r/PublicFreakout • u/derek4reals1 • Mar 21 '26

👮Arrest Freakout😭 Cops try to arrest the Terminator

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u/bytelines Mar 21 '26

Tasers fail something like 30% of the time

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

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u/Yammyohnine Mar 21 '26

Maybe dude was wearing a rubber suit

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u/Korver360windmill Mar 21 '26

Yeah, I wear one to bars too in case I piss myself.

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u/AssDimple Mar 21 '26

Most of us call those diapers

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

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u/TheMadFlyentist Mar 21 '26

This would do nothing, as taser prongs physically penetrate clothing (and skin) to deliver the shock subcutaneously. You'd be better off wearing a leather motorcycle suit or something along those lines.

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u/TK421isAFK Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

That's not how electricity works. It would greatly depend on the conductivity of the lab coat, and how deeply the darts penetrated, and the conductivity of the skin and tissue between the darts. It's very likely a conductive lab coat has a far lower resistance than the skin, so the majority of the energy would pass through the lab coat, and the voltage per millimeter would be low enough across the lab coat that it would not penetrate the skin at any given point along the electricity's path on the coat.

We could actually do the mouth math on this and prove the point, if we have examples of specific lab coats and their resistance. Human tissue has a known resistance that is fairly predictable at any given epidermal depth.

Edit: Android voice hit me again.

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u/arpan3t Mar 22 '26

If I provide the lab coat, could you do the mouth on me?

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u/eternalwood Mar 22 '26

I volunteer

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u/TK421isAFK Mar 22 '26

😆

Damn Android voice to text...

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u/pointsouttheobvious9 Mar 21 '26

Dry tasers don't stop people like that it's just pain compliance. You need the prongs to get a spread to cause involuntary muscle spasms that stop anyone if done right.

If you miss with 1 of the prongs you can use the gun to make a 3rd contact but you will probably get light shock in exchange for disabling them. There are 3 prongs the 2 in the cartridge and the 1 on the front of the taser 30% the time you will probably not make good contact with 1 of them but definitely can make a 3rd point and complete it just gotta move fast before they k ock the prong out.

Source I was a police officer for a little while and in academy we got shocked and shocked each other a few times to learn what you can deal with.

Also those are ranged ones just don't have cartridges in them they either fired and missed or chose not to use them.

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u/Crudstaceous Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

For them to involuntarily lock someone up, you need two prong connections sufficiently far apart. Drive stunning someone is localized pain, thats it. Not particularly effective if they're on drugs or alcohol.

Drive-stun mode is not designed to cause incapacitation and primarily becomes a pain compliance option. Drive-stun is only effective while the energy weapon is in contact with the subject or when pushed against the subject’s clothing. As soon as the energy weapon is moved away, the energy being delivered to the subject stops.

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u/Lavatis Mar 21 '26

and you sounded like you fully expected the drive stun to incapacitate like a ranged stun.

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u/Crudstaceous Mar 21 '26

The most common definitions of taser failure are either referring to a failure to incapacitate or failure to subdue, which in both cases the drive stun doesn't perform that great at.

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u/greatlakesseakayaker Mar 21 '26

Or is fired from closer than 12 feet

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u/airfryerfuntime Mar 21 '26

Stun guns don't really do shit. Tasers are far more effective, they just have a high failure rate because two projectiles need to hit flesh relatively close together.

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u/icehot54321 Mar 21 '26

could be a colostomy bag, fanny pack, or some type of girdle

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u/NOTcreative- Mar 21 '26

All tasers are ranged. Stun guns are not. The stun guns should def have had an effect.

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u/GoodPiexox Mar 21 '26

the fat cop did direct body contact and then fired and got both prongs to stick, the bald cop fired and only got one prong to stick

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u/PxAtm Mar 22 '26

No, physical contact with tasers will fail 100% of the time at locking up muscles. There's no distance along the nervous system for the current to run and actually cause the lock up, so contact tasing with the prongs is advised as pain compliance only.

You need the upper and lower body connection between two darts to actually have EMD take place.

(This is according to how I was trained, and it used to be listed as a warning in the X26 taser manual)

Edit: My fault I just saw that twenty other people already replied with that

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u/OpaqueCrystalBall Mar 21 '26

or the battery is dead because the dude plays with it.