I was interested in a special weapon that was weird and practical (and practicable), so I went to Java and asked my Javan contact Emile Hirsch: "How does this one work?" Emile smiled: "It works with a spring-loaded mechanism that shoots the gerbil from the ****** with the force of a 12-gauge shot-gun to guarantee instant death to the gerbil and to the Richard Gere impersonator."