Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
 

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

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...tm?POE=NEWISVA

Just happy it wasn't any worse.

In Texas, and hopefully soon in GA, it's not agin the law to shoot a lawyer, according to a reliable source, Wiki.

I'm surprised he didn't have a heart attack after sending a buckshot into the guy.

-Rudey

So many jokes come out of this already, I'm just loving it!! :D

Well, the hunter can at least be glad that they had an ambulance on stand-by for Cheney and his heart...

I LOVELOVELOVE the phrase "sprayed a fellow hunter in the face" - boing

Hey, he copied that from the movie "Wedding Crashers."

So now you're saying that shooting lawyers is a good idea?

Where in his post did it say that?

-Rudey
--At one point you posted about killing me. :(

Are you so bitter that you have no sense of humor left?

Guns don't wound people. Dick Cheney wounds people.

LOL:)

Trust me, I have a sense of humor, Zippy.

I have a GREAT sense of humor! Zippy Zamboni REALLY makes me laugh!

ETA: WE WERE THINKING THE SAME THING! HA, HA, HA. I POSTED WITHOUT READING YOUR POST. THAT'S TOO FUNNY!

So I went out for a cheese calzone yesterday and while I was waiting in line they had the press conference on.

Apparently the shot hunter's wife is the one that broke the news (it was a group decision) and she basically accepted fault for him: he'd gone around to startle the quail and not notified the other hunters.

Shot hunter has heart attack
 

If (God forbid) the shot man dies, will Cheney be charged with murder, or would it be something like manslaughter?

the owner of the ranch called the local newspaper here in Corpus Christi and told them, then the national news found out. the wife's name has never been mentioned down here. Katherine Armstrong has been all over the news and her family owns the Armstrong ranch, where the shooting occured. I may be wrong, but it's been on the news every 5 seconds it seems....

and :eek: about the heart attack! Cheney could be in BIG trouble. I can see the headlines now.....US VP arrested for murder. I can't even imagine how crazy this could end up. Not that I'm a fan of the guy, it would just suck to have the VP in jail.

I heard they didn't have the required permits for hunting. Will he be fined in any sort of way?

:eek: :eek: @ the possible outcomes.

I wouldn't think he would be charged with murder for an accidental shooting like this one.

Cheney is not the first U.S. Vice President to shoot someone.

Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Ok, I'm glad someone else thought of that; I felt like such a nerd, that was one of the first things I thought of when this story came out.

I just thought of a very funny line from the radio as I was driving to work this morning.

Of course this was before the information on the heart attack came out.

The jocks were talking about the accident and all of the jokes about it on the late night TV shows, etc.

One guy kind of paused and said, "You know, no one has said whether he (Cheney) got the bird."

The other guy just dead panned, "I'll bet his friend gave it to him."

Everyone in the studio broke up because it wasn't a planned line, apparantely.

When things like this happen I imagine the amount of awkwardness that must fill the room.

If W says something stupid, Karl Rove and his advisors are like "Shut the __ up. I cannot believe you said that on national TV!". And in this case Cheney probably is covering his head and drooping while W is yelling "What the heck is wrong with you?? You couldn't just buy a Perdue chicken? You had to kill your own?"

-Rudey
--Just thinking of that awkward moment makes me smile

Or the VP telling W about it. "Well, the good news is my heart feels strong; the bad news is I shot someone."

Does this make anyone else think of that line in "The Chronic of Narnia" that goes, "Call me Aaron Burr for the way I'm droppin' Hamiltons"?

The need for that particular permit was a new law (4 or 5 months old) and it is a $7 add on to the standard hunting license, which he did have. He said he has written a check for $7.00 and sent it in already. The article I read (CNN I think) said that most people are getting off with just a warning since it's a new requirement.

We were discussing that in the office for a brief period today (a law office). The charge would probably be negligent homicide. I haven' t had class 1 on criminal law yet, so I don't know whether actual negligence is required in negligent homicide (but it seems likely).

If that is so, the victim expiring from a heart attack would have had to be a foreseeable consequence of Cheney's accidental shooting. I think that's a pretty solid defense here -- at least assuming that the defendant being the proximate cause is a necessary element of the crime. Besides, he's the V.P. They don't charge V.P.'s with crimes when there's a question of causation.

That's my guess.

Now, is Cheney liable in tort? He even has a good defense there if the victim had the 'last clear chance' to avoid the injury -- or at least he can mitigate his loss by the comparative negligence of the other party.

Having gone to school down there, it drives me nuts that no one can pronounce the name of or spell the name of the hospital correctly. Its prounounced 'spawn' like the spawn of satan. It is spelled Spohn. Not Spawn, not Spahn, and not Spaohn. I dont know why it is called that. Probably named after some old german doctor from a hundred years ago or something, but the name is on the damn sign behind where they are giving the press conferences.

Even the TV stations here in SA cant get it right and we're only two hours away. Half of SA has family in corpus and was probably born at that damn hospital.

I dont know why it bothers me so much. Guess its just one of the basics of journalism to get the most basic of facts correct.

ok, here's my new pet peeve with the crappy reporting on this. on good morning america this morning (and other reports) reporters keep saying there are "possibly hundreds of pellets" in the guy. OMG! Are you all that stupid?! He was shot ONCE with a shot gun, with a max of 70 pellets. I don't know where they get this crap from.....

life...thanks for the correction on saying Spohn. It really is not that difficult folks...and it is Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital, not Corpus Christi Memorial.

now, back to your regulalry scheduled posts...

Did you just start law school?

I swear, everyone I know is a first year.

Law school is the cool thing to do, especially when the job market sucks.

Oooh, good call.

Same here.

But I'm in law school. I don't have much contact with the outside world :)

Yay! Go you!

I did (am?) dating a guy who's doing law school and work. Only I think they have this "three fourths" thing for law school, where it's more than part time but less than full time.

I don't know, but he always wants to talk law.

The job market does not suck. It's pretty good actually.

-Rudey

"Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney,"

-Rudey

I had four offers in one week.

-- Everyone wants me