Taser's

[paul1763]

why is it that when a line of people hold hands and 1st in line grabs electric fence, everyone feels the jolt, the last in line getting it worst.(i know this answer) but when you see the guinea pig in a taser experiment being held up by a guy either side, they do not suffer when the middle guy gets shocked.

[Bathsheba]

eh? Wha?

[paul1763]

what sort of answer is that? the question's not rocket science, but the answer maybe

[Calibax]

The cuurent only passes between the two electrodes of the taser so is contained within the body of the victim.

[Bathsheba]

Paul,...first of all I was confused by the apostrophe after Taser in the title, and then I read what amounted to cruelty to animals in the full post.

[paul1763]

thanks both i still cant get my head round it traveling just between the 2 electrodes, only thing i know about shocks is they hurt all over

[bednobs]

i was also bit puzzled by the question, but if you read guinea pig as a person who is offering to take part in the experiment, rather than an actual guinea pig, it makes more sense :)

[bednobs]

by the way, are you sure that the last in line will get it worst? I hd always rather believed the opposite - first in line experiencing the most

[hc4361]

The last in line feels the jolt because there is nobody to pass the current to. It has come to a dead end.

[stuey]

Shouldn't this be in the sub-topic "Current Affairs"?

[TheChair]

Current always takes the path of least resistance. In the case of a Tazer, that is down one wire, through a couple of inches of flesh, and up the other wire. Consequently, no current flows through the people on either side.
In the case of an electric fence current flows through the person's hand and arm and then takes the path of least resistance to earth (Usually down their side and through their feet.

hc4361's answer make no sense, because, if there is nowhere for current to flow to, it won't flow, and if it doesn't flow, you can't get a shock.

I suspect that your comment about the last person in line is a misunderstanding of the experiments where a line of people stand on insulators, while the first person in line touches the fence. No current flows, precisely because there is no route to earth. Then, a person stand son the ground (probably without shoes) and touches the last in line. At that point current will flow through the arms and chests of every one in the line, until finally going to ground down the side and through the feet of the last person (the one who is not insulated).

[Canary42]

If there's nowhere for the current to flow to, then it doesn't flow - that's why birds can safely perch on electric railway lines or high tension overhead cables .

[paul1763]

bednobs, i didn't know what to call the person either, other than victim,hero or bloody idiot. and as hc says there's nowhere else for the shock to go.

[trt]

On the the subject of tasters, when the police fire it at person wearing a winter coat, does it actually go through the material?

[Bathsheba]

trt.....you posted this yourself last year :)

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1445040.html

[trt]

## trt.....you posted this yourself last year :) ##

Yes I am aware of that Baths, but this is a different Q I am asking here :-)