A mesmerizing look at a taser being fired in super slow-motion

The Slow Mo Guys — a YouTube channel dedicated to filming action shots in super slow motion — released a cringeworthy video of one of their cameramen getting bare body tazed.

The video starts with a couple of incredible slow motion shots of the Taser being deployed: one side shot followed by a frontal.

Dan Hafen, the volunteer for this experiment, is introduced at 1:50 of the video and soon takes off his shirt to capture the full prong penetration. OUCH.

Watch his muscles contract from the point of impact to the rest of his back like a water rippling in a pond after a stone is tossed in.

His face says it all.

Here’s the barbed prong being pulled out of his skin.

Service members authorized to carry Tasers have to pass a written test and be able to effectively engage a target with a minimum of two Taser cartridges before they can carry a Taser. Once they complete training, they have the option to get tazed, according to the Air Force.

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