Cheney takes hunting lessons from Bob Knight

[rrfield]

Ow!

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property's owner.

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/2006/0212/2328636.html

 

[Dave]

accidently my ass.
the lawyer season is open in Texas! woo hoo!

 

[Winky]

He's danged lucky it was a 28 gauge

7 to #9 shot is mighty widdle stuff and at 90 feet?

yeah since it didn't get in his eyes he'll be fine

 

[Winky]

Shot sizes

 

[samcurry]

what a wus, apparently he has never went out on opening day in a public hunting area. you get peppered from all directions.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Be glad he didn't take his lessons from Ted Nugent.

 

[catocom]

Man, this country Must be in damn good shape, if this is all the news has
to report on, 16 collective hours a day.

 

[unclehobart]

I think its the first time since Aaron Burr that someone so high up the Executive branch food chain took a shot at someone. It is news... of a sort.

 

[chcr]

what a wus, apparently he has never went out on opening day in a public hunting area. you get peppered from all directions.

Story number one in the "Why I Quit Hunting" handbook. Used to have a "souvenir" duck decoy with it's head shot off.

the lawyer season is open in Texas! woo hoo!

For that I might start again.

 

[catocom]

I think its the first time since Aaron Burr that someone so high up the Executive branch food chain took a shot at someone. It is news... of a sort.

oh yeah, it's news.
They just spent too much time on it yesterday IMO.
They seem to be back to the More critical issues today though.

 

[chcr]

accidently my ass.
the lawyer season is open in Texas! woo hoo!

Quail season, lawyer season, QUAIL SEASON, LAWYER SEASON, QUAIL SEASON, LAWYER SEASON, FIRE!!!!!

Excuse me while I amuse myself over here.

 

[Professur]

Maybe he thought he was hunting with Dan Quail? (I can't believe noone went there yet)

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I can't believe you spelled Quayle wrong, potatoe head.

 

[Professur]

Consider yourself "given the bird"

 

[The Other One]

Be very afraid

 

[freako104]

accidently my ass.
the lawyer season is open in Texas! woo hoo!

 

[Gonz]

Be very afraid

 

[chcr]

Shamelessly ripped off from another forum:

When news reached France they immediately surrendered.

As a side note, it seems that this guy had been off looking for some previously shot birds and came back up behind the rest of the party without announcing he was there. There are common practices in quail hunting (perhaps not in Quayle hunting though) and Whittington clearly didn't know them. The jokes are already flying though...

 

[catocom]

LOL, I just heard one of the first good jokes....on tv guide channel....

"If you're gonna play with Dick in the bush, you're gonna get it in the face"

 

[flavio]

"not shooting Whittington in the face would have showed quails everywhere that America is weak" - Daily Show