# Is this video footage real? (Soldiers acting foolish -\> gunshot wound) \[new title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 9, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825 "2005-09-09T15:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sequent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Sequent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sequent)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/21 "2005-09-11T05:17:53Z")
> [@butler1850](#): > > William Tell’s assistant was the last idiot to attempt this stunt. You’re forgetting [William S. Burroughs’ wife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S_Burroughs#Beginnings_as_a_writer_in_Mexico_City). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/22 "2005-09-11T05:50:44Z")
This sure looks fake to me. But for what it’s worth, I have seen a real video of a cop shooting himself in the leg while conducting a gun safety class. ---
**Author:** ![Jake4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jake4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake4)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/23 "2005-09-11T16:01:15Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > This sure looks fake to me. But for what it’s worth, I have seen a real video of a cop shooting himself in the leg while conducting a gun safety class. Yeah, that’s a good one. The guy accidently fires a round into himself with “an empty weapon” and keeps talking about gun safety. Then he asks his assistant to hand him a rifle. The audience is audibly disturbed and one lady yells out “Put it down!” [Cop Shoots Himself in Foot](http://www.planetvids.com/html/Cop-Shoots-Himself-in-the-Foot.html) “See how accidents happen?” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/24 "2005-09-11T16:46:48Z")
> [@rabbit](#): > > well as for whether or not real people would do something that stupid I submit to you the Darwin awards. You know no one fact-checks those. A very significant percentage of them are completely fabricated. ---
**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/25 "2005-09-12T03:50:36Z")
ok, so the general concencus is “fake” due to crappy video, cool thanks. 🙂 I didn’t really think too much of the quality, and figured the “training video” part was added on as a joke, but I will say I thought it plausible. Ah well. > [@Cisco](#): > > You know no one fact-checks those. A very significant percentage of them are completely fabricated. I can’t vouch for the veracity of them, but I have had personal experience with several gidgets that would’ve been shoe ins. Well if they had actually died of their stupidity rather than just been injured. Never underestimate teenage idioticy. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825/26 "2005-09-12T13:45:08Z")
I generally never underestimate people’s stupidity. What exactly looks “fake” about the video? It’s not like it’s a video of a couple guys shooting a dinosaur or anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-footage-real-soldiers-acting-foolish-gunshot-wound-new-title/320825.md?page=1)