Cheney accidentally shoots hunting partner

[Starchild]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a 78-year-old man while the two of them were hunting on a ranch in South Texas, Cheney's office said.


Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride confirmed a news account that Cheney had turned to shoot quail that had just been flushed but instead peppered Harry Whittington with shotgun pellets, striking one side of his body.

The incident occurred around 5:30 pm (2330 GMT) on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch, where the vice president is a frequent visitor, according to an eyewitness account in the local Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper.


Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch, said Whittington was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial by ambulance, the newspaper reported.

Armstrong said Cheney, 65, had not noticed that Whittington had approached him from behind. "Nobody wants this to happen, but it does," she told the Caller-Times.

Armstrong said the vice president's secret service security detail had tended to the wounded man, according to the newspaper.

"The vice president this afternoon visited with Mister Whittington," said McBride, who vouched for the report but would not say whether their meeting had taken place at the hospital.

Cheney's office did not disclose the incident when it took place.

CNN television, citing a witness, said that Whittington had "never lost consciousness."

The wounded man was "doing well and in stable condition," hospital spokesman Peter Banko told CNN.

The vice president would return to Washington later Sunday, NBC News reported.

Whittington, an attorney, gave the maximum 2,000 dollars to the 2004 reelection campaign of Cheney and US President George W. Bush, according to the Center for Responsive Politics non-profit organization.

In January 2004, a Cheney duck-hunting trip in Louisiana with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia drew accusations of impropriety because the high court was set to hear a case involving the vice president's energy task force.

In late 2003, Cheney drew criticism for a pheasant hunt at an exclusive club in Pennsylvania, when he reportedly shot 70 of the birds, because of a news report that they had been released from nets.

Let the jokes begin...

Starchild Reviewed by Starchild on 02-13-2006. Cheney accidentally shoots hunting partner WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a 78-year-old man while the two of them were hunting on a ranch in South Texas, Cheney's office said. Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride confirmed a news account that Cheney had turned to shoot quail that had just been flushed but instead peppered Harry Whittington with shotgun pellets, striking one side of his body. The incident occurred around 5:30 pm (2330 GMT) on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch, Rating: 5

[death of sXe]

In late 2003, Cheney drew criticism for a pheasant hunt at an exclusive club in Pennsylvania, when he reportedly shot 70 of the birds, because of a news report that they had been released from nets.

yea i remember this. 70 pheasants trapped with nowhere to hide while dick cheney and his buddies shot them all.
most people have little concept for animals rights but for people like me this is outrageous
:cursing:

So the hunting accident is kind of funny. :thumbsup:

[da haze meister]

please see the "Guns" thread, the part where we talk about stupid fucking hicks that dont know how to handle guns. i betcha that in trap shooting i could beat cheneys score by an incredible spread. fucking old man.

[bedake]

yea i remember this. 70 pheasants trapped with nowhere to hide while dick cheney and his buddies shot them all.
most people have little concept for animals rights but for people like me this is outrageous
:cursing:

So the hunting accident is kind of funny. :thumbsup:

true story, my dad litterally knew dick cheney back when my father was a LT. colonel, my dad also happens to be a lutheran minister, he doesnt swear much, but he will call dick cheney a huge asshole knowing him personally he says that the guy is just a plain out jack ass

[vaporhead1]

That THIS is the #2 "man" in line with his finger on the nuclear trigger !!!!!!!

[stangle12]

and his eyes are on the prize too. you knwo it

[Goodman3eb]

I agree with vaporhead-- this is arguably the most influential and powerful man in the western world (we all know that even GWB listens to Cheney), and has the responsibilities inherent in that office-- and can't even look at what he's shooting before doing so?

That, friends, scares me.

[STDzRus]

LMFAO..Accident?

That's what they'd say for anybody he shot.

[Das Boot]

WOOPS!

[slipknotpsycho]

i personally think it's a cover up for somthing, while i can't say for sure what..

from what i remember "cheney came upon a flock of these damn birds and picked one single one out, which happened to fly infront of anoter hunter wearing ORANGE hunting gear" accident my fucking ass...
the dude's in critical condition....who wants to bet he never recovers from his "accidental injuries"....