Camera modified into stun gun found at school

[demmiblue]

By Amber Hunt • Free Press staff writer • May 12, 2009
Updated at 5:33 p.m.

The device looks like nothing more than a disposable camera, but as Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel can attest, it's far more sinist
er.

The sheriff let out a yelp after shocking himself for reporters as he demonstrated how the camera — modified into a stun gun — can release a jolt.

"It hurts, I can tell you that," Hackel said today.

The makeshift stun gun was found Monday at Dakota High School in Macomb Township, where an 18-year-old student zapped willing friends as a joke. Word got to school administrators, who confronted the student and confiscated the device.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090512/NEWS04/90512070/1006/news04/Camera+takes+stunning+shot++Teen+turned+it+into+stun+gun

[rcrush]

1. That kid should win some prize in the science fair.

[demmiblue]

2. He found it on the internets, though!

[Deja Q]

13. On that site called "How do torture just like the solders at Abu Graib, but on a budget!"

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Kid makes a prank. News at 11. n/t

[Deja Q]

12. We'll be sure to give you sympathy of one of these pranks ever affects you.

:sarcasm:

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. If I ever suffer the unimaginable horror of being shocked by a disposable camera...

... I hope they try the perpetrator as an adult.
:eyes:

Unless I do it to myself, in which case I blame society.

[jdadd]

4. Oh Goodgrief.....

This is another example of some students idea of a fun project getting blown way out of proportion. When I was in high school way back in the early sixties, I and some of my buddies made a similar device out of parts salvaged from an old tv in electronics class. A filiment voltage transformer,Doorbell buzzer,and a couple of flashlight batteries. We put ours in a little wood box that would shock you if you picked it up off the table, and then marked it with "do not touch"...We got our share of victims that way. :evilgrin:

[NashVegas]

5. Yeah, Police Won't Like It So Much

As more citizens discover we can get our hands on Tasers and other stun guns, too.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. If it doesn't stun, it is not a stun gun.

It's a toy that emits an electrical discharge - a zap.

It's a zap gun.

[rcrush]

7. I had a pen that zapped people when you touched the cap when I was in high school.

You could buy it out of a comic book.

Also small town Sheriffs are morons.

[rcrush]

8. In other news, the swat team raids a local elementary school

For kids putting 9 volt batteries on their tounges. Little fucking terrorists!

[Iggo]

9. It's a joy-buzzer, not a stun gun.

And the wussification of America continues...

[backscatter712]

10. Cool! Now I'm gonna have to get a disposable camera and take it apart!

Capacitors are fun!

ZAP!!! OW!!!

[X_Digger]

11. I've inadvertently done that to myself..

.. while playing with the flash / capacitor from disposable cameras.

big whoop.

[w4rma]

14. Good grief. I bet it can't even stun anyone. (nt)