They're selling SOCIAL DISTANCE ZAPPERS in post offices in the UK

[Nevilledog]

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Very tempting.....

[FalloutShelter]

1. ...and hilarity ensued.

[Deuxcents]

2. Wish I had thought of that

Someone is gonna make a couple of bucks.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. I want one

It could really help with perverts on crowded busses. Zzap! Keep your hands to yourself,asshole.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Great idea!

[Dial H For Hero]

4. There's a reason it's so cheap. It's worthless.

It doesn’t “zap” people. From what I’ve read, it barely elicits a tingle.

[brooklynite]

5. I see an assault charge is some people's future.

[Ms. Toad]

13. I'm about to teach torts to 130 brand new baby lawyers-to-be starting Saturday

I have the hypothetical already half-drafted . . .

[ornotna]

6. Available at Books A Million

https://m.booksamillion.com/p/Social-Distance-Zapper/Kikkerland-Design/F612615106734

[Initech]

7. Futurama predicted this!

[Brother Mythos]

9. Zapping someone with one of those toys sounds like a good way to get one shoved up where ...

the sun don't shine.

[Volaris]

10. Ooooohh... kinky lol.

We jest, but theres a reason objects like curling irons have warnings that say 'for external use only'. ...its cause some dummy 'repurposed' them without thinking it through first.

[Brother Mythos]

11. I'll allow that an angry shover might find it a bit kinky. The shovee ... not so much.

[Volaris]

14. Not sure about that lol...have you seen the rest of the internet?

[Dial H For Hero]

12. One can buy the real thing here in the US, the Zap Cane.

Instead of delivering a pointless 4.5 volts, this is rated at one million volts.

$80, but thoroughly illegal in the UK.