In the News: by KGW.com Staff
Posted on February 21, 2014 at 5:45 PM
Updated Saturday, Feb 22 at 4:02 PM
SALEM – A woman armed with a stun gun chased after a man in Salem after he exposed himself to her Thursday night.
Lisa Haecherl had just finished a long day of work at the Salem Center and was headed to her car around 8 p.m. She had an uneasy feeling she was being followed, and once she got into her car, a man walked up to her and exposed himself.
Then he started to walk away.
That's when Haecherl turned the tables and chased after the man.
"I flung open my door, and I asked him to come back, and he started to come back, and I told him I was going to tase him, and I let my Taser off for about 20 seconds and he started running," she said.
Haecherl wasn't able to get him with the stun gun so she jumped into her car and chased after him, cornering him between her car and a fence.
"He only had one option and it was to jump the fence, and he jumped it. He did not jump it gracefully," she said.
Officers and a K-9 unit swarmed the area but couldn’t locate the suspect. Police are hoping to track down the suspect before he strikes again.
Thursday’s incident was in the same area where several people were recently groped.
STUN GUNS: WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW DO THEY WORK:
Evolving from the old cattle prod, stun guns are electronic shocking devices designed to incapacitate a person by disrupting the brains communication to the body's muscles. Stun guns are battery powered. The power is sent through multiple transformers that boost voltage and reduce amperage, which builds up a charge in the capacitor and then releases the charge through the electrodes. There is also an oscillator, which produces a specific pulse pattern that is made to mimic the body's won electric signals. Once that energy from the stun gun is dumped into the attacker's muscles, it causes them to do a great deal of work rapidly by interrupting the tiny neurological impulses that control and direct voluntary muscle movement.You can touch any part of assailant's body, but the large muscle areas and the upper torso is your primary target. A second touch will startle and repel assailants, giving some pain and muscle contractions. A moderate length touch of 2 to 4 seconds can cause an attacker to fall to the ground and result in some mental confusion. A touch of 5 or more seconds can cause loss of balance and muscle control, mental confusion and disorientation. No sound will be heard when touching an attacker with a stun gun. Under no conditions you can suffer a charge back to your own body, even if assailant is holding you.
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Resource from: Stun gun 101 Published by overcounterintel 9/20/13
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