No, that headline is not a joke. And no, the taser was not an extra-special, just-for-kids mini-taser, nor was it a fake taser, nor was it even one of those electro-shock collars people put on their dogs yappy / disobedient dogs, because it wasn't a taser at all. It was, in fact, a stun gun which, to clarify, requires direct contact with the body and which delivers a whopping 50,000 volt shock which, in this case, "sent at least two of [the children] sprawling to the floor, crying out in pain and clutching at agonising burns on their arms."
Where did this happen? Florida, of course!
The kicker in all this is the choice quote from the since terminated prison guard (emphasis ours):
'It wasn't intended to be malicious, but educational...The big shock came when I got fired.'
How big of a shock, exactly, was it? Was it, for argument's sake, a 50,000 volt shock? Or more like a 36,000 volt shock? No, really. We're dying to know.
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