Run for your lives, everyone! Vice-President Cheney is ARMED AND DANGEROUS:
Via the Guardian:
Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, accidentally shot a man in the face with a shotgun while hunting for quail on a Texas ranch.
Mr Cheney, 65, sprayed birdshot into Harry Whittington, a fellow hunter, while trying to hit a flock of quail on Saturday afternoon. Mr Whittington, 78, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital where he was treated for pellet wounds to the right side of his face, neck and chest.
A spokesman for the hospital said he was not seriously injured and described his condition as "stable".
A witness, Katharine Armstrong, said Mr Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Mr Cheney and a third hunter walked to another spot and discovered a second flock. She said: "Whittington came up from behind the Vice-President and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself.
"The Vice-President didn't see him ... the covey [flock] 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." Mr Cheney was said to have visited his friend in hospital.
Politically, does this mean anything? I doubt it. Still, considering all the scandals floating around, it would've been too perfect an image if Cheney had actually shot himself in the foot.
1 comment:
I can't think of anyone who trys harder to exude a persona of supreme confidence yet who is more completely inept.Actually ,one other guy comes to mind.Remember how the gun-humans ragged on Kerry for not looking authentic enough when he went hunting?
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