So… Gave my Dad my GoPro while he was in Las Vegas, I did not, however, instruct him on how to use it, so my dad being my dad, and a culchie, didn’t know which way to point the fucking thing… Posted by Evan Griffin on Déardaoin, 12 Samhain 2015 
 
 IT WAS to be the holiday of a lifetime for Joseph Griffin – he was visiting the bright lights of Las Vegas. 
 
 The Irishman arrived with a GoPro camera in tow to capture the entire trip and be able to show his children and family back home what he had seen and done. 
 
 But Mr Griffin somehow managed to get the GoPro stuck on selfie mode and instead of filming the wonderful sights in Nevada, captured more than four minutes of footage of his face. 
 
 Add in his narration and you’ve got a hilarious home video. 
 
 He more than likely never expected his faux pas to leave the confines of his home – but unlucky for Mr Griffin, his son Evan decided to upload the entire thing to Facebook. 
 
 Watch the video here and see for yourself! 

 An Irishman enjoying a dream trip to Las Vegas has become a viral star after unwittingly recording his whole trip in selfie mode. 
 
 Joseph Griffin borrowed his son’s GoPro camera to capture the exciting trip on camera but clearly should have asked him how to use or at least brought the instructions along. 
 
 More than 1.4 million people have watched the ‘ Irishman in Las Vegas ’ clip after his son Evan uploaded the highlights of the trip to YouTube. 
 
 "Gave my dad my GoPro while he was in Las Vegas, I did not, however, instruct him on how to use it, so my dad being my dad … didn't know which way to point the f------g thing," he wrote. 
 
 Instead of capturing the famous Las Vegas strip, he mostly managed to capture close-ups of his own face while pointing the camera the wrong way. 
 
 "There's the Trump Tower, same colour as his hair," he jokes in the clip. 
 
 The video has attracted hundreds of comments, with one saying: "This is gold, such a dad thing to do." 
 
 Another added: "This is way more golden than having videos of Vegas. Wish you got his reaction to seeing all the footage he took." 
 
 One viewer joked: "See, he knew the whole time which way the camera was pointed. He knew we couldn't see it and that he had to describe it in the best way possible for us to get it." 
 
 Perhaps a future in vlogging could await Mr Griffin. 
 
 Earlier this year, a GoPro camera was recovered to show skydivers falling nearly 10,000 feet when the camera broke away.
– Joseph Griffin screwed up big time when it came to recording his dream vacation to Las Vegas, but hey, at least he got a viral video out of his mistake. The Irishman brought his son's GoPro camera stateside so he could film the sights to show his friends and family back home—only Griffin managed to record his confused-looking face instead of the sights, per the Telegraph and Irish Post. In a four-minute video, a shirtless Griffin can be seen staring in the direction of the camera while exclaiming about the view from his hotel room. "Look at that … It's stunning," he says, believing the camera is showcasing the view out the window. "There's the Trump Tower, same color as his hair," he adds. The footage later captures Griffin walking backward into a glass door, impersonating Forrest Gump, calling himself "the tourist everybody hates," and even getting a brief glimpse of the sights when he apparently thinks he's taking a selfie. "Gave my dad my GoPro while he was in Las Vegas," Griffin's son, Evan, writes on YouTube. "I did not, however, instruct him on how to use it, so my dad being my dad … didn't know which way to point the [expletive] thing." The video has now been viewed more than 4 million times, including by someone at GoPro. "Classic dad move! What happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas," the company says in a comment. (This burglar made a similar mistake.)