Post by ironhold on Aug 27, 2013 4:20:10 GMT
There appears to be a notion among some writers that if you shoot a tazer into even a small amount of water it will be enough to electrocute anyone who happens to be standing in it.
The "classic" version of this comes from the film "Timecop". In this one, a water cooler is knocked over during a fight inside someone's apartment; the water pools on the floor, and the bad guys get zapped when the barbs make contact. The hero, however, has done the splits and so his feet are on the counters.
Another version comes from an early volume of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga. A gang of thugs are operating out of an abandoned warehouse that has a rather leaky roof. When several gang members start chasing after one of the heroes, he hops up on a tire and shoots his tazer off at the ground.
IIRC, neither instance depicted the water as being very deep, and so one would think that the rubber in the shoes of the bad guys would be just enough to break the ground; I can only see this even vaguely happening if the water was just above their soles, meaning that the actual material in the shoes was getting wet.
The "classic" version of this comes from the film "Timecop". In this one, a water cooler is knocked over during a fight inside someone's apartment; the water pools on the floor, and the bad guys get zapped when the barbs make contact. The hero, however, has done the splits and so his feet are on the counters.
Another version comes from an early volume of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga. A gang of thugs are operating out of an abandoned warehouse that has a rather leaky roof. When several gang members start chasing after one of the heroes, he hops up on a tire and shoots his tazer off at the ground.
IIRC, neither instance depicted the water as being very deep, and so one would think that the rubber in the shoes of the bad guys would be just enough to break the ground; I can only see this even vaguely happening if the water was just above their soles, meaning that the actual material in the shoes was getting wet.
