Sometimes you teach beheading class to a bunch of bloodthirsty scoundrels in the middle of the arid Levant desert and it goes as planned. Your scoundrels listen, they get the curriculum, grasp the material, and their knives are sharp and ready to slit the throats of imaginary infidels.

Sometimes, though, you teach beheading class to a bunch of bloodthirsty scoundrels in the middle of the arid Levant desert and … out of nowhere a British Special Air Service (SAS) sniper hits you squarely in the mug with a bullet and your head blows up, quite suddenly making you the butt of a joke you had no intention of telling. You’re also dead and your students are no longer paying attention.

The latter, believe it or not (believe it), happened recently — to a now headless ISIS (the Islamic State, IS, ISIL, Daesh, etc.) fighter.

This from The Daily Caller:

The terrorist was probably not expecting to become his students’ example, but the sniper armed with a large-caliber rifle made him one after landing a head shot from over 3,000 feet away. The man was reportedly teaching 20 recruits when he quite literally lost his head.

“One minute he was standing there and the next his head had exploded. The commander remained standing upright for a couple of seconds before collapsing and that’s when panic set in. We later heard most of the recruits deserted. We got rid of 21 terrorists with one bullet,” said a military official who witnessed the event.

The sniper supposedly used an Israeli-made Dan .338 bolt-action rifle equipped with a noise suppressor during the operation. The Dan .338 bolt-action rifle features a .338 LAPUA Magnum bullet which tumbles end-over-end once it hits flesh, displacing the liquid within a body in a process called “hydrostatic shock.” Once the bullet hits a body it creates a large cavity within the target, leaving a massive wound as it exits.

Remember the old saying “practice what you preach”? The story kind of takes it to a whole new level, doesn’t it?