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This was one of those truly odd episodes, everything from green blood to string theory. Makes you wonder if the writers are running out of material.
Most of the episode contained nothing that I am professionally qualified to comment on — like people’s blood turning green, or their head exploding from a really bad “migraine” when forced to endure bright sunlight — so I’ll leave that to the reader to enjoy as a source of entertainment.
1) The Taser. I actually live in the home area for Taser, and for the most part I don’t have a lot of criticisms of their products. Their openness and customer service could afford to be improved, but their products perform as designed. They make a less-lethal alternative to shooting someone with a .40 S&W. But that’s something people have to remember, it’s less-lethal, not non-lethal. Depending on circumstances the deployment of a Taser can ultimately result in someone dying. So the officer has to understand that, and realize using the Taser can accidentally kill someone. Therefore the officer must be sure they have just reason to deploy potentially lethal force. And if they have just reason to deploy lethal force, why not just use their standard sidearm?
Anyway. The only nit-pick I have about the episode is when they are testing the different gelatin torsos with Taser shots, the probes would sometimes hit side by side, instead of in a vertical line. That’s not how the cartridges are designed to shoot the probes. I’ve done some testing on Tasers, and have never seen probes hit in that fashion, but like I said, nit-picky.
2) The guy who got lit-up was purportedly at a 0.28 BAC. Mind you, it SEEMED like it wasn’t a completed test, so in all likely-hood he would have had a higher BAC if the test had gone to completion. He had some slight slurred speech, but then that onsets between a 0.100 to a 0.180 depending on the individual. Here we had someone at 3.5 times the “legal” limit jump up and successfully knock aside half a dozen officers while running down a hallway to escape capture. The guy must have had some pretty serious tolerance to have that good of control of his gross motor skills.
