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  1. thelee says:

    first!

  2. Sir Gallivant says:

    FIRST
    But not the vid, that’s an oldie (but goodie, though)

  3. Dynasty says:

    first

  4. dan says:

    “i’m the only one in this room professional enough that i know of to carry this glock40″ *BANG*

    NEVER put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot!

  5. yep yep says:

    Old vid.

  6. LawRents says:

    Five-O First!

  7. Matt says:

    first?!

  8. Seth says:

    First!

    Into your face loser!

  9. failboat says:

    old as the internet itself GG

  10. jordawesome says:

    So. Awesome. Watch out for that planetarium projector.

  11. smileymcgee says:

    first

  12. Captain Weiner says:

    FIRST!!! *BANG!*

  13. Avis says:

    Why is it that the only people “professional” enough to carry/hold a gun like that are in no way “professional” enough to be speaking publicly?

  14. Ponky says:

    because.. you fail?

  15. MEH. says:

    Worst part is he’ll never live that down with his coworkers…ever…

  16. alamgir a. hasan says:

    Gun Safety rule #1:
    Always wear a helmet (under bellybutton)

  17. thevictor says:

    It’s hard to tell from this clip, but for those who haven’t seen the full one: yes, he DID shoot himself, and he carried on with the speech for a while afterward.

  18. Nicki says:

    Dude, he is so fired.

  19. bill says:

    C’mon now, Vera, put that razor away! (pulls gun) I’m warnin’ ya, put that razor away, or I’m gonna shoot your pinky toe off! Vera: Oh! Now your gonna shoot me in my pinky toe. Quick: Bitch, I’m not playin’. You gonna be the nine-toe havingest, limpin’est bitch in Harlem, you don’t put that razor away!

  20. MJ says:

    Don’t you know who that is? It’s Booker T! King Booker can fire a gun anywhere he likes and using words like “‘dat” just show that he’s better than the english language

  21. aa says:

    But I bet it made a huge impression on those kids. Goal accomplished.Big win.

    • Odo Trip says:

      Next, he’ll demonstrate the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street by stepping out in front of an oncoming bus.

  22. Marius says:

    He just found the last clown car riding immigrant sneaking out from under the desk

  23. sam-the-man says:

    Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

  24. r0dr160 says:

    I was worried for the guy on the front row.

    “i’m the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this glock40…
    BANG BRAINS OUT”

  25. Purrevil says:

    I scooted out to the internet to see how big a Glock 40 is and found info about Special Agent Lee Paige. As in, right after, he asked his assistant to hand him an assault rifle and the audience screamed, “Put it down!!” And he filed a lawsuit against the government because he couldn’t work undercover and the DEA banned him from public speaking. Oh yes, the audience was a room full of children. That ought to build confidence in our police force.

  26. bob says:

    It’s more like “Glock weapon design epic fail”

  27. Hags says:

    Umm yeah I would like to see the whole video please because if I remember correctly that was done on purpose to make a point n’ the gun was only loaded with an emptied blank(primer only, like a cap gun). Henceforth making this a gun saftey WIN as it was being done to demonstrate a point n’ not make assumptions. However if it is not the video I’m thinking of then it could be a fail, it just depends on if it is done on purpose or not. Kinda like the gun saftey course out here, the teacher left a gun loaded with a blank on his table n’ didn’t come in until 10 min went by or he heard the gun go off, n’ it’s all done that way just to make a point of how easy it is to have an accident. Well thats just my thoughts.

    • Sara J says:

      That’s a rather unethical experiment.

    • drb says:

      That’s pretty damn dangerous, as a blank round can cause death, or at least major injury, if it goes off with the barrel pointed right next to someone. Like when the actor Jon Erik Hexum aimed a prop gun loaded with blanks at his head and pulled the trigger, apparenty just to be funny, but the shockwave from the blank killed him, even with no bullet. So leaving idiots and a blank-filled gun alone in a room unsupervised is just asking for critical fail, unless he’s doing that hoping for an eventual Darwin win.

      And even if the gun in the video was loaded with blanks, that had to have hurt his leg, as well as everyone’s ears. I don’t think he would have injured himself and children’s ears like that just to prove a point, unless he really didn’t realize what a blank firing would be like in that enclosed space.

      • Lunchbox says:

        So, JUST the primer isn’t deadly? Really???? Why don’t you track down Brandon Lee, and see what HE thinks of that? Oh, wait, you can’t. Why? BECAUSE HE’S DEAD, YOU MORON!!!

        • Dragonwriter says:

          No more caffeine for you, darlin’.

