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If anybody has ever watched the TV show Star Trek and has wondered what would happen if their phaser pistols failed to fire? Or in a sense, “run out of ammo.”

Did Mr. Spock forget to stick his phaser pistol on the charger the night before?

Similarly, what would happen if you were walking down the street in the middle of the night with your stun gun in hand and forgot to test it before leaving the house earlier in the day?

Did you forget to use a fresh battery or stick a rechargeable battery in the battery charger?

It is the little things like this that can mean the difference between life and death especially if you find yourself in a place that could be dangerous to you.

Whenever you leave the house, ALWAYS be concerned for your safety at all times. Those of you who jog at night should consider carrying a self defense device such as a stun gun. Be sure that you test the stun gun to ensure that it is working properly so that you will be prepared in time of need.

Always use a fresh alkaline battery for your stun gun, and consider changing the battery once every 6 months to maintain a fresh battery source.

Don’t use anything else but alkaline battery because some stun guns won’t operate on a non-alkaline power source.

Keep these things in mind before you go out at night where there is a possibility of muggers and rapists lurking in the shadows. Don’t let a potential perpetrator get the upper hand on you.

Set your “phasers on stun!”

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The latest stun gun debuting on the market is the Telescopic Stun Baton (SM-FLEX). This cool looking item has multiple functions and several advantages over other Stun Master stun guns.

For one, this item functions as a flashlight. This is definitely a must have. No other stun gun baton we have in stock has a flashlight feature.

Secondly, this item has a personal alarm. The personal alarm is perfect in an emergency situation to attract attention to yourself in case you are confronted by an attacker.

Thirdly, this item works as a regular baton. It measures 13″ closed and 21.5″ open. With the flick of the wrist, you have an instant 21.5″ metal baton ready for some action. The full extension of the baton can have a psychological advantage over the perp who may think twice about choosing you to be his victim. The fully extended baton is also great for maintaining your distance from your attacker unlike our handheld stun guns where you have to be in close quarters contact with him.

Finally, the big daddy of them all is the stun feature. I like this feature. By making contact with the perpetrator, just hit the stun trigger, and he’ll be screaming uncle while urinating in his pants.

Do you jog? This telescopic, flashlight stun baton is great for the jogger who encounters dogs on his or her jogging route. This is a great animal control stun baton to keep your distance from vicious dogs.

Of all the self defense products I have come across, this tool is by far very innovative. The ability to conceal the item from view is an advantage over the traditional stun baton we have in stock. Not to mention it looks like a curling iron. How many batons on the market these days resemble a curling iron?

The unit comes with an internal battery source and a battery charger. So you never have to worry about running out of batteries. Just plug it in and charge it up. This stun baton kit also comes with a holster.

This product is durable with multiple features and makes a great gift idea for the safety conscious person. This can be a great item for your college daughter to give her peace of mind.

Fabiola Castillo markets for the website NinjaCOPS SuperStore. This virtual store specializes in crime prevention and spy tools where you can buy cheap stun guns, kubaton keychains, Mace pepper spray, hidden video spy surveillance cameras, nunchaku technique videos, civilian Tasers, expandable steel batons, telescopic steel batons, and many other products.

It is a sad world this week when Australian born actor Heath Ledger was found dead by his masseuse inside a New York City apartment on Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Investigators are not definitive whether his death is a possible drug overdose since prescription drugs were found next to him at the time of the discovery. If drugs are did play a role in his death, exactly what does the forensic medical examiner or toxicologist look for when he performs an autopsy on an individual?

When somebody is poisoned to death, a forensic medical examiner/toxicologist must undergo the hard job of determining what the poison was that killed the victim.

The reason that poisons are very popular is because they can be hidden. Toxic substances very rarely leave clues visible to the naked eye. Therefore finding a toxin is a difficult task that requires several specialized tests and involves a variety of bodily fluids and tissues.

The best hiding places for these toxins are places where chemicals enter the body, where chemicals congregate within the body, and along the thoroughfares of elimination. Therefore stomach contents, blood, and tissues surrounding needle injection sites may contain high doses of the toxic material. Analyses of brain, liver, and other tissues can disclose to the medical examiner where a drug or its metabolites accumulated. Finally, a urinalysis can be indicative of where the toxic substance and its products of metabolism are concentrated for final elimination. Here is a list of potential “hiding” places for illegal toxic substances:

