Prison Riot

Some of you might already know that I went to West Virginia last month to the WV State Penitentiary. Most of it was very fun. Some of it was extremely painful. This prison riot is held every year to help train police officers, corrections officers, military and SWAT teams to prepare for riots that may occur. The riot scenarios last about 15 minutes each and they are held in all different areas of the prison all day long for 4 days. The officers act as officers, and we (Weber State Students) act as inmates.
One of the scenarios took place on a prison bus so they could learn how to control inmates on a transport situation when they are rioting on a bus. I got to throw objects at the officers, hit them, kick them, whatever I wanted to do. The thing is that the more of a fight we put up, the more force the officers are allowed to use on us. Lets just say they ended up having to drag me feet first along the isle of the bus allowing me to hit into as many seats as possible. LOL. At least it was well deserved punishment for the fight I put up.
So I have a video for this next part. I've never put a video on my blog before so you'll have to tell me if it works.
Many companies come to this Mock Prison Riot every year to show off their technologies to use in riot control. Some companies allow us to "test" their equipment. Everyone was doing it, seriously, I had to. Its like a right of passage, they would think me a wuss if I didn't. Plus I told all the kids at my work that I would do it, I couldn't just not do it! (I realize that was a double negative) So here is the video of me getting Tased. It is the exact voltage and length of time, 5 seconds, that cops tase people for, so don't tell me that it is too dangerous to use one people. I am fine, there are no residual effects of being tased. Well, except for the burn scars it left from the electricity burning my skin, which are very tiny, like the size of my pinky finger nail.