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Author Topic: Forget Tupperware; it's Taser-party time
M. Spector
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posted 05 January 2008 10:15 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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On the coffee table, Shafman spreads out Taser's C2 "personal protector" weapons that the company is marketing to the public. It doesn't take long before the women are lined up, whooping as they take turns blasting at a metallic target.

"C'mon!" she said. "Give it a shot."

Shafman isn't an employee for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International. She's an independent entrepreneur selling Tasers the way her mother's generation sold plastic food-storage containers.

As a single woman who lives alone, she said she's the perfect pitchwoman for Taser as it makes a renewed push to sell weapons to families.

The company agrees. Taser officials like Shafman's homespun sales tactics so much they planned a living-room set at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and asked Shafman to hold a Taser party for buyers and dealers....

Shafman said she has sold about 30 guns a month at $349.99 since her first Taser party Oct. 15. She doesn't get a commission from Taser. Instead, Shafman said she gets a discounted dealer rate for the units and keeps the difference.

Though it packs the same electric punch, the C2 — launched in August — is smaller than the bulky personal stun guns Taser developed years ago, and its sleek exterior makes it look more like an electric razor than a weapon. They are legal in every state but New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan, Wisconsin, Hawaii and Washington, D.C.

Shafman said many of her customers love that the C2 is small enough to fit in their purses and comes in a variety of colors. When it comes to choosing weapons, she said, a lot of women want them in pink.


Taser International - a Family Company

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eau
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posted 05 January 2008 10:31 PM      Profile for eau        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This is so wrong at every level. I had to respond because I know,as you do, it is going to be a short time until in addition to child deaths in gun accidents, we will have child deaths from taser incidents.

Its every childs dream to have a Star Wars taser just like on TV.


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Doug
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posted 05 January 2008 11:36 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I do hope that nobody gets their new taser mixed up with what they bought at a sex toy party.
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Tommy_Paine
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posted 06 January 2008 07:21 AM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
At least not unintentionally.
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Doug
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posted 07 January 2008 06:47 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This had to have been inevitable:

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You know what a bother it is to carry both your MP3 music player and your Taser gun?

Worry no more.

Today at CES, Taser International introduced the Taser MPH -- the first combination hand-held music player and Taser.

The player, which has a 1-GB capacity that can hold about 150 songs, is embedded in a holster that slips on your belt. Feel the need to zap someone and you can unholster the Taser, use the built-in laser pointer to aim, and blam -- a couple of darts carrying 50,000 volts hits your victim.

And you don't have to miss a beat.


http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2008/01/gadget-of-the-d.html


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M. Spector
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posted 25 January 2008 10:50 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tupperware and Tasers
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BetterRed
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posted 26 January 2008 03:12 PM      Profile for BetterRed     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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You know what a bother it is to carry both your MP3 music player and your Taser gun?
Worry no more.

Today at CES, Taser International introduced the Taser MPH -- the first combination hand-held music player and Taser.

The player, which has a 1-GB capacity that can hold about 150 songs, is embedded in a holster that slips on your belt. Feel the need to zap someone and you can unholster the Taser, use the built-in laser pointer to aim, and blam -- a couple of darts carrying 50,000 volts hits your victim.

And you don't have to miss a beat.



Im speechless...
Consumerism meets the police state?
oh and cops can also listen to Metallica's "ride the lighnting" while blasting immigrants and "undesirables"?>

Fuck
this
world


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abnormal
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posted 26 January 2008 03:34 PM      Profile for abnormal   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What's the big deal? There are inumerable videos out there showing you how to convert a disposable camera into the equivalent of a taser.

If you want nasty "personal defense weapons" all you have to do is look in your cupboards. I think I'd rather be tasered than have oven cleaner sprayed in my eyes. The latter is a lot more permanent.


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