• Blood: Blood is perhaps the forensic toxicologist’s most useful tool for finding toxins. With present day toxicological procedures, one can find essentially any drug and its major products in the blood. A blood exam tells the toxicologist what was transpiring in the body at the time of death. Concentrations of medications and drugs within the blood are proportional with the levels of intoxication and with levels that can potentially kill a person.
• Stomach contents: Hospitals normally “pump” the stomach contents of survivors of drug overdoses by way of a gastric tube that is inserted through the nostril and into the stomach. Once the contents are extracted from the stomach, they are washed to remove any stomach acids and tested for the presence of drugs or poisons. During an autopsy, forensic medical examiners test the stomach contents in the same manner. Getting stomach contents is crucial where criminal investigators suspect poisoning or drug overdose. Concentrations of any drugs found in the stomach are not necessarily proportional with their levels in the blood and thus their effects on an individual.
• Urine: A urinalysis is commonplace for workplace drug testing. It can also be useful during an autopsy. Since the kidneys serve as a major depot for the body’s drug and toxin elimination routes, forensic medical examiners/toxicologists can many times find such toxic substances in greater concentrations in the urine. However, the relation between urine concentration of a drug and its effects in the body lacks proportion. This means that the urine level may disclose that the toxic substance had been in the blood at some earlier time. It does not determine whether the drug was exhibiting any effect on the person at the time it was collected.
• Hair: Hair has the unique ability of providing an intoxication timeline for many toxic substances including lead, arsenic, and other heavy metals.
• Vitreous humor: Within the cavity of the eyeball, there is a liquid called vitreous humor. This liquid does not putrefy easily like the other tissues of the body. In severely decomposed bodies, this fluid may be what is left of a body that can be tested. Concentration levels of drugs within the vitreous humor may lag behind the drug concentration levels found in blood by about 1 to 2 hours. Therefore, testing the vitreous humor reveals the concentration of a toxic substance in the blood 1 to 2 hours prior.
• Liver: The liver functions to metabolize (breakdown) drugs and toxins. Testing the liver and the bile that it produces many times discloses the presence of a drug or its metabolites, the products of drug metabolism. Forensic investigators can measure drug concentrations in the liver since many drugs, especially opiates, can be found in the liver and bile, even when blood tests yield no presence of drugs. The liver may show drug concentration during the hours prior to death, and the bile may tell what drugs were present in the system during the past three to four days. However, neither test is accurate.
• Insects: Forensic scientists may test insects that eat up dead bodies for drugs in the event of severely decomposed bodies. Since particular drugs tend to reside in the tissues of these bugs, they may provide information about whether a drug was present in the victim.

These locations are the most common locations for finding evidence of drugs or other toxic materials in the event of a suspected homicide.

Fabiola Castillo is an online marketer for the website NinjaCOPS SuperStore. This virtual store specializes in crime prevention and spy tools where you can buy cheap stun guns, kubaton keychains, Mace pepper spray, hidden video spy surveillance cameras, nunchaku technique videos, civilian Tasers, expandable steel batons, and many other products.

Stun guns are an increasingly popular self defense tool especially among women. Stun guns are not lethal like firearms and not lacerative like knives. These stun guns have the ability to put down an attacker with a simple push of a button. It is the voltage in stun guns that can put down an attacker.

What is a stun gun?

Traditionally, a stun gun is a handheld device that has a trigger and two metal prongs at the end of the unit. One must make contact with the perpetrator by placing the two metal prongs of the stun gun anywhere on his body and pulling the trigger. The stun gun is operated by a power source provided usually by a 9 V battery.

How does a stun gun work?

An electric shock will be delivered to the attacker’s muscles thus causing severe muscular contractions that will produce lactic acid. Lactic acid is a byproduct produced by the muscles when a muscle is being overworked from the effects of the stun gun. Lactic acid will result when fatiguing a muscle that is exposed to repeated electric shock from a stun gun.

Furthermore, the electric shock from the stun gun will interrupt the attacker’s nervous system and minimize communication from the brain to the peripheral nerves. This interruption in “nerve flow” as well as the electrifying effects of the stun gun will temporarily incapacitate a potential attacker who is out to get you.

What are other types of stun guns?

There is a law enforcement edition of a stun gun called the Taser. Most popular among law enforcement personnel is the M-18 Taser stun gun. A Taser stun gun contains two metal darts that are connected to fine, threadlike wiring. Once a Taser stun gun is fired upon a perpetrator, the two darts stick to the person’s body. The handheld unit of the Taser stun gun contains the trigger that, once pulled, will send an electric shock through the wiring, through the darts, and into the person. The ultimate result will be that the perpetrator will fall to the ground in agonizing pain.

This particular stun gun is very effective in short range (up to 15 feet) confrontations without the user having to come into physical contact with the perpetrator.

Stun batons are another kind of stun gun device. Stun batons are a fan favorite among security guards. With their extended reach, one can maintain a distance between himself and the perpetrator. These stun batons have two metal strips on each side of the baton. If the perpetrator attempts to grab the baton, he will be electrified. Our stun batons come in two flavors, 300,000 V and 500,000 V, and measure 16″ in length.

Telescopic Stun Baton by Stun Master. This particular item measures 13″ closed, 21.5″ open, and puts out a whopping 800,000 V. It also contains a personal alarm and flashlight for night time use. This item makes an excellent, concealable tool for your utility belt. Unlike the aforementioned stun baton, the Telescopic Stun Baton contains metal around the entire shaft of the baton and not just two strips of metal.

