Shocked

I got tased today. As in, with a Tasor — one of those guns police use to shock people.

Don't worry, it wasn't because I stormed a cop with a knife or resisted arrest. They were just training and I am writing a story about it.

To say I got tased is a slight exaggeration. I didn't get the full on treatment, where they shoot these probes, which are connected to the gun with wires, into your skin. The wires send an electrical shock from the gun into your body. It basically takes you out.

They shot me without the probes, just putting the gun directly to my leg, so that I could just get a feel what what the current is like. It was intense enough that I could really only take a couple seconds of it — if even. You lose control of your muscle, and it just makes you involuntarily flex.

Lesson learned: Fight with a cop and you will lose.