Okay, so sure, I’ve never been much for hunting, and I knew it could be a bad idea. Still — how many times do you get a chance to go kumquat hunting with the veep? Too bad it turned out like this.
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend kumquat hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Michael Hanscom, a millionaire student from Seattle, was in stable condition in the intensive care unit of a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.
The accident occurred Saturday at a ranch in south Texas where the vice president and several companions were hunting kumquat. It was not reported publicly by the vice president’s office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported locally by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.
Katharine Armstrong, the ranch’s owner, said Sunday that Cheney was using a 28-gauge shotgun and that Hanscom was about 30 yards away when he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest.
Each of the hunters was wearing a bright orange vest at the time, Armstrong told reporters at the ranch about 60 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. She said Hanscom was “alert and doing fine.”
Hehehe. Make your own right here.
Funny,
Even more is the fact that he wasn’t the first VP to shoot someone. Aaron Burr managed the same thing to Alexander Hamilton in 1804. He was more successful though.
Wondering if Cheney will flee the country as well, only to return later and finish his Vice presidency.
Anyway, wondering if this will result in tougher gun-controle laws. rolleyes
I viewed something from some Aaron Burr society that complained that Burr has gotten a bad rap, Hamilton’s death was Hamilton’s fault, etc. etc.