Probably Deliberately, Hunter Steps In Front Of Cheney's Gun

My first reaction was whaaaa...? then looked and found the actual news item... there is one!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident

Wonders never cease.

Damnit BVT!!

You beat me to this!! I was going to give it a thread topic name of

"In His Desire to Kill Something, Cheney Shoots Millionaire Buddy"!!

Anon

you gotta get up early......

Don't worry buddy. You can have the next one. These guys f**k up every other hour on the dot.

They ARE entertaining, even if they are fubaring the country!!

Anon

Buddy, we lost the country in 2002. Lets just grab a cold one and watch the show.

Perhaps one of the two has cataracts attacking...

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until nearly 24 hours after it happened.

Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shoot at a covey of quail.

Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and discovered a second covey.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong said.

"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

Whittington has been a private practice attorney in Austin since 1950 and has long been active in Texas Republican politics. He's been appointed to several state boards, including when then-Gov. George W. Bush named him to the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

Whittington owns property in Travis County worth at least $11 million, the Austin American-Statesman reported last year, not counting a downtown block at the center of a long-running dispute with the city over a condemnation issue.

Armstrong, owner of the Armstrong Ranch where the accident occurred, said Whittington was bleeding and Cheney was very apologetic.

"It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."

"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."

Cheney is an avid hunter who makes annual hunting trips to South Dakota to hunt pheasants. He also travels frequently to Arkansas to hunt ducks.

Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.

"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.

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I await the first conspiracy thread, site or post that links the shooting to the cover up of something in the administration.

Were working on one as you speak. (It's gonna be a good one)

Anybody who shoots anybody in a hunting accident is someone I would no longer hunt with. It wasnt Whittingtons fault for "not announcing himself" , Cheney should be aware of everything around him especially where hes shooting. To make it sound like "this happens all the time i" is total bullshit.
When I was a kid, I only know of one hunting accident in our large extended family and hunting circle, and that was some yahoo who leaned his shotgun against a fence and then proceeded to climb over it. The shotgun fell, went off , and shot some other guy in the ass. The fence climber had to take a hunting course and he lost his hunting privileges for 3 years. I wonder is Cheney wil be asked to attend a safe hunting course.?

Compare the number of hunters too the number of hunters who have shot their hunting partners. The leader of the most powerful force in the history of man should not be among them. yet again he's shooting the wrong people only this time the wrong f**king species.

Why can't go hunting with Bush.

Doesn't Cheney go hunting with Scalia and other Supreme Court justices?

It makes me wonder about a recent claim that Bush will probably be able to appoint a couple of more justices before the end of his term. Maybe they have a plan in place.

There, that'll work for the start of the conspiracy.

"I like Roe vs. Wade."
Blam!
"Oops, sorry, I thought you were a duck."

Boy we sure are lucky you have a sense of humour jespah.

Cheney et al shot the country in the ass a number of years ago. This is not a unique event, its a habit.

I try to only use m'powers for good.

"Probably Deliberately"?

Is that Accidentally On Purpose's slightly more responsible cousin?