Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter

[King Tech Quadafi]

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.

He was described as in stable condition by Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi.

Armstrong in an interview with The Associated Press said Whittington, 78, was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest during the incident which occurred late afternoon on Saturday

She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington until the ambulance arrived.

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington and his wife at the hospital on Sunday.

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until nearly 24 hours after it happened.

Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shoot at a covey of quail.

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 discovered 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 said.

"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."

Whittington has been a private practice attorney in Austin since 1950 and has long been active in Texas Republican politics. He's been appointed to several state boards, including when then-Gov. George W. Bush named him to the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

Whittington owns property in Travis County worth at least $11 million, the Austin American-Statesman reported last year, not counting a downtown block at the center of a long-running dispute with the city over a condemnation issue.

Armstrong, owner of the Armstrong Ranch where the accident occurred, said Whittington was bleeding and Cheney was very apologetic.

"It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "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."

"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."

Cheney is an avid hunter who makes annual hunting trips to South Dakota to hunt pheasants. He also travels frequently to Arkansas to hunt ducks.

Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." 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/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident

[herpes]

LMFAO

[big mat]

wood have been funier if he shooted bush in the ass

[Sikotic™]

God damn! Cheny got that THUG LIFE tatted on his chest man boobs.

[J Bananas]

cheney tryin a kill fools out in the woods then play it off like a accident when he cant seal the deal, what a bitch.

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

God damn! Cheny got that THUG LIFE tatted on his chest man boobs.

lol 

[Eihtball]

Actually, that wasn't Cheney, that was me hiding behind a tree with a FABARM combat shotgun.  I was trying to get his ass framed for murder, but I picked the wrong weapon for the job...next time, I'll use a rifle, not a Gauge.

Oh, and nobody snitch on me, K?  Cause if you do, I won't miss twice.

[Javier]

Aaron Burr 2.0 lol

[Teddy Roosevelt]

"Accidently" The CIA is behind this.

[h cottie is bac-tive?]

what a dick

[Eihtball]

"Accidently" The CIA is behind this.

No, muh'fucka!  I AM!  And I'm repping the 5% Nation, trying to buck tha white devil, God.

[Dubz]

hes on crack

[coola]

WTF ?? LOL how do you shoot someone in the face and chest by accident ?

[Sikotic™]

Last time I checked, quails were alot smaller than an adult.

[h cottie is bac-tive?]

Dick Cheney --------->