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Cheney shoots hunting partner

Posted in Politics, Stupid by Derek at 3:57 am
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Stupid, yet for some reason, funny at the same time.

Never sneak up behind Dick Cheney when he has a gun in his hand. That is the painful lesson learned by Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, 78, in a hunting accident at the weekend. [...] Mr Whittington, the United States vice-president, and a third person went quail shooting on Saturday at one of the grandest ranches in Texas.

As you can already imagine based off the title, Cheney neglected to check his line of fire before unloading some buck shot into feeling quail. It just so happened his hunting partner was the only thing to get hit.

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One Response to “Cheney shoots hunting partner”

  1. [...] Apparently getting a handful of bird pellets in your face, arms, and chest isn’t enough: The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a “minor heart attack,” […] [...]

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