SORRY, WRONG NUMBER! TELEPHONE CALL KILLS SLEEPY GUY (Hickory Daily Record, 12,21,92) Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidently shot himself to death in December in Newton, N.C., when awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.