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* [[William S. Burroughs]] accidentally killed his wife while [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|trying to shoot a drinking glass off her head with a gun]]. This incident is revisited in the [[Film of the Book]] of his work ''[[Naked Lunch]]''.
* This kind of trope was also done with guns, by Annie Oakley. There was a bit in her act where she would shoot the ash off her husband's cigar.
** At one point, Kaiser Wilhelm was in the audience. Annie's husband asked for volunteers, as he always did, and to his surprise the Kaiser stood up. Annie pulled off the trick, and after [[World War
* Obviously appeared among [[Darwin Award]] stories
* Straddling the line between [[Real Life]] and folklore are the tales of American [[Mountain Man]] Mike Fink. Several stories tell of him and his friends shooting cups of whisky off each other's heads. One account of his death says that in 1829 in a drunken stupor, when aiming at a mug of beer from the head of his longtime friend, John Carpenter, he shot low; shortly thereafter, his other longtime friend, Talbot, retaliated by killing Fink, using Carpenter's pistol.
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