Stupid Human Tricks

Is there anything some idiot won’t put on TV these days?

A game of Russian Roulette with a real, loaded gun is slated to be broadcast live on British television this Sunday in what is being billed as the ultimate reality-TV stunt.

“It is a real gun with a real bullet and I am really putting it against my head,” said Derren Brown a self-styled “psychological illusionist.”

Brown plans to pull the trigger of a 348 Smith & Wesson several times, sensing which chamber the bullet is in, and plans to point the gun away from his body and fire the killer shot harmlessly into the air.

“If I am not 100 percent sure, I will not pull the trigger,” Brown said, admitting, “It would be humiliating but it would be preferable to the other consequences.”

Apparently they do have some limits, though.

The show will air on a several-second delay in case Brown shoots himself. If that happens, viewers will not see the gun fire into his head. Instead, the screen will go blank and display a message advising viewers what’s happened.

I think this guy may be in the running as a Darwin Award candidate.  Idiot.

2 Comments

  1. bushranger says:

    if anybody really thinks that this bozo has really loaded a gun without palming the bullet first, well …..

  2. Tim says:

    Nope – he didn’t palm the bullet – he fired it into the wall after firing the empty chambers at his head. Top class stunt in the same league as Houdini – Bravo!