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Zapping kids with 50,000-volt stun gun isn’t good for job advancement

‘Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ is a tradition in many places. After all what better way to have iPod listening, iPhone texting kids understand the hardships we go through each day to pay for that crap. However I think that showing them how the things you use each day at work isn’t meant to include a practical demonstration of how a 50,000-volt stun gun works – especially when you are demonstrating using your fellow workers children.

Such was the case with prison officer Walter Schmidt when he decided, apparently with the permission of the children’s parents, to give a practical real life experience by zapping them with the stun gun. This brilliant move resulted in at least two children sprawling to the floor in utter pain and burns on their arms. There was one child that ended up in the hospital as well.

Needless to say Schmidt, a 14 year veteran prison officer, is no longer employed by Florida Corrections, who has ordered an investigation into the whole matter.

[hat tip to the Daily Mail]