If it can happen to this guy it can happen to anyone.
He took it in the foot.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/46491/...n_a_classroom/
The owner of a shooting range in the UK once pointed a loaded shotgun at me. He was excited at the clay torsos he had just shoot and forgot that he had loaded two rounds, he spun around to us in surprise because the French police shotgun round (like six ball bearings) splattered clay all over the place.
Apart from the presence of a film crew both experts were not under the kind of duress a pilot would be under facing a real threat.
Mickjoebill