....not if you wanted to move comfortably. Seen an astronaut suit - you get the idea.
Farraday cages are an excellent concept (see car electro shock treatment), but only for rigid things.
Unless you like to grease up your body with silicon before putting on a big suit.

I beg to disagree.
To be a technical pedant for a moment, my understanding is that the material only needs to be conductive to work. So carbon fibre might do it - foil, as the man suggested might be enough provided it was backed with something to keep the electrodes out of your hide.
A faraday cage does not have to be rigid. It does not even have to have an insulated backing because the charge passes around the outside.
This is why aircraft are hit by lightning surprisingly often and the passengers are completely unaware of it

[mstriumph]

Sums it all up really. How about not giving them an excuse to use something on you in the first place. Its called behaving yourself.

that's fine and mostly accurate -
but there are the odd occasions when the police either misjudge the situation or over-react ..... adrenaline does funny things

-i'm thinking specifically about that fellow all over last night's news here [on the apec conference] who ended up face down on the pavement in sydney under a handful of australia's finest IN FRONT of his 11 yr old son, for incautious crossing of the road to buy his lunch ..... doubtful whether the boy would have found it less traumatic to see his father tazered rather than thugged up by more traditional means?

[peasea]

that's fine and mostly accurate -
but there are the odd occasions when the police either misjudge the situation or over-react ..... adrenaline does funny things

-i'm thinking specifically about that fellow all over last night's news here [on the apec conference] who ended up face down on the pavement in sydney under a handful of australia's finest IN FRONT of his 11 yr old son, for incautious crossing of the road to buy his lunch ..... doubtful whether the boy would have found it less traumatic to see his father tazered rather than thugged up by more traditional means?

I'll say nothing, coz I'm behaving myself.

[Skyryder]

I'll say nothing, coz I'm behaving myself.

I've misbehaved all my life and never been tazored once.

Skyryder

[scumdog]

Sums it all up really. How about not giving them an excuse to use something on you in the first place. Its called behaving yourself.

Must spread reputation....

True, I ain't shot nobody who never needed it in the first place

[Edbear]

Sums it all up really. How about not giving them an excuse to use something on you in the first place. Its called behaving yourself.

What a novel idea...!!!!

[Patrick]

-i'm thinking specifically about that fellow all over last night's news here [on the apec conference]

Can't speak for the Ozzie coppers... they've been bent for years...

I'll say nothing, coz I'm behaving myself.

Huh? No shooting???

[mstriumph]

I've misbehaved all my life and never been tazored once.

Skyryder

yeah - me too/ me either .............. but that's prolly only because there's no Scummie in the vicinity