# Cheney shoots hunting companion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151 "2006-02-12T21:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/1 "2006-02-12T21:01:51Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap\_on\_go\_pr\_wh/cheney\_hunting\_accident](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident) This is what happens when you insult the administration. Only proves that idiots should not have guns. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/2 "2006-02-12T21:06:36Z")
So much for that guy testifying in any “leak” investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/3 "2006-02-12T21:12:42Z")
It also goes to show that on real hunting trips rather than ridiculous photo ops, the guns are actually loaded. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/4 "2006-02-12T21:12:57Z")
Yeah, accidentally, that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/5 "2006-02-12T21:21:05Z")
Does this make it a weapon of _singular_ destruction? ---
**Author:** ![M.Meursault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@M.Meursault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M.Meursault)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/6 "2006-02-12T21:29:57Z")
Cheney has an ambulance on call? Since when? ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/7 "2006-02-12T21:58:46Z")
> [@Evil One](#): > > It also goes to show that on real hunting trips rather than ridiculous photo ops, the guns are actually loaded. REAL hunting trips? Sounds like they were riding around in a car and hopping out to shoot. Talk about roughing it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/8 "2006-02-12T22:23:03Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > REAL hunting trips? Sounds like they were riding around in a car and hopping out to shoot. Talk about roughing it. :rolleyes: A hair more challenging than the time that he bagged 75 birds in Pennsylvania, no? If I recall correctly, those birds were brought out and placed before Cheney’s shooting party. At least in this incident, the hunters were moving, albeit by vehicle. Still, I guess in others’ books, Cheney qualifies as a real hunter. To each his own. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/9 "2006-02-12T22:31:39Z")
> [@M. Meursault](#): > > Cheney has an ambulance on call? Since when? Either since he became VP or due to the fact that his heart stops beating every now and then. Now if he as shot Dan Quayle that would have been funny. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/10 "2006-02-12T22:33:29Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Either since he became VP or due to the fact that his heart stops beating every now and then. > Now if he as shot Dan Quayle that would have been funny. Yo, **Zebra** , reckon they’ll invite Cheney to the car shoot? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/11 "2006-02-12T22:35:28Z")
What? no one else is going to comment on the picture? He looks like a dog protecting his dinner. grrrrrr ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/12 "2006-02-12T22:36:59Z")
> [@M. Meursault](#): > > Cheney has an ambulance on call? Since when? Doesn’t really surpise me. The man has had a couple heart attacks, hasn’t he? With that kind of record and if I could afford it, I’d have a doctor following me around too. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/13 "2006-02-12T22:37:27Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > What? no one else is going to comment on the picture? He looks like a dog protecting his dinner. grrrrrr Oh, you mean his normal look? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/14 "2006-02-12T22:48:14Z")
Obviously, Dick Cheney’s Secret Service protection squad needs a new role – protecting other people from Dick Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/15 "2006-02-12T22:58:16Z")
Something my dad used to say: I would not hurt thee for the world, sir; but thou art standing where I wish to shoot! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/16 "2006-02-12T23:14:05Z")
I guess he was tired of living vicariously through the military… ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/17 "2006-02-12T23:21:35Z")
I will be honest - my local news opening with: “_Breaking News this hour - Vice President Dick Cheney has shot a man in Texas_” made me laugh out loud and immediately revise my list of funniest one liners ‘evar’. I realize a man was injured and I hope he is OK. But dang that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/18 "2006-02-12T23:40:34Z")
Bryan Williams and Andrea Mitchell report this shit went down yesterday and was “confirmed by the White House” when reported by a local paper. Forthcoming as all getout I guess. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/19 "2006-02-12T23:42:23Z")
> [@jimmmy](#): > > I will be honest - my local news opening with: > > “_Breaking News this hour - Vice President Dick Cheney has shot a man in Texas_” > > made me laugh out loud and immediately revise my list of funniest one liners ‘evar’. “He shot a man in Texas, just to watch him die” ? ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/20 "2006-02-12T23:44:53Z")
In all seriousness this Mitchell fellow is pretty lucky they were hunting birds, buckshot would’ve probably killed him. He came off with what appears to be fairly minor injuries from this. Also as to why Cheney has an ambulance on call, it’s more than likely because he is the Vice President. I know at least back to 1981 President’s had ambulances at their beck and call as it was mentioned in a news article back when Reagan was shot (although I don’t believe the ambulance was actually used as the Secret Service pushed him into the Presidential limousine to get him out of the area quickly.) I wouldn’t be surprised if VPs have the same sort of thing going. And then on top of that of course, Cheney is not generally considered to be a well man. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151.md?page=2)