re: How can someone be "immune" to a taser?

We used to have one and zapped each other regularly. You get used to the feeling after a while, but it still initially locks you up

First how it works.

A tazer fires two probes attached to wires (leads). As the probes fly through the air they separate. It takes both probes coming into contact with skin to complete the circuit and "taze" the subject. If one probes does not contact skin the circuit isn't completed and nothing happens.

So this occurs often:

1) one or both probes hangs up in clothing and fails to contact body and complete circuit.

2) one probe misses body and fails to make contact.

Also, inmates and convicted felons have learned to raise their arms above their shoulders right before the tazer hits and allow the tensing up of their muscles to force their arms down across the probes and leads dislodging the probe or breaking the lead.



Due to the first two reasons.....is why you typically draw your gun instead of your tazer when someone has a weapon.

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Most of the stories you hear about people powering through the Taser are because they didn't get good strikes or full contact. There is also a Marketing Factor involved. The company sells the thing as being a death ray and has made Billions with a B on that story. Fact is that it is a machine. I have seen them fail to fire, fail to shock, barbs not penetrate and other factors. It's a tool like any other. 

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I think this is the answer. I'm sure some of the cops here could confirm this.

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I'm rolling on the floor laughing at all these responses. It's taking me a long to respond bc I cannot stop laughing. No, there is no such thing as a built up resistance to electricity entering your body and there is no immunity to it. 

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I agree. There's no such thing as an immunity to electricity.

Also. Deployments at close range cause the barbs to impact very close together. They fly at an angle to each other and it takes several feet for them to separate. The farther they are apart, the more muscles the charge effects as it travels between the barbs. Conversely, the closer the barbs are together, the less muscles it effects.

Why can't someone not be phased by something?

OC or pepper spray do very very little to me. I can take a direct spray and just basically shrug it off.

So yes, there are people that it does nothing to. There aren't lots of people like that but it does occur

Taser- slow-mo- YT

Some don't realize tasers basically fire fishhook a into people that penetrate the skin. A doctor usually removes them at the scene of if it happens in police custody at the station.

Heavy clothing can interfere, and as some said, hard fat can make skin penetration more difficult

Pepper spray isn't effective to something like 5% of people. It burns me a little bit, but the coughing is the only really bad part that lasts. It's kind of like when you get that feeling in your throat that makes you cough

If I had to guess, I would say loose fitting clothing where the prongs were in his shirt but not making contact with his skin.

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Like i said in another thread last week, I was hit by a police taser without the prongs/wires. The juice was the same, just no deeper penetration under the skin. It only burnt my skin some and pissed me off. My tolerance for pain is pretty unreal like a lot of people. one of my other buddies had the same effects as me and he was hit in the neck with the taser, three other friends were all pretty much shut down on the spot though.

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