Pick the odd man out ...
Associated Press, 15 November 2005
Teen charged with shooting neighbor
UNION, S.C. - A Jonesville teenager has been charged with shooting and killing his neighbor with a hunting rifle. Brandon Boyea, 17, of Jonesville was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter. According to the arrest warrant, Boyea pointed a 30-30 Winchester rifle at Christopher Todd Austin, 27. The gun fired and the bullet hit Austin near his mouth and came out the back of his head.
Boyea told deputies that he, Austin and another teenager, who was not identified by police, were out on a logging road, talking when he picked up the gun and it went off. "He handled the firearm in a criminally negligent manner, in such a reckless manner that it caused death," Union County Sheriff Howard Wells said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13167237.htm
Washington Post, 13 February 2006
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Texas Accident
Vice President Cheney accidentally sprayed a companion with birdshot while hunting quail on a private Texas ranch, injuring the man in the face, neck and chest, the vice president's office confirmed yesterday after a Texas newspaper reported the incident.
The shooting occurred late Saturday afternoon while Cheney was hunting with Harry Whittington, 78, a prominent Austin lawyer, on the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas. Hearing a covey of birds, Cheney shot at one, not realizing that Whittington had startled the quail and that he was in the line of fire.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021200524.html
). When I lived in Houston, I kept a gun in my purse when I had to go out at night, because I worked the midnight shift, when car-jacking was the craze.
) (Nice picture, too!)
