To be "tasered" is to be briefly paralysed by an electrically charged dart fired from one of the firm's stun guns, usually by police seeking to pacify someone without resort to firearms.
They include those who believe Kennedy was first hit in the throat with a bullet made of ice; that a man in Dealey Plaza fatally wounded the president with a dart fired from an umbrella; and that J. Edgar Hoover attended a party the night before the assassination celebrating JFK's imminent demise.
Soon spider monkeys were crashing down from the canopy after being hit by poisoned darts fired from blowpipes.
Ten days ago Ammon Bundy, 38, one of 14 Bundy children, was hit with stun gun darts fired by BLM agents during a confrontation.
He observed the customs of indigenous inhabitants: how totally naked women could still exhibit modesty; how Indians hunted birds (with curare-tipped darts fired from ten-foot-long blowpipes, a technique that he tried but failed to master).
In addition, soldiers are allowed to use ammunition capable of killing at very long range, such as bombs weighing hundreds of kilograms dropped by aircraft, and flechette shells (which are composed of darts) fired by tanks.
After being struck by a love-dart fired by Cupid, Pluto falls for Proserpine and claims her as his queen.
Some writers have commented on the parallel between the love darts of snails and the love darts fired by the mythological being Cupid, known as Eros in Greek mythology.
After shooting a tiger with a tranquiliser dart and firing a crossbow at a whale from a speedboat, Putin rounded off 2010 by singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's Blueberry Hill.
The tranquiliser dart was fired from a modified shotgun at the rump using a 24 cml7 ml aluminium syringe dart with a 3 mm 'collared' needle.
A snail does not have a dart to fire the very first time it mates, because the first mating is necessary to trigger the process of dart formation.
