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Title: Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212 ... _pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident
Published: Feb 12, 2006
Author: yahoo
Post Date: 2006-02-12 16:11:03 by Flintlock
Keywords: Accidentally, Cheney, Shoots
Views: 946
Comments: 76
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong. Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance. 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.
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#2. To: Flintlock (#0)
what an evil bastard.
Funny you should mention that because I made a blog entry today of this photo captioned "What evil does to men's faces." Both Cheney and Rumsfeld looked like normal people in November 1975. 30 years later they have transmogrified into monsters and it's literally written all over their faces. Both of them are enough to scare small children these days.
Wow, I didn't even RECOGNIZE Cheney at first - then I noticed that little smirk. I think you have an excellent observation - that after 50 or 60 years of living your face, and especially your characteristic expression truly represent what you're about inside. If you look like a mean, bitter, nasty person when you're past 50, then that's probably what you are.
Read this one.. bizarre: (KDKA) Pittsburgh Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting trip to Westmoreland County this week is drawing criticism.
I'm trying to remember where I read that Hermann Göring and his guests used to have large numbers of game provided to them in this way to shoot, but I can't. It might have been a novel, so I'm not sure it's fact in Göring's case.
#72. To: aristeides (#64)
Have you read anything about Cheney being on this trip with her?
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#60. To: mehitable, siagiah, aristeides (#58)
Sport or Slaughter? VP's Hunting Trip Sparks Criticism
Cheney arrived at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe on Monday to do some hunting at the Rolling Rock Club and Game Preserve -- a private club with farm-raised pheasants; but some say it was no hunt -- it was a slaughter.
Five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants.
The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC.
The hunt sparked the Humane Society to issue a statement chastising Cheney. "We're appalled that so many animals were killed -- for target practice essentially," says Humane Society Vice President Wayne Pacelle.
The White House isn't commenting.
#64. To: Zipporah (#60)
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