Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter

Published on February 13, 2006 By KarmaGirl In Politics

Apparently, VP Cheney was Quail hunting with a buddy (Harry Whittington, a 78 year old millionaire lawyer from Austin) and accidentally shot him by "peppering" him with shot from a 28 guage. Even though they were both wearing bright orange, the VP didn't "see" him. Luckily, there was an ambulance on hand (since the VP was around) and was able to take Whittington to the hospital where he is "fine and in good spirits".

Full story at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney.ap/index.html

Comments (Page 2)

BenUser

on Feb 13, 2006

I'll bet he would have been in better spirits if Cheney hadn't shot him!
New news has come out as to why Cheney shot him. Cheney thought he'd be greeted as a liberator!
One thing though, now we actually have someone in the Whitehouse with combat experience!

terpfan1980

on Feb 13, 2006

If Draft Dodger Dick had learned how to handle a weapon by serving in the military, this might not have happened. He should be sent to Iraq.

Why is that my old USAR unit was filled with Officers that didn't have a clue how to handle a friggin' weapon? Sidearm (standard issue for them) or rifle? Oh yeah, because most of them were as Cluelessly Abel like Gene.

Seriously, you disgraceful old coot, you and others like you were an embarassment to the uniform in my day. At least Cheney hit something. Most of the clueless old officers of my day couldn't tell which end of the weapons to point at the targets, much less hit a target -- unless they buddied up and scored each other's rounds so they could cheat and maintain qualifications enough to keep drawing undeserved checks from Uncle Sam.

Crawl back under your rock...

MarcieMoo

on Feb 13, 2006

lol...Mr. Cheney is a disaster waiting to happen. I'd make sure I took out a huge life insurance policy if I ever came within a mile of him.

davad70

on Feb 13, 2006

Most of the clueless old officers of my day couldn't tell which end of the weapons to point at the targets, much less hit a target -- unless they buddied up and scored each other's rounds so they could cheat and maintain qualifications enough to keep drawing undeserved checks from Uncle Sam.

Maybe it's a different attitude in certain MOS's, but the officers in all the units I was in took a lot of pride in sidearm qualification. I'm talking about MP units though, so that may explain the difference.

Moderateman

on Feb 13, 2006

Cheney knew enough to use bird shot Imagine if he was using double O.

stevendedalus

on Feb 14, 2006

Seriously, you disgraceful old coot, you and others like you were an embarassment to the uniform in my day. At least Cheney hit something. Most of the clueless old officers of my day couldn't tell which end of the weapons to point at the targets, much less hit a target -- unless they buddied up and scored each other's rounds so they could cheat and maintain qualifications enough to keep drawing undeserved checks from Uncle Sam.

What service were you in?--surely not American. And you once accused me of rhetoric!

stevendedalus

on Feb 14, 2006

Granted it was an unfortunate and embarrassing accident; nevertheless, there lurks pointed and relevant imagery.

kingbee

on Feb 14, 2006

disgraceful old coot

that's what cheney and scalia were tryin to hit in louisiana. good thing antonin didn't need further convincing (beyond the 'favor' i mean) bout which way to vote when cheney's case came before the supreme court. he might easily have been settin off metal detectors for the rest of his life.

Ionolast

on Feb 14, 2006

Too bad they weren't hunting Quayle.

Ionolast

on Feb 14, 2006

Too bad they weren't hunting Quayle.

Dr Guy

on Feb 14, 2006

there lurks pointed and relevant imagery.

I think it was Jay Leno who said that when the public learned he shot a lawyer, his poularity increased to 92%!

Gideon MacLeish

on Feb 14, 2006

Anyone want to help me market a line of "I went hunting and got shot by the Vice President, and all I got was this lousy TShirt" TShirts?

kingbee

on Feb 14, 2006

Anyone want to help me market a line of "I went hunting and got shot by the Vice President, and all I got was this lousy TShirt" TShirts?

Too bad they weren't hunting Quayle

what about the 70 peasants he downed in pa in 2003?

Leauki

on Feb 14, 2006

I think I must be very tired.

Due to the current forum replies line-up in the sidebar I just read this:

Cheney accidentally
shoots fellow hunter
Does God Exist?

And for a moment there, I thought I was ready.

Leauki

on Feb 14, 2006

New news has come out as to why Cheney shot him. Cheney thought he'd be greeted as a liberator!

Your belief that the US are murdering Iraqis comes from your inability to educate yourself, doesn't it?

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