diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 86840642bef..59ec45a9194 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ driver developers who would rather use Maven than Ant as their build tool.
     </build>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>com.google.gag</groupId>
+          <artifactId>gag</artifactId>
+          <version>1.0.1</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
             <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java b/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java
index ed80b4b425d..52c728dcc9b 100644
--- a/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java
+++ b/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
  */
 package com.mongodb;
 
+import com.google.gag.annotation.remark.WTF;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -210,7 +212,9 @@ public CommandResult update() {
                     _maxBsonObjectSize = Bytes.MAX_OBJECT_SIZE;
                 }
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                if (!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))) {
+                @WTF
+                boolean randomExceptionHandling = true;
+                if (!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() >  0.1))) {
                     return res;
                 }