43 kids tasered at prisons' Take Your Kids to Work Day

43 stun-gunned at prisons' Take Your Kids to Work Day
BY MARC CAPUTO
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau


TALLAHASSEE -- A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous ''Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day'' events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections.

Also, a group of kids was exposed to tear gas during a demonstration at another lockup.

Three prison guards have been fired, two have resigned and 16 more employees -- from corrections officers to a warden -- will be disciplined due to the incidents that unfolded April 23, said DOC Secretary Walt McNeil. An investigation is ongoing.

None of the children in any of the incidents required medical attention or was notably harmed, McNeil said. He said the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 17, were all children of prison officials.

In nearly every case, the guards had permission from parents or grandparents to administer the ''electronic immobilization devices,'' McNeil said.

''I can't imagine what these officers were thinking to administer this device to children, nor can I imagine why any parent would allow them to do so,'' McNeil said. ``This must not happen again.''

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http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/1050424.html

have a bring your child to work day in the first place?

Have these people been trained by XE aka Blackwater or maybe the CIA?

K&R

While tasering kids is unwise and liable to make you a resident of a prison rather than a guard, are they doing more than demonstration zaps.

We know that zapping a person with a full five-second jolt is insanely painful, and occasionally fatal. But people do zap themselves and each other on the arm briefly just for laughs. I'm wondering if this was one of those occurrences.

To give you an idea what I'm talking about, here's a couple clips of the Mythbusters tasering each other and themselves... "'Warning - may cause nerve damage!" Let's try the tongue! ZAP OWWWW!!! My tongue isth numm! BWAHAHAHA!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEx82SOffG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8ovAPAD2s

Then there's the meanest prank in Mythbusters - hooking the Baghdad Battery Ark of the Covenant to an electric fence charger (OUCH!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SEBFGGEcI

Goes to show that while these things can start out as entertaining horseplay, it can get out of hand...