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There seem to be a lot of public interest recently in the use of Taser’s, this comes after the media reported a few cases of possible taser abuse by the police force, and an even more recent lawuite by Taser International to have the cause of death in some Taser related incidences changed to their favour.

Well I certainly agree that it is wrong to lie and change the cause of death from Taser to ‘Excited Delerium’ (which isn’t a medically sound cause of death), I certainly do not agree with banning Tasers from the police force.

There is an apparent issue with some authority figures abusing people, be it some form of prejudice or their desire for power this is not limited to Tasers. For instance a case brought forward in Nova Scotia over the past couple of years where two officers assaulted a man in a convenience store who was being beligerent, but clearly not assualting or otherwise resisting the officers.

Notice that when this happened we did not question weather the police force should be allowed to have hands, nor any time you hear a police officer has shot someone when they should not have we never question the use of arms, so why would throw away our moral standard to integrity in our police officers and try to solve our problems by banning one of the most usefull, and least deadly tools on the force?

Some people have attempted to state that the only purpose of a Taser is to cause pain, once again this is not a fact. The way the human nervous system works, is that once a nerve ‘fires’ there is a preset period of time until it is capable of sending another signal to the brain. This is why people will rub a sore area of their body, the sensation caused by rubbing blocks more painful signal from getting to the brain, and the Taser works by forcing the nervous system to constantly keep firing so that the target is incapable of movement. Yes a Taser can be painful, but not nearly as painful as mace, or a bullet.

Taser provide authorities with a means of disabling people who are potentially going to cause harm to others, and they do so with a very minor chance of permanent injury or death; You cannot say that about a gun. And very simply put, if you do not want to be hit with one, don’t break the law; I promise this works almost all the time.

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid.
I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision.
But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.
Are you shy, squiggly line?
Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?
Oh, squiggly line,
it’s alright, you are forgiven.

If you email me, you might be ask to respond to a confirmation message. This is very normal, and I will not receive your email until you actual do respond to this confirmation message. It seems that there has been a recent increase in the amount of spam making it through Google’s spam filers so I have re-enabled this feature, Box Trapper, on my inbox.

They should pass a law making it legal to mame anyone caught spamming; Removing all of their fingers might make it more difficult to spam people, if at the very least it just makes them rethink their actions.

Being the first time my wife and I have ever had to deal with -35 degree temperatures, we were not really sure how cold the VW TDI would go before it wouldn’t start any more. I went to work yesterday, and couldn’t get the car to start on the way home, leaving me to walk home, about 5km at -35 celsius (oh what joy).

It was sufficient a reason to join AMA, they towed my car back home, we pushed it into the garage overnight and two hours later it worked like a charm. What was VW thinking by not putting a block heater in their diesel vehicles? Usually it is around -20c when it starts to get difficult.

After a $300.00 day, at least we have an AMA/CAA membership now, and I purchased a special coolant tank heater which heats the coolant and circulates the coolant throughout the motor, which is just as effective as a block heater on those cold days. While I won`t have my new heater to install for probably another 2-3 weeks at least I will be ready for next year. Apparently though these tank heater (purchasable through www.frostheater.com) are highly effective and recommended by many people from the TDI Forums; I`ll post once I have tested it out for myself.

As for tomorrow, I`ll have to take the bus.