Story courtesy of the AP:
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong. Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
I know I see this as a lot more, well, for lack of a better term, awesome, than it probably was when it went down. I imagine an enraged zombie-Cheney, blasting his 'friend' with double-aught buckshot, and then snarling, "You got in the way of the bird, ASSHOLE" with white spittle flying from his mouth as he begins to beat at a 78 year old with the stock of the shotgun. It would be the most honest of expression of the contempt for human life he feels that Cheney would ever be seen to perform.
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