A Truly Terrible Mistake
When Walters took out his pellet gun and started shooting at his balloons, he was extremely careful to shoot them in a careful and methodical manner, doing one on each side so that he would not throw off the balance of the load that he was carrying in the chair.
We can’t help but wonder if, in his haste to fire the gun with such precision, he was holding onto it with such a death grip that the unthinkable was suddenly and unexpectedly brought about. He lost his grip on the pellet gun, and it started to fall at an alarmingly rapid rate towards the ground.