Should Dan get a taser case for his iPhone?

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Poll Should Dan get a taser case for his iPhone? (237 votes)

Yes 40%
No 53%
Maybe 7%

Yellowjacket sells iPhone cases that work as functional tasers. Given Dan's (apparent) worry about getting mugged and needing decoy everything, should he just buy one of these taser cases instead?

Here is the company in question:

http://www.yellowjacketcase.com/

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No. But this thing is a stun gun, not a Taser. Taser is a brand name, those are the things shaped like pistols that fire projectiles that many police officers carry.

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He definitely should. These are stun guns, though. A TASER is the one that shoots out prongs. As much as I'd like to see this happen to Dan...:

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I don't think they build those into phone cases. (I'm also a pedant about the whole "electrocuted means killed, shocked means shocked but not killed)

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Phone case switchblade or nothing.

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I can see Dan injuring himself just having his phone with this case on in his pocket, so yes.

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Lets not arm Dan please.

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@quid_pro_bono: I like the confetti that shoots out like "YAY! YOU'RE FUCKED."

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Yes, I think Dan should get tasered.

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@nadril said:

Lets not arm Dan please.

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No. Definately no.

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I can see Dan injuring himself just having his phone with this case on in his pocket, so yes.

Yeah my exact thought.

Or he gets drunk and uses it on himself or a friend or something.

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Phone case switchblade or nothing.

You'd be better with a baseball bat case

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#13  Edited By Quid_Pro_Bono

@hatking said:

@quid_pro_bono: I like the confetti that shoots out like "YAY! YOU'RE FUCKED."

It looks pretty awesome, and it's a smart solution to a difficult problem

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Just give your phone and money to the mugger - trying to attack them with a taser iPhone case will get you actually fucking killed.

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The real question is: Bat or Knife?

But yeah attacking an attacker is not a great idea when they aren't trying to physically hurt you.

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#16  Edited By Fallen189

America sounds so stupid

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@hatking said:

@quid_pro_bono: I like the confetti that shoots out like "YAY! YOU'RE FUCKED."

I was thinking it's like it's celebrating how fucked you are.

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Just give your phone and money to the mugger - trying to attack them with a taser iPhone case will get you actually fucking killed.

Clearly you underestimate my ability to dispatch armed muggers and burglars with flying spin-kicks and my concealed carry Uzi.

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#19  Edited By musubi

America sounds so stupid

Incredibly insightful commentary you have there standing on your pedestal.

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@fallen189 said:

America sounds so stupid

It's way better/worse in practice.

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I'll chip in to get Dan a handgun.

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That thing looks like something Dan would own. Not saying he should own it, but you know.. UPF is coming up and they need ideas..

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#23  Edited By AlexW00d

@fallen189 said:

America sounds so stupid

Incredibly insightful commentary you have there standing on your pedestal.

Not sure you need a pedestal to see how fucking dumb a phone case that can physically injure people is...

Also what kind of royal shit hole does Dan live in to be scared walking about?

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#24  Edited By musubi

@alexw00d said:
@demoskinos said:
@fallen189 said:

America sounds so stupid

Incredibly insightful commentary you have there standing on your pedestal.

Not sure you need a pedestal to see how fucking dumb a phone case that can physically injure people is...

Also what kind of royal shit hole does Dan live in to be scared walking about?

Its for self defense mate. Carrying something for protection or self defense is not an unreasonable thing.

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@alexw00d said:
@demoskinos said:
@fallen189 said:

America sounds so stupid

Incredibly insightful commentary you have there standing on your pedestal.

Not sure you need a pedestal to see how fucking dumb a phone case that can physically injure people is...

Also what kind of royal shit hole does Dan live in to be scared walking about?

Its for self defense mate. Carrying something for protection or self defense is not an unreasonable thing.

I understand that, but in your phone case? Just sounds dangerous. Probably more likely to injure yourself than you are stop someone attacking you.

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Attaching his phone to a baseball bat would be better than a switchblade phone case

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@fallen189: its pretty sweet. They let us shoot each other!

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#28  Edited By big_jon

No... What the hell?

How paranoid would you have to be for this shit? Seriously.

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Dan should not own anything that can inflict injury to any person. I would argue he should not own forks or butter-knifes.

Love you Dan :)

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@alexw00d: i take more issue with the stereotypical notion that only america does dumb shit, like we're just a country of buffoons...

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#31  Edited By technics

Re-quoting despite the missed apostrophe because I'm willing to back a lesser mistake in lieu of a greater one.

@conmulligan said:

@nadril said:

Lets not arm Dan please.

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These cases cost like over $100. Wouldn't it be cheaper (and WAAAAAY safer) to just insure the thing against theft, and then hand it over in the unlikely event of getting mugged?

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@nadril said:

Lets not arm Dan please.

I'm usually the guy who is ALL FOR arming yourself and self defense in general, but in this case I agree. I love Dan as much as anyone else on here but yeah.... Nothing good can come from this.

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Don't kill, and don't be killed.

Don't arm Dan

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@fallen189: I love this country but god damn it every where I look it seems like everyone is arming themselves. Take this with a grain of salt though because I live in the Bible Belt aka Gun Country.

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This sounds like the best possible idea.

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Yes because he'll either deservedly shock himself with it or undeservedly shock someone else with it which would have it's own repercussions.

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You put munitions chips in toys?

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Never bring anything to the fight that you wouldn't taken away from you and stuck up your ass.

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#41  Edited By colourful_hippie

Stun guns are pointless unless you like the little light show it does when you turn it on. In a real altercation you would need to get too close for the thing to have a chance of somewhat working and in the end will put in you more danger than the other way around especially if the other person has a real weapon.

Just get a taser which is more effective and gives you distance

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I just had a mental image of Dan walking down the street to Taco Bell using Periscope and accidentally shocking himself. Or maybe (still on Periscope) getting mugged and accidentally shocking himself. So I vote "maybe".

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#43  Edited By YummyTreeSap

@big_jon said:

No... What the hell?

How paranoid would you have to be for this shit? Seriously.

Well, Dan portrayed an instance of a homeless man running up to him and saying "fuck you" as a close encounter with being murdered, so I'd say Dan's right at the appropriate level of paranoia.