This is short and sweet - big time law enforcement fail in Texas, courtesy of FAIL Blog (http://failblog.org/2008/11/12/taser-fail/):

A good effort, but for the all-time classic try this 2004 gun safety lecture in which a Drug Enforcement Agency operative demonstrates why you really shouldn't play with a Glock 40:

And before you start crying foul, here's Snopes' analysis (http://snopes.com/photos/accident/gunsafety.asp) of the incident. ®

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