City Of Philadelphia Police Officers were arresting a suspect who was resisting arrest and were forced to deploy their tasers. Upon deployment the prongs of the taser made contact with a lighter in the suspects pocket, causing the lighter to explode within his pants and them to catch fire!. Never seen anything like this from a taser deploy before!. What are the odds?!.

 

 

and people will try and spin this to get tasers banned 

8 hours ago, 0taku said:

and people will try and spin this to get tasers banned 

 

Not really, it's just bad luck. But hey, maybe you know what people think, sounds like a cool superpower ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Damn, what are the odds?

Honestly I suppose any smoker is probable to have a lighter on their person ( if they don't vape or whatever ) and most likely in their pants pockets if they are not wearing a jacket or hoody. I wouldn't be shocked if they had a re-training session due to something like this. But at the same time it seems safer to deploy a taser on the lower body than it does the upper body. I understand the charge travels through your body but it has to be safer for the charge to start in your lower body as opposed to your chest/upper body. I know for a fact that deployments in the head/neck area can be fatal.