          Scotch instead?

          *pours*

          • ErickB says:

            Alright, I’ve seen this on here a couple of times now. Just for clarification, I thought Brandon Lee was killed by a bullet that had been lodged in the barrel of the gun earlier and when a ‘blank’ was fired it expleed the bullet.
            *pours a Guinness*

            • Marius says:

              Can not remember where I read this so I can not confirm . . . But I believe it was the special effects in the shopping bags he carried that drove debris into his chest thus killing him. Can anyone else confirm this??

    • Robert says:

      That is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of. The teacher should have his carry permit revoked, and if there are teaching credentials to be yanked, that too. A blank can still kill someone at close range. I recall the actor Jon-Erik Hexum killed himself on the set of the TV series “Cover Up” with a gun loaded with blanks. I can easily see some bully kid holding that “object lesson” to the head of some other kid and pulling the trigger.

    • Calum says:

      No. He shot himself in the foot (and came very close to killing himself). And your suggestion is a really stupid one; a blank shell can still injure up to several metres away. At close range, or if there was debris in the barrel, it could kill.

  28. loey says:

    What I’d like to know is how many lawsuits were filed after this gun safety presentation.

    O I seem to recall the next section of this video being, literally, he reaches for the semi-automatic weapon, and the teacher says, No, don’t do that, we should stop now, or or something to that effect.

  29. OH my gosh!!! That is hilarious! Did he shoot himself?!

  30. By night: gun safety instructor.
    By day: mall ninja.
    http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

    • smacky says:

      “I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls.” Oh, that is such good stuff…

  31. Tracy says:

    That guy had been a DEA agent for 14 years when he blew a hole in his foot in a room full of kids. After shooting off that glock, he picked up a rifle to demonstrate. The kids were having none of that, so he left the room. Then he filed a lawsuit against the gov’t.

    Articles can be found here http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6061397-7.html?part=rss&tag=6061397&subj=news
    and here http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html

  32. Tracy says:

    Hags, are you sure about a teacher leaving a gun out loaded with “blanks” just to teach kids a gun safety lesson?

    Blanks are still fired out of the gun with a small charge of gun powder and can be deadly.

    Back in 1984, actor Jon Erik Hexum killed himself that way, by goofing around with a prop gun loaded with blanks. He was unaware of the fact that a projectile is still fired through the gun barrel.

  33. shadowfax says:

    Old but funny. There’s a long version out there somewhere, where the guy goes on to pick up another gun and is shouted down by the crowd until he puts it down again.

  34. bill says:

    I don’t think its quite that old. They should have posted the entire video.

  35. wolfgangmunzerl2 says:

    Maybe he thought he was playing Halo

  36. Happy in Haliburton says:

    poop in pants win!

  37. Spike says:

    Woah! This isn’t even funny!

  38. yofo says:

    How is this only 4 1/2 thumbs down, this is the ultimate fail.

  39. pun_isher says:

    It’s a win, in WW1 soldiers used to shoot themselves in the foot to get out of the trenches, this guy just wanted to get out of class.

  40. Odo Trip says:

    Shooting off at the mouth, immediately followed by shooting off his toe. Instant Karma.

  41. SteelSkin says:

    Shooting himself with an unloaded gun on a lecture about gun security…

    This is priceless.

  42. Kln says:

    “And that’s why, children, the sale and the use of guns are very restricted in most of today’s modern countries (except you-know-where). Now, if you excuse me, I must go to the hospital…”

    In any case : self-control wins.
    At his place, I would have rolled on the floor crying.

  43. skeeballmaster says:

    this is totally fake.

  44. Gollum says:

    *anxiously awaits hand grenade demonstration

  45. who cares says:

    oldie but a goodie.

  46. dlh says:

    fake. not nearly loud enough. also no muzzle flare. also no ricochet?

    • cobrajoe says:

      Fail at proving a fake.

      Most microphones cannot capture the true sound of a gunshot. The sound is much too fast and too loud to be accurately captured.

      Muzzle flare is only visible if the surrounding area is dark, and then it’s not even that bright. In a bright room, it’s completely invisible.

      Lastly, there are many reasons why a bullet wouldn’t ricochet. Maybe the bullet hit the cement floor squarely, completely squashing the bullet and killing any momentum. Maybe the floor was wood underneath. Maybe the bullet got lodged in his foot. Maybe it ricocheted into the wall behind him. In any case, you couldn’t distinguish that sound from the initial blast.

      Besides, there is a complete video of this guy on youtube. He is in obvious pain and he tries to continue his speech.

