There is a scene in the movie, “Pulp Fiction,” in which an assassin goes to someone’s house in order to murder them. When he gets to the target’s house, he finds that no one is home, and the place is in a mess. The target,who knows that a crime boss is angry at him, seems to have fled. So the assassin relaxes, and goes to use the toilet. He leaves his gun on a kitchen table as he uses the lavatory. Unfortunately for him, the target comes back to pick up an important watch. He finds the gun on the kitchen table. Then he finds the assassin in the toilet. And he shoots him.
Is that a realistic story? Could an assassin really be so stupid that he would leave his gun in the kitchen when he goes to use the toilet in his target’s house?
A recent story from real life suggests that this is not so unrealistic. A former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was taking a flight from New York to London. He was accompanied on the British Airways flight by a police bodyguard. At one point during the flight, another passenger went to use the toilet. He found the bodyguard’s passport, the former Prime Minister’s passport, and a gun. Apparently, the bodyguard had taken off his gun and put down the passports whilst he was using the toilet. And he forgot to pick them back up again. At least the passenger who found them wasn’t a terrorist!
There are a lot of forgetful people in the world. I was once on a train and missed my stop because the driver forgot to open the doors. But it’s a very bad idea to be a forgetful gunman. I hope the people in charge of the world’s nuclear weapons have good memories.
Vocabulary:
an assassin – a person who tries to murder someone for political or religious reasons
to be in a mess – to be messy or untidy; for things to be scattered about or not in their correct places
to flee (past tense, fled) – to run away or try to escape
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