Patrick was brought up (and indeed, recites elsewhere in canon) with the excellent maxim
"Never ever let your gun Pointed be at anyone That unloaded it may be Matters not the least to me".
At least two actors I can name - Brandon Bruce Lee and Mr Campbell of the Queen's Theatre Manchester - have died because a prop gun which was supposed to be unloaded wasn't, and although Peter had no reason to suspect either that his initial check was flawed or that the gun had been reloaded since he made it basic good practice ought to have suggested discharging it into empty air a few times before using it on that occasion. The problem was, of course, that they didn't plan to use the gun at all, and Patrick was so "in character" that he practically willed the bullet into existence.
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Re: Patrick's corpse?
Date: 2006-01-28 09:00 am (UTC)"Never ever let your gun
Pointed be at anyone
That unloaded it may be
Matters not the least to me".
At least two actors I can name - Brandon Bruce Lee and Mr Campbell of the Queen's Theatre Manchester - have died because a prop gun which was supposed to be unloaded wasn't, and although Peter had no reason to suspect either that his initial check was flawed or that the gun had been reloaded since he made it basic good practice ought to have suggested discharging it into empty air a few times before using it on that occasion. The problem was, of course, that they didn't plan to use the gun at all, and Patrick was so "in character" that he practically willed the bullet into existence.