Shocking news! Jack Cover has died!

[Oggiedoggie]

I know, I know, I'm another knucklehead starting a thread about someone nobody knows.

So, don't taze be bro!

Jack Cover, an aerospace scientist who invented the Taser stun gun -- a device used by thousands of law enforcement agencies to subdue unruly offenders with electrical shocks -- has died. He was 88.

Cover had Alzheimer's disease and died of pneumonia Saturday at the Golden West Retirement Home in Mission Viejo, said his wife, Ginny.

From: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-jack-cover13-2009feb13,0,4344955.story