Shock braceletts proposed for air travel

[retiredgrunt45]

Posted with the usual disclaimers

This certainly would be quite a deterrent for those unruly passengers. Passenger mouths of to you, you ZZZZZZZZZZzap them, heh, heh, heh>. I could see this heading in the wrong direction...

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/20/air-safety-proposal.html

Link to manufacturer webpage: http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/

Link to patent webpage: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,933,851.PN.&OS=PN/6,933,851&RS=PN/6,933,851

Air safety proposal: shock-bracelets controlled by flight attendantsPosted by Cory Doctorow, March 20, 2008 5:14 PM | permalink

Lamperd, a "firearm training system" company, has patented a bracelet that delivers debilitating shocks when remotely triggered. Their killer app for this is aviation safety: they're proposing that the TSA could force everyone who flies to wear one of these and then flight-attendants could zap us into a stupor if we turn out to be Al Quaeda.
A method of providing air travel security for passengers traveling via an aircraft comprises situating a remotely activatable electric shock device on each of the passengers in position to deliver a disabling electrical shock when activated; and arming the electric shock devices for subsequent selective activation by a selectively operable remote control disposed within the aircraft. The remotely activatable electric shock devices each have activation circuitry responsive to the activating signal transmitted from the selectively operable remote control means. The activated electric shock device is operable to deliver the disabling electrical shock to that passenger.
Best part? They're Canadian! Oh, my countrymen, you have a wicked sense of humo(u)r.
Link to patent, Link to Lamperd FTS site (via Schneier)

 

[Trinity]

Wow...  imagine the media if it was inappropriately used.

Oh, 12C is on a cell phone.. ZAP.

Or worse yet.. a cell phone signal or other type of electronic device sets off the shock.

An ex gf of mine had one of these for her dog to prevent barking.  But the tv for some reason
would set off the collar and shock the dog. Needless to say the dog didn't like the TV or TV room.

I think everyone would agree that this is just a bad idea all around.  I wouldn't fly under such rules.

 

[George Wallace]

Wow...  imagine the media if it was inappropriately used.

Oh, 12C is on a cell phone.. ZAP.

Or worse yet.. a cell phone signal or other type of electronic device sets off the shock.

An ex gf of mine had one of these for her dog to prevent barking.  But the tv for some reason
would set off the collar and shock the dog. Needless to say the dog didn't like the TV or TV room.

I think everyone would agree that this is just a bad idea all around.  I wouldn't fly under such rules.

Then again some may look on those examples as "Good things". 

No pets interrupting the big game. 

I think it should also be extended to drivers who insist on using their Cell phones and doing yet another task while driving.  >

 

[medaid]

I can see this as potentially useful in LE fields udring large prisoner transport situations.Also for secyrity personnel who are hired to escort disruptive passengers on their return trip from being deported by the CBSA.

 

[Koenigsegg]

Nah....For the LE purposes I wanna see the collars from The Running Man...
Prisoner transport - "DO NOT cross that white line in the aisle there...Trust me."

But as for the bracelet idea...I can see that going down hill pretty fast.