I don’t know if it was that long ago and I wasn’t a big Judas Priest guy. But sorta figured if you were going to use a long barreled shotgun and you couldn’t reach the trigger, how about a stick?
I recall they were doing the deed serially. The first guy succeded. The second picked up the shotgun, blood was all over it, “very slippery” and missed, just blowing off his jaw. I think this was part of a legal case against the band or label.