Lol no, That's just one example.
Most of the brightest minds on earth would probably fail that one ^_^
You would be amazed what you can do when you have to.
I walked ~10-15km into town basically blind when it was -30*C to get to the hospital after I got welding blindness (the visor was meant for a different type of welding and I was too young to know better).
I was all right once I got the freezing but walking in a blizzard like that blind was a little unnerving ^_^
The true sadness is that his plan had little chance of success, since a .22 hole is too small to fit a coax cable through. I guess his wife is lucky that he did not realize that and took a .357 instead