      • ErickB says:

        Oh and if its on youtube it must be real… :shock:

      • gijoseph says:

        yes, too fast for the sound to pick it up, but what if we tried recording it on slow motion sound? Like the kind on those fancy slow motion cameras? Also, this is obviously a fake and anybody who says otherwise is clearly just trying to take our guns away. Corbajoe is probably a communist.

  47. FAIL says:

    I’m the only one on this board professional enough to FAIL

  48. Alexis says:

    LOL! I saw this video five years ago in my police training. We were basically told “Never do this!” I was told that agent ended up suing the person who made the video because he claimed he could never work again due to the public loss of confidence in his work. Needless to say, I ALWAYS double check my weapon (slide locked back, visual and physical inspection of the chamber) before I say that it is secure.

  49. Greenbandit says:

    It’s probably been said already (whoa that’s a lot of comments) but total credibility fail!

  50. Awesome says:

    244th!

  51. Failuritis says:

    ‘I’m the only one professional enough to– *FAIL*’

  52. hi says:

    this is the oldest video ever. fail

  53. ej says:

    …..”I’m the only one professional enough in THIS room to carry a Glock-40, that I know of”……

    POP!!

    My what a well trained police officer. I REALLY would NOT want my life OR YOURS in THAT guy’s hands. Those people in that room are lucky that they all came out alive.

    WTF

  54. Prophetnoise says:

    The first thing you learn… the very first thing they teach when learning to handle guns is “there’s no such thing as an unloaded gun. Treat EVERY gun as if it’s loaded.”

    If he’s an armed cop, allowed on the streets with a loaded weapon, that’s a bad thing. Especially if he forgot this very first safety rule. Arm myself to the teeth to protect me against cops like him. Or maybe he’s just wearing the Police Shirt for style.

    • Prophetnoise says:

      Also, i know it was off-screen, but it didn’t seem like he checked the chamber & clip, which is the first thing you do when handed a weapon… and goes hand in hand with treating every gun like it’s loaded.

      And he didn’t seem to do too great of a job at making sure to always have the barrel of the gun pointing away from people. Never point a gun at anyone unless you intend to kill them.

      • Robert says:

        Sorry, I am no gun expert, but how did this gun go off? I heard him press the trigger and it just clicked. The second time it fired. I assume this is what you mean by checking the clip too. So the gun can actually hold the the ‘clip amount of bullets’ plus one in the chamber? If a guy this qualified can make a mistake in a moment of carelessness, no wonder there are so many gun related accidents.

        The ‘funny part’ was what he was actually saying just before the accident: “I am the only one in this room that I know of professional enough to hold the Glock40″. Priceless!

        • Prophetnoise says:

          (i don’t have first hand experience with this particular gun, and it’s been a while since i’ve been active with them) What probably happened was there was no bullet in the chamber, but a bullet in the cartridge. the first the chamber was open, but that first click you heard was the chamber closing, not the trigger. When it closed, it put the bullet from the cartridge into the chamber. He now had a loaded, armed pistol with the safety off. (Anyone more familiar with this piece can absolutely correct me)

          I might disagree about a ‘guy this qualified’ making such a careless mistake, and it’s correlation to gun related accidents. I don’t think that there are that many gun related accidents when compared to how many gun owners there are. I grew up around many gun owners/hunters, and there was never an accident, and never any carelessness around guns. But we can go back and forth on this subject all day, and not ever find common ground. I’d question his qualification before anything else.

          But yeah “I’m the only one in this room that i know of professional enough to hold the Glock 40″, BOOM. Bull-shit. Your ‘qualified’ ass just broke gun safety rules i’ve been following since i was 10 years old.

          Self awareness fail; qualification fail; full of himself fail; responsibility fail; educating people about guns fail. Pretty much fail all around.

          • mci says:

            *** What probably happened was there was no bullet in the chamber, but a bullet in the cartridge. ***

            “Magazine,” not “cartridge.” The cartridge IS the bullet, plus casing, powder and primer. Sheesh.

            Impress us more with your vast knowledge of firearms.

  55. thepowerofblue says:

    All he wants to do is a *three gun shots* and a *painful scream* lose his dignity!

  56. carlos says:

    tenia q ser un negro

  57. Mr. Failtastic says:

    I just epic failed. I was looking at failblog and I laughed so hard that I was gasping for breath. While I was doing that I failed by hitting my lamp with my hand causing the bulb to go out.
    -facepalm-

  58. Poofter says:

    NRA FAIL

    Gun Control WIN

    Gun owners = “Compensators”

  59. Bimmy says:

    Classic FAIL. Almost as bad as a Terry Kath fail

  60. kea says:

    Is this how Mark Hamill is going to go? Yikes.

