Usage On Humans For Torture and Treatment
Prior to the development of stun batons and the taser, electric cattle prods were also used on humans. Their first common usage on humans occurred during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s; prods were first adopted by police officers in Alabama to use on black protesters and agencies elsewhere followed; Hotshot later developed an electric police baton. A more recent example of human torture with a cattle prod came to surface when a video was disclosed showing Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of crown prince of Abu Dhabi inserting a cattle prod in an Afghan business associate's anus after falling out with him. An electric prod can be an effective torture device for humans and animals alike. If applied continuously to the skin, the current eventually causes heating, searing, and burning and scarring of skin at the contact point.
During the movie Jackass 3D Johnny Knoxville set up a maze for his friends to go through made of cattle prods and tasers. At the 1998 Starracade pay-per-view Scott Hall used a cattle prode on Bill Goldberg allowing his friend Kevin Nash to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
The picana is an electric prod based originally on the cattle prod but designed specifically for human torture. It works at very high voltage and low current so as to maximise pain and minimise the physical marks left on the victim. Among its advantages over other torture devices is that it is portable, easy to use, and allows the torturer to localize the electric shocks to the most sensitive places on the body, where they cause intense pain that can be repeated many times.
Electric prods have been used for the control of adverse self-injuring behavior in mentally handicapped people. This use is regarded by some advocates to be more effective than drugs since the experience of a shock is very short and temporary while using a drug may have long-lasting sedative effects.
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