Dick Cheney shoots a lawyer

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Whoah, Dick Cheney must be badass. America, fuck yeah!

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Cheney Shoots Lawyer
By NEDRA PICKLER, AP

Attorney Harry Whittington was behind Dick Cheney when the vice president turned while aiming at a covey of birds and fired.

WASHINGTON (Feb. 12)AP/KRT - 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 in stable condition Sunday, said 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.


"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."
-Katharine Armstrong, ranch owner

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

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president met with Whittington and his wife at the hospital on Sunday. Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," she said.

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until the day 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.
 
Uh. Already mentioned that in the robber-shootin' Grandma thread.

And Cheney looks like a grandma. The kind of grandma that eat wolves for breakfast, but a grandma nonetheless.

Grandma Dick.

Or something.
 
I cant wait for the barrage of accusations that Cheney is an attempted-murderer.

Also him alone in the woods with another man sounds like he was on a homosexual outing.

The only positive thing is that the guy he shot was a rich attorney...we have to many of those in this country.

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The Vault Dweller
 
Who is Harry Whittington?
It's been a tumultuous week for the Texas Funeral Service Commission. On Monday, Travis County District Court Judge John Dietz ruled that Gov. George W. Bush won't have to testify in Eliza May's whistle-blower lawsuit against the agency. On Tuesday, the old TFSC board was dismissed. On Wednesday, the new board, headed by Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, took over the struggling agency. The moves are the latest developments in the ongoing drama surrounding the funeral regulatory agency. And while the new board should bring some stability to the tiny agency, the biggest development in the funeral scandal came when Dietz, a Democrat, ruled that lawyers for May, the former executive director of the TFSC, did not prove that Bush has "unique and superior knowledge" of the facts in the case. The ruling came after an all-day hearing rich in hyperbole.
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Also: Bush and the gravedigger

Looks like Cheney was trying to drum up Whittington some of his own business. Now where is Dr. Jerkoholic to prove that Bush ordered Cheney to do it?

Moral: Don't mess with Texas.
 
You trust this guy to be vice president when he shoots his lawyer in a hunting accident.

Hey, what would the NRA say?
 
Except for the fact that the lawyer survived, and seems to be recovering well enough (though he is going to have facial scars for the expierence).
 
Wow...so he's an even worse hunter than he is a vice-president, as anyone with experience knows that you don't even aim unless you know for certain where your partners are at.

But when has common sense ever played a place with Cheney, really?
 
If Harry Whittington dies from that hail in his heart, will there be manslaughter charges against Cheney?
 
I hate how they have pictured the whole thing like if it was the laywers fault. Any hunter know that you have to be aware of your surroundings when you are hunting. That a person fails to notify you about his wereabouts is not a good enough exuse to get of the hook. He should loose all hunting priviliges and licenses for firearms over and over when doing something that fucked upp. What an amature.
 
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