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April 30, 2004
DO AS I SAY, KIDS... NOT AS I DO
This story gave me what I can only describe as the most inappropriate laughing fit of the year today. The SpinDoc (who's sportin' a whole new look over in his corner of the blogsphere -- he revamped his entire site. His new layout makes my site look light years more amateurish -- it's a good thing my writing is so much better than his!) pointed this story out to me over instant messenger at work today... It sent me on a giggling fit that lasted a good two minutes and resulted in my having to read it aloud to several colleagues who were wondering what was so funny.
A DEA agent was invited to meet with a number of parents and children with the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association to discuss and demonstrate gun safety. He began to show the audience how to be sure the gun was empty and therefore safe. You know where this is going, don't you?
He shot himself in the leg.
"The kids screamed and started to cry," said Vivian Farmer, who attended the presentation with her 13-year-old nephew... "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns."
I guess it may say something about me that I giggled like a schoolgirl until tears welled in my eyes at a guy accidentally shooting himself. But how do you not laugh at a guy who gives a gun safety class and shoots himself in the process? Who do we have working for us in the DEA -- Inspector Clouseau? Austin Powers?
