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If you thought plasticuffs were the future of restraints, well, you might still be right. But handcuff technology is also preparing to fork in a much more high-tech direction. According to some recent patents, the future of handcuffs may be shocking. Literally. Shocking you. With electricity.
Dug up by Patent Bolt, the recent patent application from Scottsdale Inventions LLC shows what seems to be a pretty well developed prototype of handcuffs that will shock the wearer into submission. The patent also allows for a blinking light or auditory warning that triggers as the shock is prepared, presumably to warn the wearer to CALM DOWN. The shocks could come for any number of reasons—too much movement, movement outside a radius, or under order of the cuff’s owner—and the cuffs would also contain EKG/EGG sensors to keep from shocking detainees a little too silly (i.e. to death).
That’s not even where it ends though, because there’s additional language describing how the cuffs could actually administer a substance “to achieve any desired result” via needles or gas. It could be anything from medication to sedatives to irritants, to who knows what else. One thing’s for sure, you won’t want to find yourself in a pair of these suckers if they hit the streets. [Patent Bolt]
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So some nut job thinks giving electric shocks to someone already detained in handcuffs makes for a good ethical practice at this time – wow!
Considering that you can’t support someone who is getting a shock and they likely have their hands cuffed behind them, what do you think will happen to the cuffed and shocked victim as their head bounces off a tiled floor?
Maybe this guy needs to work on solutions to problems rather than creating problems for solutions.
I disagree. Imagine an A&E unit where a recently captured crim (who is already getting front of the queue treatment) who then decides to go batshit. The ward is full of people including kids so you can’t pepper spray or whip out the stun gun.
Who cares if they hit the floor, they are trying to escape or injure others.
This is definitely a solution to a very real problem.
If four highly trained police officers can’t restrain him then sack them.
You sure make a compelling argument I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re an avid reader of The Sun. For a minute I was tempted to say you’re a Daily Mail reader but you don’t mention what race the criminal is, or whether he’s foreign (here to steal our jobs)or a benefit scrounger. You only mention that there are kids in the full ward. There’s no mention as to whether there are also old people, war veterans, cancer victims, rape victims or any other victims that this scumbag criminal has effectively received preferential treatment over. There’s also no mention of The People’s Princess “Diana”, God rest her soul.
Yeah I’m definitely going for you read The Sun based on- He’s a “crim”, jumping the queue, going batshit crazy. Who cares if he hits the floor, he’s trying to escape/injure others anyway- gets what he deserves!
I saw “A very real problem” because I worked in A&E, for several years. I’m guessing you didn’t…
They would have been told to calm down, and would have been warned of the consequences before the shock was used. If they don’t have the common sense to cool it, then they deserve what they get.
And it wide open to abuse, and it would be abused.
and so it should, then we could watch the videos on brit cops the shocking edition
A proportion of people detained are non compos mentis. So you are saying we should have free range to attack and hurt a detained person that is not of sound mind, someone that is deeply troubled, vulnerable and scared is therefore a fair target in your eyes, and gets what they deserve?
I get a feeling that treating humans like humans may be a good direction to go in, and not abuse them like some Camp Delta detainee – for Christ’s sake we are British.
What if they fell in a puddle? Had a seizure? and the injection thing? the word AIDS springs to mind