I’m almost hesitant to write about this, only because I know almost any funny story is one of those “you had to be there” moments, but my freshman year of college I took a Criminal Justice class on policing. One class day we had a guest speaker come and he brought his taser gun with him. He gave a long lecture on the mechanics of the taser and later asked if there were any volunteers to be tased. I thought the man was either joking or insane, but when I looked around the classroom there were 12 guys in a class of about 60 who had their hands raised. They got to choose anywhere between a very quick on/off switch all the way to 5 seconds. After watching a few guys scream their way through an on/off switch, 5 guys backed out, but I cried from laughing so hard at the 7 guys who begged for the policeman to turn the taser off after one second (though some bold/stupid ones aimed for 4 seconds).

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