Cheney shoots man on hunting trip in Texas

[TooStonedToType]

Don't know why I find this funny -  but I do.  I'm sure it was right out of an Abbott and Costello skit.  I wonder if Bush and Cheney ever go huntin together?  I wonder if the Division of Wildlife or the local Sheriff were called.  Does Cheney have a Hunter's Safety Card or a hunting license? Was Cheney drunk?  Inquiring minds want to know.

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Cheney shoots man on hunting trip in Texas
Man wounded in accidental shooting said to be ‘alert and doing fine’

Updated: 3:56 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2006 (AP Newsflash)
WASHINGTON - 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 Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance.

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.

[Hyakitaki]

He shot him in the face, seriously the face.

[senorsalvia]

Never cared for much of anything "Cheney related", but I gotta hand it to my vice man on this one....  After all, he did shoot a lawyer :wink: ....  sal

[Bushpig]

...and these dudes run America

Booosh

[dergheist]

Lets not forget that Cheney also broke the law and did not buy a hunting stamp as was required by Texas law!  Gee I wonder how often he has done that?  What an idiot and he should not be allowed a gun, as he has done stupid stuff before, just not as serious.

[Avery L. Breath]

Oh man, honestly I'm sick of even hearing about this.  It's a distracting non-issue IMO.  I mean, ultimately, who really cares.  It doesn't prove anything.  There are bigger fish to fry in the bush/cheney pond.  Seeing this debated with glee add nausium on the news outlets is just distracting and bizarre.  Who really cares.  What does that say about his opposition to jump on this like a pack of wolves?  I mean, shouldn't everybody be talking about something actually relevant, like say, the recent news about how he allegidly authorized "Scooter" Libby to leak classified information in reguards to the outing of Valerie Plame a CIA agent......

[TooStonedToType]

I think it's important as the average hick doesn't understand WMD's, world politics, outing CIA agents, etc., but this makes it clear to every redneck in Texas, Cheney is an idiot and acts above the law. Anyone else wouldn't have been able to wait 12 hours before talking to the cops (time to sober up) after shooting someone.

[LizJah]

Me...Personally,

Think it's a damn shame that Dick has to try to cap dudes in a hunting "accidents."

Once the Act gets plugging away again...Prez powers allow shooting lawyers.

Lj

[Hyakitaki]

Hahahaha this is hillarious, the guy who cheney shot in the face you know?

Well he had a heart attack in the hospital.

I mean come on do heart attacks follow cheney....or maybe it's just the fact cheney shot HIM IN THE FACE!!!!


Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4714264.stm


P.S. CHENEY SHOT HIM IN THE FACE!!!

[senorsalvia]

I just got done spending 45 min dealing with some anal retentive cop, because I flipped a cig butt into the bushes beside my local library.... He never sought to ask if he could search me; but I was repeatedly asking him if he had better things to do than to stop, and approach someone who has done nothing wrong...   He told me he had had 45 min before he got off work, and I should be carefull throwing cigs away.....  I told him he needed to find a life / arrest me for pub littering / or leave me alone.....  He proceeded to stand there and harangue me for a bit, until I told him point blank that I was walking away from him if he was not arrresting me...He let me walk / but /   he called out {"I'll be around"}====  sal=================  PSSST :   can anybody spell encroaching facsism???========sal

[dergheist]

I am sorry about that d!ck you got to deal with Senor.  Down here in Southern Lousyana they have particulary nice cops that like to shoot you in the head before they question you.  I have had my fair share of dealings with these crooked @$$holes and have no respect for these southern cops at all.  Thank goodness I am out of here soon!!!  Speaking of Cheney, now they say he may face criminal charges for the shooting.  Yea right!  But if he did, why not just tack it on to all the other charges he should be facing, eh?

[cenacle]

this whole story is a smokescreen, don't be fooled...the press likes these fucked up minor stories because they are novel...cover the NSA spy scam, the New Orleans disaster, the Iraq disaster, the pending war with Iran...THESE ARE THE ISSUES...cheney will never ever EVER see any trouble for this...but they push through the Patriot Act...they are trying to give Bush* warrantless surveillance power outside the NSA...

fuck em, and fuck those sorry ass Democrats in DC, the ones who care more for their cushy lives as tools of the Empire to doing right by the people of this country and the world...fuck em all, snapped broomstick, dry and hard...Abu Ghraib/Gitmo-style...

it pisses me off how a stupid unsolvable minor incident has swallowed the terrible things happening now, lots of them...

[dergheist]

Here Here!!! Very true Cen, but like TSTT mentioned that all the rednecks might realize what a dumbass they have for a vice president.  Not highly likely, but still a chance.  I agree though that there is more pressing issues that are being swept under the rug because of this distraction.

[JRL]

Someone has already recorded "Cheney's Got a Gun"

[cenacle]

the UN is calling Gitmo a torture center, the House of Reps is recommending the Iran nuke issue be sent on to the UN Security Council, the Iraq war continues unabated, genuine war hero and Democrat Paul Hackett is forced out of the US Senate race in Ohio, BY DEMOCRATS, it goes ON and ON...

a full third of the county would vote for Bush if he fucked endangered white albino gulls to death, set them on fire, danced naked around them, and waved his tiny little ding dong shouting I AM THE LIZARD KING I CAN DO ANYTHING...

another third of the country is willing to oppose the Empire, to march in the street, to get out the vote, to change the world a bit at a time...

the middle third is the issue...they are looking on, and waiting for the starter's gun from a genuine progressive movement with truth crying from its voice...

i dont give a great fuck that cheney shot his friend, it was an accident, it was revenge, it was over a six pack of beer, it was the result of a drunken fight over a woman...maybe his friend snatched the last hit of E, or hit up the dregs of the crack pipe...i dont care...

he is a war criminal...he has committed crimes against the world and American citizens...this is what matters. This is all that matters.