FBI agent drops gun while doing a backflip

He should be.

Now let's see who tries to save his ass.

 

So I guess you can say that he was killing em on the dance floor.

 

If he could have got the gun to fire WHILE he was back flipping, that would have been thee SHIIIIT!

 

Stupid guy, pretty funny. Chase Bishop is his name.
his linkedin page said he was looking for work and lives in Virginia. The article says he works for the fbi and lives in Washington

 

See? Already looking for another job because the writings on the wall!

 

Goofy movie? As in the Disney character? Or you mean,like a goofy Judd Apatow or Adam Sandler movie?

 

I hate to judge anyone from my armchair, but in my opinion the guy should be fired.
We have all done stupid things during our lifetime, but a guy with training to protect top people should never panic. If he had calmly and carefully put his gun back in its holster, I doubt that anyone would have been particularly worried. But a guy in his position grabbing a gun and accidentally discharging it is unforgivable.
To me, it raises questions about both the selection and training of agents. I dread to think how this guy would have behaved in a real emergency situation.
The FBI have reason to be highly embarrassed.

 

Highly trained good guy with a gun...

 

Indeed. But then again ankle shots aren't fatal. Unless your name is Achilles

 

For that guy, every one of those apply

 

He's young. He probably hasn't been an agent all that long either. I'm wondering if he was there by himself or if any of his FBI buddies was there too? If that's the case, they should have intervened immediately and kept him from doing this stupid shit. Then again, maybe they wanted him to make a complete ass of himself, and knew it would come to this. They might not like him and gave him enough rope to hang himself.

 

Your assumptions may well be correct.
The whole thing really surprises me. Since I always assumed that the FBI officers were selected from serving police officers with a good track record. Somewhat similar to CID officers in the UK, But in our case it is all under one department.
All or our specialist officers dealing with areas such as CID, traffic, drugs units and dog units will have served about 5 years in routine policing, reached the rank of sergeant and be over 30 years old.
Some years ago, our police introduced a fast track career path for young people with a good degree. It was such a disaster that the idea was scrapped about a year later.
I laughed when I saw your video, thinking about haw our daughter would react if she was partnered with a guy like that. The mere thought of him being a police office in Germany made me laugh even more.

 

Yeah, you can't never replace years of experience with someone that just earned a degree. A lot of organizations tend to do that.

 

I have nothing against qualifications, but they are far better when they are obtained in conjunction with experience.
Some years ago, I had a broken seat reported 20 minutes before a performance. One of the regular, but less glamorous parts of running a busy theater when all the seats are sold.
We keep spare seat and back units and swapping them takes less than a minute, we then take the damaged unit to the workshop for repair, or more often cleaning. LOL
That evening, I sent a new engineer off to swap a base unit and got a panic call from the house manager just before the curtain went up, saying that he still had a member of the audience without a seat.
When I got to the auditorium, the guy was standing there looking puzzled. He told me that he could not replace the seat because the screws had a funny star shaped hole in their heads and no slot for his screwdriver. He had a first class honors degree in engineering.
I was less than happy when he told me that it was insulting for me to expect a theater engineer to replace a seat and that he was qualified to design rocket engines.
The only rocket engine that I would have given him would have been up his ass, but if he had designed it, I doubt that it would have worked after he had been unable to screw it together.
Needless to say, he left after a few weeks and joined the ranks of the highly qualified unemployed.

 

That's funny as hell! Someone thinking that they are beyond menial tasks. At that point, he really didn't care about supporting the successful operation of the theatre, and only about himself.

 

That's probably how the FBI is trained and expected to carry firearms on and off duty. I have a round chambered in mine when it's holstered whenever I conceal carry. If I need it in an emergency (life or death situation), every millisecond counts. I have never seen law enforcement chamber a round before engaging. They are firing as soon as it comes out of the holster. When this fool did his backflip, he didn't have all his senses about him when he landed, and he wasn't fully cognitive about trigger discipline at the moment. He only cared about quickly recovering what should have never been exposed in the first place. He was probably embarrassed, felt vulnerable, and being intoxicated certainly doesn't help.

 

People who have worked for what they have achieved are never like that. I remember the night of the premier of Gandhi when we were all rushing about and Richard Attenborough went off and made us all some tea. A couple of the young guys working with me looked quite shocked when he put the cup in front of them.
He made them laugh when he thanked them for all their hard work and said "with all this work in the theater, if people don't enjoy themselves tonight, it must be because of my rotten bloody film".
Almost all the great directors are easy to work with and genuinely appreciate the work of others.
Sadly, the idiots end up as shop managers and think that their staff will work better when they insult them and teat them like dirt.

 

I am well trained. It may not seem like it when you read some of the things I post here on HF, because Im here ultimately to have fun, goof off and socialize.
But when its time to be serious, my game-face is on. I don't know what type of firearm that was that the agent dropped, but, most law enforcement or armed security are issued or carry Glocks by choice. Where's the safety feature on Glocks? In the trigger.