Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter

[gldstwmn]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/....ap/index.html

was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good'

Sunday, February 12, 2006; Posted: 4:40 p.m. EST (21:40 GMT)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Whittington was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.

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

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 found 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 told the Associated Press in an interview.

"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."

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.

"It broke the skin," she said. "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."

She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.

"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."

Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. 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.

[irishgrl]

I wuz gonna post this and I decided against it, thot it was too Barnum/Bailey

Im glad someone else did the dirty deed so we can all enjoy it in spite of my attack of decency

[DavidMn]

Ok is this a joke?

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Ok is this a joke?

no...........I wouldnt recommend anyone going hunting with this guy, he's clearly dangerous........on second thought, maybe Monkey Boy could go with him.....they could roast weiners and marshmallows and sing 'round the campfire and trade bigfoot stories....and play a rousing game of Russian Roulette

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

no...........I wouldnt recommend anyone going hunting with this guy, he's clearly dangerous........on second thought, maybe Monkey Boy could go with him.....they could roast weiners and marshmallows and sing 'round the campfire and trade bigfoot stories....and play a rousing game of Russian Roulette

Well, it was Texas right? I guess that doesnt surprise me

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

yep! one of the few states that still believes in vigilante justice (along with Alaska and Nebraska) anyone surprised?

Wait'll the Onion gets ahold of this story!! I cant wait!!!

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Wait'll the Onion gets ahold of this story!! I cant wait!!!

David: are you trying to duplicate your earlier record at postage my dear?
because if you are, Ryan will be soooooooooooo disappointed...

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

David: are you trying to duplicate your earlier record at postage my dear?
because if you are, Ryan will be soooooooooooo disappointed...

Hey, we're secret allies, he's on my side.

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

Hey, we're secret allies, he's on my side.

ya coulda fooled me!

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

ya coulda fooled me!

We are! I'm tellin ya. David is my little bitch. I say jump, he says how high. It's just that way.

I love you David.

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

We are! I'm tellin ya. David is my little bitch. I say jump, he says how high. It's just that way.

I love you David.

unless he gives you grief, in which case you whine like a puppy!

What a fakir! (look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnalls.....)

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

unless he gives you grief, in which case you whine like a puppy!

What a fakir! (look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnalls.....)

My English teacher used to say that to us. We always thought he was cursing because of how he said it.

Yes, we are an un-cultured bunch in Milford CT.

[JazmenFlowers]

why couldn't Bush have been his hunting "buddy" on this outing? damn.

[golddustdragon]

What the hell did Cheney have, a machine gun?

[estranged4life]

So Elmer "Cheney" Fudd shot someone....

"Be vewwy, vewwy quiet....I hunting tewwowists....Uhuhuhuhuhuhuuh"

Actually, when I think of DICK Cheney, I think the following image is more appropriate:

Brian "Cant wait til I can lampoon the Democrats equally when they screw up in office" j.