The doubt " how do they essay the safety of non - lethal weapons "   may have crossed your idea at some point or another ( you inviolable sicko ) . Do they test them on beast , or some poor employee who draw the shortsighted drinking straw and now has to stand there getting shocked by   50,000 volts ?

The answer is yes .

Tasers , for instance , have been tested on bothhuman employeesandmeth - addled sheep . The army test it too , but that primarily seems to be because they get some sort of eldritch kick from tasering their colleagues if the laughter in this video is anything to go by .

The one that believably stands out to you , let ’s face it , is the methed - up sheep . As you ’d expect , natural law enforcement does n’t encounter many sheep on drugs committing crimes . They are , to be fair to them , a peaceful specie known chiefly for eat grass rather than ( for good example ) turn an armored car through a bank in an attempt to grab the ATM for drug money .

The work , funded partly by TASER International , was conducted for test the safety of tasering humans on the drug .

" Because of the prevalence of shabu abuse worldwide , it is not uncommon for subject in law enforcement encounters to be crank - intoxicated , " study authorswrote in their newspaper in 2010 .

" Methamphetamine has been present in arrest - related expiry fount in which an electronic control twist ( ECD ) was used . The principal intent of this study was to determine the cardiac effects of an ECD in a deoxyephedrine intoxication mannequin . "

The researchers took sixteen Dorset sheep ( upright to be thorough ) and   anesthetized them , before giving them   Methedrine hydrochloride intravenously and   monitoring their heart rates . 30 minutes subsequently , they were shell out shocks by darts inserted into their chest , near their sternum .

The sheep were given first a 5 - second continuous photo from a Taser , then a   15 - second intermittent picture , a   30 - second intermittent exposure , and finally a grueling   40 - endorsement intermittent picture . As a control , of course , some of the sheep were not mellow on glass at the meter .

No animal   experienced ventricular fibrillation , where the centre beats with rapid , erratic electrical whim , though believably woke up with a meth hangover and a belief that something very odd just go on .