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    WASHINGTON (Feb. 12) - 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 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.

    Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.


    02/12/06 16:20 EST

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    Originally posted by Tant01
    WASHINGTON (Feb. 12) - 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 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.

    Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.


    02/12/06 16:20 EST
    thats what you get for trying to slaughter helpless birds for fun with a shotgun. karma is a bitch. i only wish cheney was the one who got hit, not his friend.

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    • #3
      Good thing it was probably #6 and not 00!

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      • #4
        The shotgun is the LEAST of our worries!

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        • #5
          aseepish, Now that's funny!!

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          • #6
            I love how the blame is shifted

            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."

            WHAT???!!!! any good wingshooter should clearly define a field of fire (from about 10 o'clock to 2) and not stray from it, I am suprised that Mr.Cheney broke this cardinal rule and spun to follow and fire on a bird clearly not in his safe zone, bringing his muzzle into an area that he did not have a clear view of. These are simple rules that I was taught at about 12 years of age, but then again I was being taught firearms safety at 7 with acrossman airrifle, so maybe I am a little more saftey oriented than most shooters.

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            • #7
              Beer and birds and BEER!

              Evidently there were beers involved with this negligent act of assault with a deadly weapon...

              Or excuse me, A beer...................

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              • #8



                hehehehahaha...

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