Topic: Stories Found In The News

Here is an interesting Slingshot story from the Tri-City Herald. It turns out a dispute with a Slingshot brough in the SWAT team! Talk about overkill!

Here is a story from "The Land Down Under" about how they want to deal with people who don't pay their subway fare. Apparently they think the way to deal with them is to handcuff them!

Here is an interesting article that is basically discussing a new type of handcuffs that are a major improvement over the standard handcuff. Who knew that the handcuffs today are based on a design well over 100 years old?

How well do your handcuffs really work?

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When a law enforcement or correctional officer places a pair of handcuffs on a subject, they normally assume that the subject is controlled or at least secured. We have a certain level of expectation that the subject who is in the handcuffs will not be able to escape. Yet time and time again we hear of the tragedy of a subject who has picked their handcuffs and killed the officers who were transporting them. What exactly are handcuffs supposed to do? What assumptions do we have of them?

Here is an interesting story, its about how the US Military is facing violent children in Baghdad armed with.....slingshots!

U.S. troops face violent children in Baghdad Shiite militias encouraging children to hurl stones and gasoline bombs at U.S. convoys, Americans say.

By Antonio Castaneda ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, October 05, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiite militias are encouraging children as young as 6 to hurl stones and gasoline bombs at U.S. convoys, hoping to lure American troops into ambushes or provoke them into shooting back, U.S. soldiers say.

Gangs of up to 100 children assemble in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia, and in nearby neighborhoods, U.S. officers said.

Here is an interesting story, a couple of years ago Daisy decided to enter the Slingshot market. Prior to them entering this market, they focused exclusively on air guns. Now that they've had such a bad experience, one has to wonder how much longer they'll keep making Slingshots?

By Alan Fein

(AXcess News) New York - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says Daisy Manufacturing Co., of Rogers, Ark. has recalled 104,500 slingshots and you'd never guess why.

According to the CPSC, Daisy's slingshots could put your eye out. Just like your mother always warned you about!

Apparently, Daisy Slingshots rubber band could slip out of its frame during use, the ball at the end of the tubing can strike the user, resulting in serious facial injuries.