Help Cheney Shoot Quail!

That's good.

You just know someone's going to make a flash game with quail popping up, and occassionally Whittington, for you to shoot,

This Cheney fellow is one mean shooter. Three years ago he killed 70 birds on one trip. A guy like that doesn't need a license.

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Hunting Lessons with Dick Cheney

Filling your 78-year-old friend with shot is one thing. Doing it without a license, though? Come on Dick! But then, after past Cheney hunting trips, what should one expect?

We have come to expect bungles and mishaps from the Bush Administration. And not just political ones. President Bush has made a habit out of brushes with death from choking on pretzels to crashing on his bike to running into a policeman at Gleneagles last year. Not to be outdone, Vice President Dick Cheney seems to have decided to get into the act.
Shooting your 78-year-old hunting buddy while quail hunting can, of course, happen to anyone. As it turns out, though, Cheney didn't have a license -- neither for quail nor for 78-year-olds. But this should come as no surprise to anyone. Cheney's hunting trips have long been cause for finger-wagging among some in the chattering classes.
His 2004 duck hunting trip with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia raised questions about the separation between the executive branch and the judiciary. And a pheasant shooting trip in Dec. 2003 raised animal rights hackles after it was revealed that Cheney and his party annihilated 417 newly-released, cage-raised pheasants -- in one day.
Cheney himself was credited with filling 70 of the birds full of lead himself. But it is unlikely Cheney will stop hunting anytime soon. One hopes though that before he heads off on his next trip, he'll take a look at this handy prey identifier for vice-presidential hunting trips.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,400865,00.html

He had a license.

Though he had a valid hunting license, neither Cheney nor Whittington had the required game bird stamp needed for hunting quail.

Yep ... slap on the wrist warning. Next issue.

That trigger-happy bird killer was too arrogant to bother. He finally sent $7 because of the uprooar.

His buck shot buddy just had a heart attack. He will survive with all the shot in him for good.

IF he survives!

Hundreds of pellets lodged in his body. That sounds serious enough.

I have always wondered what makes grown men go and shoot at defensless animals? If they are hungry it would be normal.

If a hunter shoots 70 birds, he must be mentally unbalanced. Killing for pleasure is an abnormal and sick pastime.
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Emergency room chief Dr. David Blanchard estimated that Whittington had more than five but "probably less than 150 to 200" pellets lodged in his body. The hospital's cardiologists didn't expect the pellet to travel any further into Whittington's heart, and they had no plans to remove it.

Local officials said at first they did not intend to bring any charges in the shooting, which was considered an accident, but according to The New York Times, the district attorney in Kleberg County, Carlos Valdez, said a fatality would invite a new report from the local sheriff and, most likely, a grand jury investigation. Under the law, even an accidental hunting death can result in criminal charges, and Cheney could be charged with negligence should Whittington die as a result of his injuries.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1524349/20060215/index.jhtml?headlines=true

Yes, the game was fun. Also interesting was the text about shooting "canned" game. Now that sounds like real sport! Of course, shooting tame animals near where I live is considered a crime, but different strokes, I guess...

Even if he had shot a quail, what good would the thing be with 150 pieces of buckshot in it?