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Taser dart pierces skull and spikes brain
New Scientist – Two research papers published this week throw further light on the health risks of the Taser stun gun. This striking image [see article] shows the central issue examined in one of the papers: what happens when one of the two barbed darts fired by a police Taser struck a 27-year-old man on the side of the head. Although Isabel Le Blanc-Louvry and colleagues at the department of forensic medicine at Rouen University Hospital in France do not reveal when or where this occured, they say the victim had been drunk and resisted police requests for his ID. The police fired the pneumatically powered Taser to incapacitate and subdue him – but somehow nobody noticed a dart remained stuck in his head, until he later went to hospital complaining of a persistent headache. Read article
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