Vice President shoots a lawyer !!

xtreme barton · #1 02-12-2006, 07:56 PM

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212...unting_accident

MagicRat · #2 02-12-2006, 08:29 PM

Classic!

That kind of hunting 'accident' is pretty common. At least they were not hunting deer with 00 buckshot. If that were the case, the lawyer would be in pieces.

FlippiN.af · #3 02-12-2006, 08:43 PM

I saw that story on Yahoo!
Pretty funny to me.

xtreme barton · #4 02-12-2006, 09:18 PM

wow all them people around and it still happened.. i guess vice pres cant see orange ... lol

jay leno will be hilarious !!

Rally Sport · #5 02-13-2006, 01:22 AM

Is it me or is he snarling in this pic?

"I should've shot again.."

KustmAce · #6 02-13-2006, 12:34 PM

this administration is priceless!

xtreme barton · #7 02-13-2006, 12:52 PM

^^

yup .. i cant wait to see what dumb ass america wants next ...

why do we choose such idiots ?

GTP Dad · #8 02-13-2006, 03:05 PM

Well at least he shot a lawyer! I wonder if he was a democrat?

Oz · #9 02-13-2006, 05:38 PM

Cheney declares Open Season on Lawyers?

G-man422 · #10 02-13-2006, 05:49 PM

^ Nice! Im just glad it wasnt a bigger gun.

xtreme barton · #11 02-13-2006, 06:02 PM

what kind of dumb fuck shoots someone on a hunting trip..

you can say it wasnt his fualt but he should have been more cautious when hunting ...

i guess his ways are like bush's... shoot now worry later

G-man422 · #12 02-13-2006, 06:05 PM

@ Xtreem barton: what does your sig say?

TexasF355F1 · #13 02-13-2006, 06:54 PM

I can't believe all the hoopla the media is making about this. This type of thing happens during hunting season all the time. And the people I hear saying he shouldn't be hunting b/c he's vice president is absurd. The guy has a hobby, when he gets a chance he's gonna do what he loves.

Mustangman25 · #14 02-13-2006, 07:12 PM

This really is a classic story...Cheney claims in some sources that he heard a noise behind him, so he turned and shot; how paranoid do you have to be to shot whatever makes a noise? I'm no hunting expert, but a 78 year old lawyer isn't exactly the same size as a bird, is it? lol

xtreme barton · #15 02-13-2006, 07:49 PM

hobby ??

wtf fuck does that clown realy do anyways ??

im mean bush is fucking it all up already whats left for him but to shoot someone..

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