FW: [BNW] Need a quick answer

["Olivier, Jason" <Jason.Olivier@LibertyMutual.com>]

<How would a kevlar vest effect being hit by a stun baton? 
I would think that the extra thickness would block the arc, but I don't 
honestly know for sure if the stuff inside the vest is conductive or not. 

Also, what do you think the odds of someone hitting a guy with a stun 
baton in the chest noticing that he's got a vest on? In a fairly calm 
situation (non-combat)? 

 Theo McGuckin - 
        "It's not worth it" >

I posed this question to my friend who has played for quite sometime and he
was also a police officer for 5 years. His response is below.

Jason Olivier
"The first person to send a mail note to the BNW List except for AB"
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> Whether they decide to hit him in the chest or not depends on their
> knowledge of the vest's properties, not so much that the vest is there.
> Also, the chest is the largest and easiest to hit target. Police are
> trained only to aim for the chest. Non-combat or otherwise, trying to
> 'wing' someone in the leg or arm is just too difficult (Game terms: apply
> many minuses to their role to target a limb).
> 
> Otherwise, a Kevlar vest is non-conductive. But it does not defy the law
> of physics, so the jolt of the force would still be there. (Game terms:
> character would feel the jolt and it might even knock him down depending
> on its voltage, but I'd think that he would receive no actual damage.)
> 
> Of course, I don't know the game system, but that's my opinion and you
> heard it here first. 
> 
> John 
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