2011: An 82-year-old man is hospitalized in London after being shocked by police arresting him on suspicion of damaging a vehicle. He is treated and released.

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2007: Robert Dziekanski dies after being stunned five times by Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Vancouver National Airport. Police also confiscate a cellphone video of the incident. An inquiry rules that the officers were responsible for Dziekanski’s death and deliberately misrepresented their actions to investigators.

2003: A police officer in Las Vegas suffers traumatic internal disk disruption and persistent dizziness during a Taser training exercise.

2008: A federal jury orders the family of Robert Heston Jr. to be paid $6 million in punitive damages three years after he was repeatedly shocked by police in California and later died. A judge later reduced the award to $153,000.

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2007: “Don’t Tase Me Bro” becomes an Internet meme after Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old University of Florida student, is captured on video shouting the plea to campus police while being arrested during a speaking engagement by Sen. John Kerry.

2006: A student at UCLA, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, is stunned several times for allegedly refusing to be escorted from the university library. Tabatabainejad sues the police for brutality and receives $220,000 in a settlement.

2009: Derick Jones, 17, is shocked by police in Virginia and dies. The autopsy reveals Jones to be in good health, with no pre-existing medical conditions and no drugs other than alcohol in his system. The death is ruled random cardiac arrhythmia with no direct cause, and the stun gun could not be ruled out as a causative or contributing factor in Jones’ death.

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2008: Taser International successfully sues the medical examiner in Summit County, Ohio, to have the term “Taser” removed in all references to three deaths and to change the cause of deaths from “homicide” to “undetermined.”

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2008: Baron “Scooter” Pikes dies after being stunned multiple times while handcuffed by authorities in Louisiana. His death is ruled a homicide.

2008: Kevin Piskura dies five days after being stunned by police in Ohio while allegedly interfering with a friend’s arrest. The incident is captured on the Taser’s integrated camera.

2006: A 56-year-old wheelchair-bound woman in Florida dies after receiving 10 Taser shocks. Her death is ruled a homicide.

2010: Steve Consalvi, 17, is shocked by police during a Philadelphia Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park after jumping onto the field and interrupting play in the eighth inning. The incident sparks a debate about law enforcement’s use of stun guns in the Philadelphia area.

1978: The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms rules that Tasers are a firearm because they use gunpowder to launch the projectile.

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Noise is usually defined as any disturbing sound. In practice, however, it is referred to as ‘sound’ when pleasant, and ‘noise’ when annoying. Generally, the acceptable levels of noise in office areas are below those levels known to pose a risk to hearing.

2011: A police officer in Florida is treated for hearing loss after a fellow officer deliberately activated a stun gun behind her ear.