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Review of the Little Runt Stun Gun
By Fabiola Castillo

Just like a Motorola Razor phone, the Runt stun gun is very small and compact and can be easily carried with you wherever you go. This little devil has the size of a 10-pack of cigarettes and can fit easily in your breast pocket. If you were seen carrying this item in your shirt pocket, one could mistake it for a Motorola Razor phone due to its small and flat size.

The measurements of The Runt series stun guns are 3.5″ in length by 2-1/8″ in width by 7/8″ in thickness. This gadget comes in four different “flavors”: Runt 350, Runt 650, Runt 950, and Runt 950 Rechargeable. Each item puts out 350,000, 650,000 and 950,000 volts, respectively.

The Runt 950 and 950 Rechargeable is the Runt’s top gun because 950,000 volts is nothing to sneeze at. It is comparable to the Stun Master Hot Shot stun gun that also puts out 900,000+ volts. However, do not let the Runt’s little brothers fool you either. In fact, any of these stun guns can put out enough electricity to drop a horse. Of course, I do not recommend that you wrestle with a horse in order for you to stick him with the Runt. But you get the picture. Most law enforcement Tasers put out only 50,000 volts and are enough to electrify a raging bull.

Each of the Runts operates on three (3) CR123A lithium ion batteries which are included. The exception is the Runt 950 Rechargeable where you do not have to buy batteries since you can simply plug it into the wall and charge it up.

The unit comes with an integral safety switch on the side of the box. A 3/8″ circular button is located right next to the safety switch. Simply depressing this button will emit a loud crackling sound to notify your assailant that you mean business.

Also included with the Runt is a nylon carrying case with belt loop. Yes! You can not only carry this item in your shirt pocket but also on your belt. The carrying case is black with a Velcro flap closure. When you carry the Runt on your belt, the little gadget is securely concealed and conveniently within reach whenever you feel you are in danger. The nylon carrying case resembles a cell phone or a multi-tool pocket knife case.

The physiological effects of the Runt product include:

1. some pain, muscular contraction, and shock when applied for ½ second,
2. more muscular contractions and a dazed mental state when applied for 1-2 seconds,
3. and finally, loss of balance and muscle control, and absolute mental disorientation and confusion. Your attacker will be dazed and defecating in his pants by the time he kisses the concrete.

Like all other stun guns, never press the trigger button for more than 1 second at a time because you may damage the internal circuitry and void the warranty. The probes on the stun gun must be applied to your attacker during firing.

Do not test this unit on yourself! I tested it out on my stomach once, and I immediately had to go to the toilet. It is not recommended that you use the Runt to treat constipation.

Finally, do not test the Runt on your friends, even if it is a joke. The Runt like any other stun gun will hurt and incapacitate him. Leave that to the YouTube actors who are auditioning for the TV show Jackass.

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Forgery refers to writing or changing a document with the intention of defrauding others. Forensic handwriting analysts may be able to ascertain whether a document was changed or written by somebody other than the stated author, but finding out whether the writer’s intention was to defraud others is the decision of a judge or jury.

Even the most meticulous and gifted forgers leave behind evidence of their work. Forensic handwriting analysts visually inspect documents with the naked eye as well as with the use of a microscope. Microscopes many times disclose sure signs of forgery.

Two of the more common techniques of forgery are tracing and freehand simulation.

Tracing refers to putting another document over an original signature and tracing its lines. Freehand simulation refers to copying a signature or handwriting sample. Both methods lead to various abnormalities in the handwriting. A trained forensic handwriting analyst is able to detect these defects. Perfectly emulating somebody else’s handwriting style is a difficult task to accomplish.

A list of common clues that make forged handwritings stand out include:

• Evidence of a previous sketch–This can involve an underlying tracing of the letters, words, or signature
• Tremors in the forger’s hand–When the forger tries to copy a signature or writing style, he leaves behind fine yet distinctive markings indicating shakiness or tremors in his handwriting
• Inconsistent writing speed and pen pressure
• Hesitations
• Unusual pen lifting–The forger repeatedly lifts his pen to check his handiwork.
• Patching and retouching–Fixing or adding to broken marks to make the marks look connected and therefore the handwriting more fluid
• Dull beginnings and endings

Another type of forgery is called disguised writing. Disguised writing refers to deception in which the forger tries to hide his own handwriting. Many ransom letters and letters of intimidation are written in this manner with the hope that the writer can negate ownership at a future time. Offenders sometimes try to disguise their handwriting when confronted with an incriminating letter they wrote in their own natural style of handwriting.

The next time you watch your favorite CSI TV show, you will have a better understanding of what forensic handwriting analysts look for when examining handwritten documents.

Fabiola Castillo is an online marketer for the website NinjaCOPS SuperStore. This virtual store specializes in crime prevention and spy tools where you can buy cheap stun guns, kubaton keychains, hidden video spy surveillance cameras, nunchaku training videos, civilian Tasers, expandable steel batons, and many other personal safety products.