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From two D cells? Well, I failed physics in the Rainbarrel thread, so
I'll try again. How can 2 D cells produce enough
voltage/amperage/whatever to shock a person?

Guess you've never seen a cattle prod in use. The older ones run on D
cells. I think they use 4 or 6 of them. The newer ones seem to be
rechargable.
http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/cattleprods.html

They'll shock a cow real fast, and there is a large arc and loud snap.
I've seen them in use. I'd sure hate to get zapped with one.
If I ever find one cheap at a garage sale or auction, I'll buy it just
to open it and play with the electronics inside. (I dont own cattle,
and would not use it on them if I did..... seems cruel).


Back in the day, when I was a cop, one or two officers had 6-cell Maglite
flashlights. Except that the flashlight contained only FIVE cells. The space
formerly taken up by the bottom D-cell contained an, um, "goblin getter,"
attached to two 1/4" pins in the base of the flashlight.

If the stink-eye wouldn't cooperate by following some simplest request
("Okay, asshole, what is the largest prime number less than 100,000? Eh?
Eh?"), he, or rarely she, could be encouraged to follow a righteous path.
Sometimes for as long as ten minutes!

In police equipment catalogs, I've seen punk-prods thinly disguised as
regulation batons.