Only the left? If he'd hit both he could have been one of the few living Darwin Award recipients, since the criterion is not death, but selflessly removing oneself from the gene pool.
And it was truly a selfless act on his part, like in "I would give a left (or right) testicle, if I could straighten out this misunderstanding."
Cost of bullet, $0.75
Hospital expenses, $8,473
Lesson learned, priceless.