I saw trooper Wooten interviewed on tv about the charges. He explained the taser incident, stupid, but not a full on tasering.. the family was hanging around in the living room after Wooten got back from training in tasering and his son wanted to know what it felt like. He did not use a charged taser, but put some pillows around and then let the boy have a little shock from it, like touching a low voltage electric fence, he said, and the family all laughed and goofed around about it. So, when I first heard "tasered his son" I thought of something more extreme than what he described. YES it was STUPID, but the Palins have certainly milked it. And Wooten was disciplined for all he did wrong and the case was investigated and closed after the discipline.