promotion for the new Splinter Cell game in Auckland New Zealand ends with police nearly shooting a man.

Someone, somewhere is getting fired right now. In a promotion for the newly released game, Splinter Cell: Convictions, a marketing company in New Zealand thought that it might be fun to send an actor down to the busy Viaduct Basin section of Auckland and engage with shop goers and bar patrons. With an imitation gun. Police were not amused.The NZ Herald is reporting that a man with a bandaged hand and carrying a plastic gun (the gun and bandaged hand are visually distinctive marks of the game’s title character Sam Fisher) was seen wandering by a pub, when the actor pointed a gun at several people. Hilarity ensued.Terrified screams filled the street, as people began to scramble for cover, diving behind tables and running in every direction. Police quickly responded, fully prepared for a shootout. Luckily for the Sam Fisher wanna-be, the New Zealand police have never been to LA, so a brief conversation turned the possibly tragic shootout into an incredibly stupid incident.