Brickbat: How Do You Say 'Oops' in French?

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A French police sniper accidentally fired a shot, injuring two people, during a speech by President Francois Hollande.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

In fairness, as a Frenchman, he is in constant fear for his safety. Le bon shoot.

[Libertarian]

Perhaps, but Hollande continued with his speech after a shot from an unknown gun in an unknown location. Can't imagine that occurring here in the U.S.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Might as well keep talking while you're waiting to surrender to the shooter.

[68W58]

Les allemands ne sont ne pas ? craindre, ils sont path?tiques et... (shot rings out)... comme je le disais, les allemands sont des guerriers redoutables et nous devons accepter leurs conditions imm?diatement.

[Memory Hole]

I'll try my French out here:

The Germans are not at "craindre", they are "pathetiques" and like I was saying, the Germans are (something about good at war) and we accept conditions of surrender immediately.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Teddy Roosevelt kept on talking for a couple of hours after actually being shot.

[Trigger Hippie]

"The bullet went through the canvas.Domaine de la Roman?e-Conti of the tent, where drinks were being made. It passed through a waiter's thigh and lodged in another person's calf."

*sniper scans area*

"[gasp!] Ze wine iz not Domaine de la Roman?e-Conti!!! Zuch swill ez intol?rabe!!! I zhall poot a ztop to thiz!!!

[Trigger Hippie]

Huh, quote fail.

[Will4Freedom]

What ever happened to "keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shot".

[spqr2008]

The French don't practice that at all. I was furious in 2003, when in Europe, (to be fair, this was the week the U.S. invaded Iraq), under the Eiffel Tower, the guards all the girls in my school group wanted pictures with had their fingers on the triggers of their FN-FAL rifles. So either 1) The rifles were unloaded and the soldiers were still idiots, or 2) The rifles were loaded, and they were relying on the safety to keep them from spraying bullets into a group of American school kids. If I spoke enough French, I would've asked them for their duty Sargent, and then asked him nicely how many pushups those gentlemen would be doing to learn their lesson.

[Timrekgrun]

The Germans at Frankfurt Airport had decent finger control but a few had that (probably subconscious) tendency to pluck the trigger guard when an Arabic looking male walked by.

[ace_m82]

Americans have gun culture. Most of the people you see with guns are (at least a little) part of that outside work. The market of gun culture has its own rules and regulations that are self-enforced and those who fail to listen are shamed.

Disarmed societies (or simply less armed societies) don't really have that. So, then it's just a question of the government using force against those people to submit. And we all know how easy it is to punish people in law enforcement, right?

For ever tale of "market failure", I've got a hundred about government failure.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

A sniper injured people? That guy needs to be relieved of duty.

[Timrekgrun]

Maybe it was a bait shot and he was waiting to get more kills when their buddies came out of cover to retrieve the wounded?

[Kristen Abides]

Gardez votre crochet booger hors de l'interrupteur bang-bang

[Kristen Abides]

Or..

Ne pas mettre votre crochet booger sur le commutateur bang-bang

[nuye]

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[Mongo]

Kudos to your online ad people : nice, goddamn Ivanka pic! Holy shit!

[CooterBrown]

Shockingly groovy!

[Dr No]

Vichy Swat

[Malvolio]

There's no such thing as an "accidental" shot. There is deliberate discharge and there is negligent discharge, and that's it.