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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 20 > How it feels to be shot with a Taser

How it feels to be shot with a Taser

2.5 seconds of pain, yet still fully aware

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
February 20, 2008

It was like someone hit me in the back with a sledgehammer.

I didn’t feel the two half-inch barbed probes pierce my skin, but the 50,000 volts they carried registered right away.

Then I flashed back to telling Sgt. Todd Fletcher of the Bend Police Department to keep the Taser on me for....

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