Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Sonic Weapon to Subdue Unruly Teenagers?

Straight from the “holy crap does the man ever over-react these days file” comes this little story from the U.K.  where they’ve been employing high frequency devices to drive off loitering and drunken teens in certain areas. Apparently, the pitch of the frequency is something that is only audible (and thus highly annoying, uncomfortable, and […]

Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Tasers: Torture?

There’s been heightened media coverage of tasering incidents lately. Most recently reports are that police tasered a pregnant woman in Ohio. Alongside the “death by taser” fiasco in Vancouver, and the speeding ticket incident on a Utah highway, it would appear that it is ever more likely the cops are goind to apply the use […]