11.18.2006

Last time I promise

I made a vow to stop making posts that were only embedded videos, but this is the last one (at least for today). I found this on PC World's "13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments". This is #2, and you can see why. I don't know how I managed to miss this, so it might be old news to you.

DEA AGENT SHOOTS OWN FOOT
Never mind that in 2004 some misguided Florida children's group invited Lee Paige, a 45-year-old Drug Enforcement Agency officer, into an auditorium with a loaded gun to demonstrate weapons handling. That's bad enough, but the bigger embarrassment is actually Paige's, which came just after he told the young kids, "I'm the only one in the room that I know of that's professional enough to carry a Glock .40." Paige promptly shot himself in the foot.



While watching someone shoot themselves in the foot is rather enjoyable in and of itself, I think the best part of the video is the audience's reaction when he asks an assistant for an even larger gun after the shooting occurs.