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  • I have to go back twice a year for zappings and slicings.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo. 2010

  • You might think that before any child receives a series of 70 to 170 volts of brain zappings and is thrown into epilepsy-like seizures, every other nontraumatic therapy would have been attempted.

    Bruce E. Levine: Are We Really Okay with Electroshocking Toddlers? 2009

  • Last night CBC reported that, contrary to what he led the public safety committee to believe, Elliott had actually relaxed the 2005 restrictions on multiple zappings, removing the following rule from the RCMP operational manual on conducted energy weapons :

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dave 2009

  • Last night CBC reported that, contrary to what he led the public safety committee to believe, Elliott had actually relaxed the 2005 restrictions on multiple zappings, removing the following rule from the RCMP operational manual on conducted energy weapons :

    RCMP : Getting away with murder Alison 2009

  • This freeze problem is psychologically worse than other zappings - you see what you typed, at least the tail end of it, but there is nothing you can do with it.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2005

  • Dogged by repeated reports of pet zappings across the city, Toronto Hydro will spend $6 million to pull out its metal sidewalk plates.

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • It allows the biologically innocent a significantly deeper understanding of the world than their daily doses of virtual mass shootings, bombings, zappings and killings that video games,

    Craig Daily Press stories 2009

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