# Tasering someone in contact with another person.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasering-someone-in-contact-with-another-person/614719>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasering-someone-in-contact-with-another-person/614719 "2012-03-04T12:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasering-someone-in-contact-with-another-person/614719/1 "2012-03-04T12:12:41Z")

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[Marine who beat wife unconscious in front of judge](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109858/Marine-gets-15-years-bars-viciously-beating-wife-unconscious-judge.html?ICO=most_read_module)

Awful story. It says they had to taser him twice. If he was still touching his ex-wife would she had been shocked too (not that it would have made much difference to her at that point)?

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**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasering-someone-in-contact-with-another-person/614719/2 "2012-03-04T12:35:40Z")

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No. A taser shoots two wires at a person, and the current flows between the wires.