  61. winxey says:

    OMG !!!!! THAT COULD HAVE KILLED SOMEONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

  62. czuhc says:

    Is it a good idea to say “first” already for the next fail ? Just to be, you know, like…first ?

  63. BBBBB says:

    I call fake. Why would someone film this in the first place?

  64. df30 says:

    Amerika, LOL

  65. why-wasn't-he-fired? says:

    the glock action is unable to be accidentally discharged because of the integral safety incorporated into the action… your booger hook has to press the Bang button then it will go BANG! no accident about it. …and as a law enforcement officer, he should have been FIRED that very day and no longer be allowed to even think of carrying a badge…or even a gun … imho.

  66. Ereinion says:

    The longer version of that video is even better, as he try to keep going with his demonstration… Priceless!

  67. mspasNet says:

    this policeman is an idiot!

  68. Silly says:

    Jeeesus…I dont know if this is fake or for real…. to laugh or to feel sorry.

  69. operator says:

    Nth!

  70. Me says:

    You are all my bitches.

  71. HvsL says:

    So, I had a friend who went to Police Academy, and the day they got to use real ammo, they were in the hall after their turn on the firing range, and someone had apparently forgotten to change back to blanks.
    They ended up almost shooting the officer in charge; missed by about 6 inches. They framed it as a reminder of WHY YOU MUST CHANGE BACK!
    Side note, they apparently also learned who would do well and who would not. My friend looked around like WTF? but apparently a few people just hauled off running.

  72. rorschach69 says:

    I can’t believe this guy is teaching gun safety when the smartest rule of gun safety is always assume every gun you handle is loaded unless you check it yourself.

  73. abitarroza says:

    Did he shoot himself in the foot? Tsk. Funny, though. :)

  74. THC says:

    When did Wyclef Jean join the police force?

  75. dont give that guy s gun uh oh way too late

  76. Jonny says:

    Pride goeth before the fail…

  77. deezle says:

    “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to carry a gun.” **BAM** Hilarious!! Talk about timing.

  78. Meeshee says:

    just tell me he got fired. Please.

  79. T says:

    wish you had shown the whole video, If I remember correctly he tries to act like nothing happened but can’t take it for long.

  80. .duck says:

    Grenade? oh my GOD!!

  81. CJ Tha Kid says:

    cheddar bob

    |the kid|

  82. Black-Raven says:

    FIRST!
    sorry but id just ad to fit in with the other people who posted first when for obviously not fist,
    this video reminded me when my friend shot him self in the foot point blank when were playing paintball. the game hadn’t even started yet XD

  83. Hen says:

    how the hell did he manage to discharge it?

  84. Mike says:

    Is this guy related to Plaxico Burress???

  85. hotfuzz459 says:

    not loaded my ass!

  86. parks says:

    I would tell him to shoot hisself, but…

  87. jorgen says:

    “I am the only one in this room professional enough to handle a glock…”
    thank goodness for professionals

  88. chris says:

    Here’s the longer version. He tries to show off a bigger gun.

  89. Whatever says:

    The original video is longer…later his assistant pulls out a machine gun, the audience becomes nervous and ask her to put it down XD

  90. Papa Darwin says:

    A Bald-faced reminder of an extremely important fact of firearms handling: there are only two types of firearms discharges: intentional and negligent. It’s also a blatant reminder that even the most professional douches can shoot themselves. Remember, kiddies: never, ever point a weapon at anything you do not intend to permanently alter. Happily, the only thing that this world-class douche managed to alter was his own physiology. It would have truly been tragic had someone gotten injured…

  91. JonnoJ says:

    “I’m the only one professional enough in this room to carry a Glock-40″ as he forgets about the one in the chamber and shoots himself in his foot… Dumb ass for got that you always keep the gun loaded when you have it in your belt.

  92. justathought says:

    ha the wonderful training of the dea the entire war on drugs is a fail.

  93. Jayen4 says:

    You lot are cracking me up with your silly comments ! Behave will ya,I can’t watch the vids for crying ! lol
    ” I’m the only one professionall enough”….yeah,riiiiight !

  94. trusts says:

    OW. what are they doing?

  95. Mr right says:

    The real fail is that this guy talks about a Glock40….. which doesn’t even exist according to http://www.glock.com ! :-)

    He’s probably confusing it with .40 caliber.


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