Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Email

vote downundo vote up flag

dailymail.co.uk - 5/4/2009

Prison officer zaps children with 50,000-volt stun gun 'to show them what a day at work is like' | Mail Online

—

Stun gun Walter Schmidt used a stun gun like this one to administer powerful electric shocks to children touring the prison

Leave a Comment

Prison officer surprised he was fired zapping children with 50,000-volt stun gun
Boing Boing — Prison officer Walter Schmidt zapped visiting children with a 50,000-volt stun gun to give them a taste of life in a Florida jail. Two of the kids were knocked screaming to the floor with burns on their arms. One child went to the hospital. "It wasn't intended to be malicious, but educational," said Schmidt. "The big shock came when I got fired." Prison officer zaps children with 50,000-volt stun gun "to show them what a day at work is like" (Via Arbroath) ...

World's Smartest Prison Officer Fired After Using a Stun Gun on Visiting Children [Bad Ideas]
Gizmodo — ... not surprisingly, Schmidt got fired. 37-year-old Schmidt told officials who later fired him that he had only been trying to show the children - whose parents all work at the jail near Tallahassee - what a typical day involves while handling unruly inmates. 'It wasn't intended to be malicious, but educational,' he explained to the St Petersburg Times. 'The big shock came when I got fired.' The jokes just write themselves, don't they? [Daily Mail via The Daily What] ...