World’s Strangest

Photo: Pat Shannahan/Wired.com What do you get when you cross a taser with a machine gun? Behold the Taser Shockwave, a weapon that fires 24 electrified probes at the same time in a single direction. It’s one example of Aaron Rowe’s Danger Room Blog gallery of 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist: Link

Forget tranquilizer darts – that’s the stuff of Hollywood. Real police officers use taser, even on a wayward emu: Authorities in Mississippi said they had to handcuff an emu and shock it with a Taser to remove the ostrich-like flightless bird from a roadway. Oh, and they used handcuffs, too. I’m assuming they meant emu legcuffs: Link [...]