Women hold home parties for Tupperware, Pampered Chef, candles, fondue, bad art, even adult toys. So nobody should be shocked to hear that out in Arizona Dana Shafman has been holding Taser parties, getting singles, wives, moms and grandmothers to buy pretty pink stun guns at $350 a clip.
Taser has a booth at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas set up to look like a living room where Shafman will hold one of her gatherings for business people showing how she sells the company's C2 model to women who feel they need such protection.
One of Shafman's potential customers already told AP what would be a great ad slogan: "You don't want to kill somebody. You just want to be safe, you know?"
But if Taser conquers the home market, we can see the inevitable accident: Someone reaches for a cell phone, mistakenly grabs a C2 and stuns herself while multitasking on the Kennedy, causing an accident and massive traffic jam.
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I'm disappointed. When you said "Taser party", I assumed you meant something kool, like that it was a sort of thing where women would test-fire tasers on each other to learn their effects-kind of like what certain police departments do. Now that would be interesting.
Saw this on tv in December and wrote to the lady who owns the firm, after hearing her say you could CARRY a teaser in Illinois IF you had a FOID card (the one issued by the state to purchase ammunition). She wrote back and said yes that is correct. Is it????