# Shooting at pen raised quail a few feet from your car??? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403 "2006-02-14T04:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/1 "2006-02-14T04:28:46Z")
What does it say about the character of a person who shoots at pen raised quail, released and shot a few feet from your car? Is that what Cheney was doing for entertainment? Should we be asking, why does the vice president find that activity fun in the first place? Is this very common for fat, over privelidged pasty ass rich guys to do in between ordering torture and starting wars? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/2 "2006-02-14T04:38:26Z")
FYI: You misspelled “atheist” in your location. ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/3 "2006-02-14T05:01:56Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/4 "2006-02-14T05:24:15Z")
> [@mrrealtime](#): > > What does it say about the character of a person who shoots at pen raised quail, released and shot a few feet from your car? Is that what Cheney was doing for entertainment? Should we be asking, why does the vice president find that activity fun in the first place? No. What he does for recreation, so long as it’s legal, is none of your fucking business. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/5 "2006-02-14T05:34:00Z")
_shrug_ It was Dick Cheney, a man known for his delicate heart condition, and a 78-year old man. What, you want them to go hiking for miles looking for wild boar? Maybe in their younger days they did tougher things, but these are some elderly guys we’re talking about here. Think of it as hunting for the frail. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/6 "2006-02-14T05:34:36Z")
Sure sure. Have you ever watched Entertainment tonight? Ever read a tabloid? Ever watched the news? I hope not, because anything that anyone does that doesnt directly affect you is clearly none of your fucking business. The character of the person 2nd in command of the most powerful country in the world affects his judgement, which, in turn, affects billions of people, directly and indirectly. When he chose to take on the job, everything he does is all of our fucking business, at least until he no longer has the power to make decisions that affect all of us. ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/7 "2006-02-14T05:38:30Z")
Well, theres no point in taking on “hunting as a form of entertainment”. I retract. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/8 "2006-02-14T05:39:22Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > No. What he does for recreation, so long as it’s legal, is none of your fucking business. I’m as much a “live and let live” kinda guy as anyone, but c’mon. He might as well have been shooting at a bucket of KFC for all the sport there was in it. I have absolutely no problem with hunting, but when you’re setting up live animals to be little more than target practice, that’s just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/9 "2006-02-14T05:50:55Z")
Thanks Q.E.D, you stated what I should have said, because thats what I meant. I could really use someone like you at work! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/10 "2006-02-14T05:58:22Z")
Psst. We’re over [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358489). ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-at-pen-raised-quail-a-few-feet-from-your-car/344403/11 "2006-02-14T06:00:38Z")
Exactly. One Pitting per topic, please. Closed.