Borat’s foiled gun purchase
Eggs sends us a link to Fox11 which recounts the time that Sacha Baron Cohen tried to trick a Riverside, California gun shop owner into selling him a gun;
“He comes in, off the bat you can see in the video I’m looking like, this guy does not look like a Hungarian immigrant, tight ass leather pants, a beard, it just didn’t fit,” [Norris] Sweidan said. “The moment his words came out of his mouth I was like this guy is full of s***.”
Sweidan told FOX 11 Cohen said he wanted to buy a gun, but said it with a very odd sounding accent he didn’t find credible.
“I’m looking at the producer and I’m just like am I being fooled right here?” Sweidan said. “And I just kept looking at the guy and I was like you’re Borat, as soon as I said that his eyes just looked at me like, and he did a turn right out the door.”
He says after Cohen left the store, he left his crew behind.
Sweiden suspects that Cohen had planned to use video clips to disparage gun owners and sellers on Cohens new TV show “Who is America?”. Sweiden is beginning work on his own show “Down the Barrel”.
This type of BS has been tried in the past and each time attempts to embarrass gun shop dealers has backfired.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Very alert shop owner.
A special shout out and a huge BZ to his quick take on Cohen/Borat’s ID!
I hope that Cohen gets punched out some day, but good, for his shenanigans.
I really, really, REALLy hope Cohen isn’t a citizen and went far enough for some Federal prosecutor to tack Cohen’s nuts to a grey cement wall for a nickel and gives him a don’t-come-back.
I think I remember reading about him getting beat up pretty badly trying his routine on a random guy in NYC back in 2006, I believe. The guy didn’t didn’t find his lewd comments directed at him to be very humorous and just let him have it.
Some people never learn.
Here’s hoping that he gets many more ass-beatings!
Would have been great if the owner had let him fill out the paperwork before blowing the whistle. Could change the name of his show to “Who is a Felon in America?”
It is too bad that kicking the a$$ of jerks like him is frowned upon in some circles. He could use a good educational beatdown.
Great Success!!!……NAWT
This unfunny clown is a real dick with ears. The beat-down he has coming will be epic, and I hope his crew films every second of it.
He is so typical of the Euro-pussies who pass for males in the UK. I am convinced the males of the UK would be unable to defeat the enemy if they ever again faced an existential threat comparable to the one they faced in WWII. (Notice that I didn’t refer to them as men)
Well, if you qualify that by leaving out the Royal Marines and the rest of the military, I’d agree with you.
Prince Andrew, the “actor” of the royal family, couldn’t manage three weeks with the Royal Marines because it was too hard, so he was let out of it. He’s a giant wussy. His nephew (Harry) is not. His other nephew (William) was flying S&R choppers for a while after he left the military.
Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex is the guy you mean.
Prince Andrew had a career in the RN.
That was Prince Edward (Prince Andrew was a distinguished naval officer & veteran of the Falklands war).
Sorry, I did get them mixed up. My bad.
I was also intending to exclude most of the British military, especially the SAS, but I doubt they comprise even one tenth of a percent of the males in the U.K
His show tanked, too.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’ on Showtime pulls in just 327,000 viewers
Fox News Link
Six more parts to this series- if the opener is any benchmark, CBS will lose a lot of money. I’m good with that.
It will be no loss to society if the ratings drop even lower.
They say more people “streamed it” than watched on tv. Sure…..
That claim is unprovable, of course. I’m sure CBS and Showtime execs are shitting peach pits over this, and for good reason.
If you own a Gun Shop, and in comes someone suspicious THAT HAS HIS OWN CAMERA CREW – you know some shit is going down.
The whole scene was so bizarre I would have been stunned if Cohen had actually pulled it off…
I’m wondering how it would have played out if the owner had gone ahead with explaining to the “Hungarian” that, before he could purchase a gun, he’d have to become a citizen, fill out a boatload of paperwork, and wait 10 days to come in and pick up the weapon. I’m guessing that that version wouldn’t have aired, either.
I’d add “if the shop owner spoke any East European language and used it on him” to that.
Should have let him fill out the paperwork, then turned him over to the local constabulary for trying to purchase a firearm under false pretenses/false identifty.
Wish we could deport his sorry ass back to the UK. Isn’t attempting to buy a weapon, when not legally allowed to a crime?
Isn’t concealing your identity and then trying to purchase a firearm illegal in the first place. Like if he were to purchase a firearm he’d have to put down a bunch of information that counters his disguise. Liberals are fucking idioits.
“Liberals are fucking idioits“, not according to them! If they break the law to protest against something, it’s fair game. You see, they’re enlightened. Guns are bad, therefor the following acts are expected:
-Lying on a 4473
-SBRing a rifle on YouTube
-Pouring rounds all over a corporate headquarter’s lobby (implicitly threatening)
-spouting anti-gun propagandized ‘information and stats’ while under protection from armed security
IMHO saying “liberals are fucking idiots” is akin to saying “Fire is hot”, Water is wet” and “Shit stinks”.
You must not have heard of the gun show loophole. I keep hearing how it’s easier to buy a gun than to buy a book…………..
Displaying a standard capacity (30 round) AR magazine on live television- located in Washington DC. Anyone but a liberal TV talking head would be in jail most ricky-tick.
Pity they didn’t let him fill out a false 4473…written proof of a felony would have been so nice.
Maybe next time he tries a chickenshit stunt like that…
I heard the owner of the store being interviewed on the radio this morning. What a great American he is; as he is a legal immigrant. He loves our Constitution and takes gun ownership and responsibility seriously.
That beard looks highly flammable.
“Here, let me light that smoke for ya”
This guy just tripled down on full retard, didn’t he?
The most significant thing Sacha Baron Cohen ever did was when he dropped from the ceiling during an award show, and rubbed his anus across M&M’s face.