Brandon Flowers recalls nearly losing an eye to air pellet gun

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has told NME how he nearly lost an eye one Christmas after playing with an air pellet gun. He said: "I got a BB gun once, it's a gun that shoots little pellets. It was during the first Gulf War, and my dad brought back pictures of Saddam Hussein for me to shoot at. So I was shooting at one of them one time and I ran forward to it immediately after I'd fired to see how good a shot I was, but it ricocheted off the shed and came back at me square in the head. I learnt my lesson. I almost lost my eye that Christmas."