With all respect, I think that if you had bothered to read the BS-reduced accounts I just posted, you might have aimed more carefully before you fired.

I would only tell you that this "idiot" has been in few jams where (as the old saw goes) I did not rise to the occasion but sunk to my level of training. Still kicking myself -- can't believe I didn't see the obvious. So (in full agreement with EMP_ above) I cut people a fair bit of slack when they are faced with unfamiliar, high stress situations.