When I worked part time in a gun shop while going to school we kept a started pistol by the phone. When a call game in asking a really stupid gun question the person taking the call then pickup the starter pistol and fire it into the phone. The shot would be a cue for another employee to grab the phone....Asking "What did you ask him"...he shot himself. As always they believed the employee did shoot himself and hung up.
The most common question was " Where do you put the gas in a Rem model 1100 since they read the gun was gas operated!
