Taser Corp Fights Truth With Lies

Taser shocks ruled cause of death - Company disputes first such finding


A Chicago medical examiner has ruled that shocks from a Taser were responsible for the death of a man in February, marking the first time that the electronic stun gun has been named as the primary cause of death.



Taser strongly criticized the Medical Examiner's Office in a statement Friday and said it will challenge the autopsy.

"We believe that the scientific and medical community will publicly challenge this conclusion based upon the lack of credible evidence," Taser spokesman Steve Tuttle wrote in an e-mail on Friday. "Taser International will seek a judicial review of the report and the basis for which those statements were made."


You dare to question our product ? We're gonna sue ! We dont care if you're a corener or not !


This is not the first time Taser has challenged a medical examiner. For years, Taser officials publicly said the stun gun was never cited in an autopsy report. But an Arizona Republic investigation last year revealed that Tasers have been cited repeatedly by medical examiners in death cases and that Taser did not start collecting autopsy reports until last April.


No one ever complained before ! And if they did , we never kept track anyways ! So whats your problem ?


Taser officials later maintained that the medical examiners in those cases were wrong and did not have the credentials or expertise necessary to examine deaths involving stun guns. They now maintain that Tasers have never been cited by a medical examiner as "the sole cause of death."


Thos coroners are incompetant ! We know what we're doing , we're big business ! Listen to us not those guys with PhD's !!! Just because we stand to go bankrupt if what they say turns out to be true thats not important . WE'RE RIGHT THEY'RE WRONG !!!


"We sincerely hope that a groundless opinion will not overshadow the medical and scientific community's conclusions as to the lethal levels of methamphetamine use," he said in the statement. "Overlooking this as a primary cause of death contradicts the very nature and purpose of these known lethal values."


That corener is lying ! He's just making all this up ! It's all totally groundless !!!


Denton, who grew up in Scottsdale, did not return The Republic's calls for an interview on Friday. According to a Web site for the Illinois Coroners and Medical Examiners Association, Denton has worked at the Office of the Medical Examiner of Cook County for nine years. He is also an assistant professor in the pathology department at Rush University Medical Center. He got his medical degree from the University of Arizona.

So ? So what ? He got a degree in medicine ? That lets him examine dead bodies ,not blame our weapon for killing them ! Grow up ! What does he think he is, some kind of expert or something ?


Denton told the Sun-Times that he reviewed thousands of pages of information provided by Taser. But he said his conclusion was also based on the findings of James Ruggieri, an electrical engineer who in February made a presentation to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in which he said Taser shocks could cause cardiac arrest.


We gave him a ton of propaganda , I mean documentation , on our weapon , but he chose instead to listen to some other guy . So we have to sue him !


Ruggieri, who is a forensic engineer and has consulted with police departments and the military on electrical accidents, said shocks from Taser could cause delayed ventricular fibrillation, the irregular heartbeat characteristic of a heart attack. He also said that multiple shocks from a Taser could cause someone to stop breathing and go into cardiac arrest. He said that many deaths involving Tasers have likely been wrongly dismissed as simple heart attacks or drug overdoses.


Yeah yeah , some other guy with a PhD in medicine. He's wrong ! Trust me ! I have a degree in business and this is a capatilistic society , so you have to believe me over him ! You have to believe the business man first !


Taser has challenged Ruggieri's credentials and said its own medical and electrical experts dispute his findings. Taser maintains that its guns have undergone dozens of tests through universities and the Department of Defense, which support its claim of safety.

We tested this thing half to death , and got rid of the test we didn't like becaue that would hurt our profit line. What are you doing testing them again with people we don't control ? WE'RE GONNA SUE EVERYONE UNDER THE SUN NOW !!!!


Last week, Dolton, Ill., filed a class-action lawsuit against Taser, becoming the first police department to take legal action over what it described as Taser's exaggerated claims of safety. The city said it paid $8,572 for stun guns that are too dangerous to use on the street.


Our own customers are suing us for false advertising ? THAT'S IT ! WE'RE SUING EVERYONE BACK ! STARTING WITH ALL THOSE BOGUS MEDICAL EXAMINERS THAT DARED TO BLAME US FOR ALL THE DEAD BODIES STACKING UP !!!

Taser amuses me. It really does.

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