Originally Posted by stuff.co.nz

Policeman tasers himself and teenager at domestic dispute
18 November 2006

An Auckland policeman attending a domestic dispute in Auckland accidentally blasted himself and a teenager with a Taser, before pepper-spraying an innocent woman.

The constable was attending the incident at a central Auckland home when he shocked himself, the 16-year-old and then later pepper-sprayed the 21-year-old woman, The New Zealand Herald reported today.

The constable was reloading his weapon when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts while trying to stun a man at the centre of the domestic incident on October 1.

One shot accidentally struck the man's teenage son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray but hit the man's 21-year-old daughter – an unintended target.

The man eventually gave himself up. The constable, who had had Taser training, was not injured.

The taser is being tested by frontline policemen in Auckland and Wellington.
Advertisement
Advertisement

An official police update of the Taser trial, published on October 17, made no mention of the constable firing five times, or missing his target, zapping himself or hitting the boy, the newspaper reported.