Mobile phone blasted to bits on pheasant shoot

A NOVEL way of dealing with the nuisance of mobile phones ringing at inappropriate times has reached the ears of the INQ: Blow them out of the skies.

Reputedly a City-type had joined a fashionable pheasant shoot recently when, to the horror of the rest of the party, his mobile phone suddenly started to jangle.

A horrified game keeper sternly reprimanded the man in question and instructed him to hand over the offending device.

"I'm sorry, sir. Mobile phones, aren't allowed on a shoot," he informed the embarrassed newcomer.

Then, giving a signal to the rest of the party the keeper promptly threw the handset up into the air whereby it was duly blown to pieces.

This story did seem a bit far-fetched. But luckily the INQ just so happens to know a sharp shooter. She told the INQ, "Yes, it would be perfectly possible to hit something as small as a mobile phone, although replacing clay pigeons with mobile phones isn't exactly ecologically sound, is it?"

It might upset environmentalists but it does sound rather like jolly good fun. µ