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Media Credit: YouTube.com "I SAID I would leeeeaaaaaavvveee!!" - - Mostafa Tabatabainejad

It's the end of the year and YouTube.Com has provided millions of entertaining video clips for us. The UCLA taser incident involving Mostafa Tabatabainejad, by far gets the vote for best homemade video of the year. Bob Saget's "America's Funniest Home Videos" has got nothing on this guy.

The cinematography of the video was excellent. The viewer cannot see anything but the backs of people's heads for basically the entire duration. So when the zapping begins the screams of A "I said would leave!" and "f*ck off!" certainly captured the viewer's attention.

The anticipation builds faster and stronger than most scary movies with better pitch than current Hollywood directors seem to have. Finally at the end there is a glimpse of the officers trying to drag Tabatabainejdad out of the lab only to see him get tasered in the butt. Certainly the acting deserves honorary mention. Rarely has a college student been able to portray a five-year-old with such excellence as Tabatabainejad.

Especially with no known theater experience. His apparent lack of common sense as the officers attempted to reason with him was particularly convincingly played. Not even Mel Gibson and Michael Richards (Kramer) would have been able to convince someone to taser them that many times. Although it's arguable if perhaps the racism card pushes the video onto the cheesy side.

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