02-24-2006, 06:13 AM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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Originally Posted by Astrocloud
It was no accident. The guy was wearing a bright orange hat and vest.
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You ever been hunting?
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MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- As the White House continued to deflect questions about why it took 24 hours to acknowledge that Vice President Dick Cheney had wounded a companion during a weekend quail-hunting trip, all involved agreed it was an unfortunate accident.
And though not commonplace, such accidents can -- and do -- happen, experts say.
"There are about 700 nonfatal hunting accidents each year in the United States and Canada," said Jim Wentz, a spokesman for the International Hunter Education Association. "In addition, there are about 75 fatal hunting accidents each year. That's out of the 15.7 million people who hunt."
On Saturday, Cheney wounded another hunter in his party -- Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas lawyer and Republican fundraiser -- while they were pursuing quail at a south Texas ranch.
The mishap is being chalked up to carelessness on Whittington's part, and a case of a hunter concentrating on his target -- in this case a bird as it was flushed from cover and started to fly off.
Fortunately for Whittington, the ammunition used in quail hunting is small pellets that spray over a wide area at low velocity and lose momentum fairly quickly.
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http://12.31.13.175/healthnews/healt...13HD531014.htm
Only someone who knows NOTHING about firearms would use bird shot to kill a man at 30 yards and Cheney being the evil neo-con mastermind that he is would know how to kill a man, most likely using only a chewing gum wrapper and a breath mint.
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