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Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
AP ^ | 02/11/06 | NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 02/12/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by bayourant

Edited on 02/12/2006 2:10:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.

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Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.


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To: freedumb2003
"I can only imagine the DU buzz on this...." Here is one of the funniest:

Well, since the case seems to be over, we can assume it wasn't a hit by Cheney. DU might not.

341 posted on 02/12/2006 1:49:27 PM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: Republican Red

"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."

That's good for about ten Leno jokes right there. They write themselves.


342 posted on 02/12/2006 1:49:38 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: GAgal

LOL.


343 posted on 02/12/2006 1:49:40 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Roseu)
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To: ShandaLear

LOL!

I just threw that piece of red meat in front of some Libs. Can't wait to see the result.


344 posted on 02/12/2006 1:49:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: girlangler

DU: What is the impeachment procedure when the VP goes on a shooting spree?
Discussion started Sun Feb-12-06 04:16 PM by LoZoccolo


345 posted on 02/12/2006 1:50:32 PM PST by debg
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To: bayourant

Did he get the quail ?


346 posted on 02/12/2006 1:51:20 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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Don't they immediately delete any post that they don't like at DU?


347 posted on 02/12/2006 1:51:32 PM PST by peggybac
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To: bayourant

Oh, man, THAT'S embarrassing! We had a guy do that two years ago on a pheasant/quail hunt. Nailed the guy right in the keester from 35 yards, so the guy was OK but pissed that his new overalls were torn up.


348 posted on 02/12/2006 1:52:04 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: popdonnelly
That's good for about ten Leno jokes right there.

Leno better watch it, or we'll send him hunting with the veep!
349 posted on 02/12/2006 1:53:25 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Howlin

Thanks!

:-D


350 posted on 02/12/2006 1:53:39 PM PST by fanfan (I'd still rather hunt with Cheney, than drive with Kennedy.)
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To: Don Joe
* Seems pretty obvious that Cheney took a "sound shot" at the bushes, where his "friend" was scrounging around for his bird. Classic "slob hunter" behavior. Sad, and stupid.

Seems pretty obvious you haven't read or heard the news reports.

351 posted on 02/12/2006 1:54:05 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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To: fanfan

EXCELLENT tagline!


352 posted on 02/12/2006 1:54:08 PM PST by Fudd Fan (Sorry Mr. Franklin, but apparently we couldn't keep it.)
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To: girlangler
From his press spokesman in post 321.

The vice president didn't see him. 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.

Someone explain to the reporter that you CAPITALIZE THE V, P, and G, as in Vice President and God. That aside, I'm not sure The Vice President didn't see him...Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good makes sense, better to just say the Veep made a mistake.

353 posted on 02/12/2006 1:54:33 PM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: iPod Shuffle

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh that hit my funny bone!!!


354 posted on 02/12/2006 1:54:58 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: bayourant
Not many people can say they were shot by the Vice President of the United States!

Somebody better save those shotgun pellets.

355 posted on 02/12/2006 1:55:09 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: CodeToad

Yeah I thinks it more common than people think but thankfully rarely fatal. Wow over 10,0000 views I never had that on one of my threads


356 posted on 02/12/2006 1:55:11 PM PST by bayourant
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To: Thanatos

good, I hope the gun grabers do come out of the woodwork since trying to take peoples guns away is one of the things that has helped the dems lose recent elections.


357 posted on 02/12/2006 1:55:25 PM PST by conservative physics
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To: fanfan

LOL. You win the tag race.


358 posted on 02/12/2006 1:55:47 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Usually it's a guy's poor field dog that gets hit. I got my last labrador from a field trial kennel at about 3 years old... years later an xray showed several birdshot pellets in him...

If he'd been hunting with the VP, the pellets would be out.

359 posted on 02/12/2006 1:56:27 PM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: SJackson
I hope that at the inevitable press conference, Cheney says: "We invited Howard Dean, but he said he would be busy at an ACLU rally against the Boy Scouts".
360 posted on 02/12/2006 1:56:33 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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