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 3)

latour999

on Feb 14, 2006

At least Dick has the balls to shoot people inperson rather than by proxy now.

ParaTed2k

on Feb 14, 2006

With the absolutely STUPID questions coming from the White House Press Corps, I'd say that while VP Cheney caused a stupid accident, the "press corps" is showing their stupidity on purpose.

bakerstreet

on Feb 14, 2006

CNN: "Authorities have cleared Cheney of wrongdoing in the accidental shooting of Whittington, but questions about Saturday's incident remain."

Pretty much says it all, doesn't it...

Lee1776

on Feb 14, 2006

Have you guy seen how the White House press corp spent 45 minute crying to the Press Secratary that a local Texas news reporter broke the story.

What a bunch of cry babies. Now they are wanting an investigation into why they didn't get the story first.

trueandfree

on Feb 14, 2006

Chaney did not have a license. I wonder if he will be cited for the violation under state law. Meanwhile that poor lawyer is having heart trouble. Hey, wait a minute, those guys don’t have hearts. Maybe Chaney hit his wallet.

stevendedalus

on Feb 15, 2006

Is there any wonder that one so incompetent with a weapon was granted five draft exemptions?

drmiler

on Feb 15, 2006

Is there any wonder that one so incompetent with a weapon was granted five draft exemptions?

Tell you the same thing I told col. Get a clue.

Accidents like this happen all the time. I have personally seen it happen with a 16 year ex-marine behind the trigger. When you're hunting birds and they flush you need to swing quickly to get on target. Which is why you're supposed to keep in line.

The guy wandered into tall grass, then circled back around behind them without announcing his presence. While bird hunting, needless to say with people swinging guns in the direction they think people *aren't*...

When you do something this stupid, you get what you deserve!

The incompetent one here is the lawyer, "not" the VP. The lawyer was somewhere he was NOT supposed to be in the first place and then to add stupidity to ignorance, "never" even bothered to tell anyone he was there? He deserves to be shot.

bakerstreet

on Feb 15, 2006

" Chaney did not have a license. I wonder if he will be cited for the violation under state law. Meanwhile that poor lawyer is having heart trouble. Hey, wait a minute, those guys don’t have hearts. Maybe Chaney hit his wallet."

No, he didn't have a $7 permit stamp ON his license. An easy thing to forget.

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