I did that once.
I put the binoculars up to my eyes, realized that the lens caps were on and took them down to take the caps off.
Fortunately for me, no one had a long distance video of me doing it. I was lucky, because someone can take a still from the video and put it out over the internet and make it look like I was, stupidly, looking out of a pair of binoculars with the lens cap on.
Not a Bush fan, but I am not a fan of stupid digs either.