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PLEASE watch the video at wtnh.com.  This news station local to this incident shows that much of the "facts", as written above, are incorrect.

The video, as is on WTNH.com, shows the camera / "weapon" at the police station (shown on counter top).  The Sergeant at the Clinton Station goes on to say this is a modified camera.  One look at the camera and what you see is an open and UNMODIFIED CAMERA.  No add ons, no nails or paper clips, no soldering added to the circuit board, no tape, no stripped wires, no added capacitors or power . . . NOTHING changed.  When a story like this gets sent literally around the world and you do not go back to the source to check on the "facts", you make mistakes. 

In this video, the boys dad shocks himself just as the children actually did voluntarily at the school.  He is just touching the circuit board.  There you see the lack of information that the police have regarding this incident.  This is alarming given the police invited the media into the station to view the weapon, put it on the air, after booking a 14 year old on a Class D felony.   One would think that the police might research what the modifications of a disposable camera would be to make a stun weapon.  One look at the camera and you see none of these. 

Please Fix this on your site.  Consider if you were this kid.  In your town, everyone "knows" or thinks they "know" because so many web sites picked up the story from AP, MSNBC, FOX and the like. 

Maybe the right lead on this article should be "Police mistake consumer electronics for weapon!"    Here is the page WTNH.com/global/story.asp?s=8108621.  Click at top of story for the video.