OK, we’re not so sure about that first part, but Papa John’s definitely hires them some tenacious pizza delivery dudes. Their unidentified driver (not pictured above) pulled up to a Daytona Beach apartment complex Monday evening and struck up a conversation with a guy who then hit him with about 600,00o volts. “Despite being shocked in the belly by a stun gun, a pizza delivery man refused to give up two pies to a robbery suspect trying to grab them from his hands.” Not sure if it was smart strategically, but he showed an admirable sense of duty. The pizza pilferer was picked up a little later on. Should it have been a DGU? You tell us.
Tasers are a bit of a different thing, at least when the probes enter far enough apart. The old fashion stun guns are somewhat painful and can cause some difficulty with localized muscle weakness/involuntary contraction in the affected area but are by no means debilitating. Further, the ‘belly’ is perhaps the worst target as the device needs to contact muscle to work properly.
As for a DGU, this isn’t about food, or the relative lethality or lack their of regarding the weapon used. The question here is would a reasonable person fear death or great bodily harm given the circumstances know at the time?
A stranger attacks me with a weapon designed to incapacitate me, my concern is that he will attempt kidnap or murder once I’m incapacitated, thus it meets the standard for self defense use of lethal force. Personally, a stranger comes at me with a stun gun I’m going to attempt to flee, but with gun out and prepared to shoot to end the threat.