Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: yamadakun
Heart disease is transmittable by gunpowder?

Yep - via shotgun pellets lodged in his heart if you read the article.

They also say the range was about 30 yards - Ouch! I though I had heard 70 to 80 yards, which is getting pretty damn far for bird shot.

Actually, it is a single birdshot pellet and the heart attack is described as minor.

From the linked article:
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," a hospital official said Tuesday.

That implies multiple pellets to me, but that's nitpicking

Yeah, but later in the article it says:

He said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a birdshot pellet

which implies a single birdshot pellet to me.

I know it is nitpicking but it is how bad information gets spread. Like yesterday on the 2 Live Stews Show they said that Cheney shot Whittington three times. When in fact, Whittington was hit by three pellets from a single shot.

That probably stems from a fundemental lack of understanding about what a shotgun is. Somebody told them he had been hit by three pellets, they think bullets, and assume three shots must have been fired.

Anyway - feference for just 3 pellets total? I was under the impression it was alot more, but I haven't followed it very closely.

 

[mzkhadir]

do you think cheney would go to jail for killing this guy ?

 

[ondarkness]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
I'm glad so many people think it's funny that an old man has a heart attack. :roll:

.. I don't think you got it.
The old man was previously sprayed in the face by a Dick Cheney..
edit:-oh yea, while out in the woods.
hunting i think..

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
do you think cheney would go to jail for killing this guy ?

#1 - he isn't going to die
#2 - it was a hunting accident. i don't think they are prosecuted like a murder would be.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
do you think cheney would go to jail for killing this guy ?

Very unlikely, unless there was something particularly reckless about his shooting when and where he did. I am not a bird hunter, but most people who are seem to feel that both Cheney and Whittington are partially to blame. Whittington failed to announce his presence, and Cheney a) fired without knowing whether someone was in his path and b) fired when the bird was too close to the ground to safely shoot.

The upshot (no pun intended) is that I can't imagine a criminal prosecution in this case. The victim probably COULD get some money in a civil suit, but he's already wealthy, and presumably would rather get the perks associated with being shot by VP Cheney than go for the cash.