On the other hand, getting yourself shot in the gut 152 years before the invention of the Bogotá bag might be a textbook example of the english chengyu "book smart life stupid"?

(see https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18204/1/PETSINIS_1995compressed.pdf but note that as well as being a fictional account, Petsinis has made some factual errors in details taken from the coroner's report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650555 )