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02/12/2006 04:40:46 PM · #1
You can't make this crap up..

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02/12/2006 04:41:48 PM · #2
I read that awhile ago on Yahoo news.....I laughed very loudly...
02/12/2006 04:44:38 PM · #3
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02/12/2006 04:44:40 PM · #4
That could have been in the "Oops..." challenge.

Seriously, thanks goodness the man is okay.
02/12/2006 04:45:41 PM · #5
Originally posted by buzzrock:

YES I know there's a typo in the Title.


Made me think you were in the NRA! :-P
02/12/2006 04:48:23 PM · #6
“Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there [...]"

That's comforting... They probably follow him around with a crash cart.. lol
02/12/2006 04:50:07 PM · #7
Panning (to keep the photogrpahy) with the shotgun -> Duck... Duck.... Duck.... DUCK! (no really - hit the ground). Your right, you cannot make this stuff up.
02/12/2006 04:56:04 PM · #8
It's okay, he just shot a lawyer.

Disclaimer: No lawyers were hurt in the making of this post.
02/12/2006 05:00:39 PM · #9
Originally posted by NathanW:

It's okay, he just shot a lawyer.

Disclaimer: No lawyers were hurt in the making of this post.


A busload of lawyers drives off a cliff, how do you save them?

Disclaimer: It's a trick question... Ya don't bother.

Message edited by author 2006-02-12 17:01:21.
02/12/2006 05:02:24 PM · #10
The funny part is that I just watched "Wedding Crashers" last night and they were out hunting quail and one of them got shot in the butt!
02/12/2006 05:14:45 PM · #11
There they go again, another "friendly fire" incident. When will this admistration ever learn? ;)
02/12/2006 05:19:23 PM · #12
I'm not sure why some to think this is funny - it could have been very serious indeed if the man's eye had been lost.

It's my understanding that the lawyer failed to follow basic hunting safety procedures - namely, announcing your presence behind the guy with the gun.

While embarrassing to Cheney, IMHO it really wasn't his fault.
02/12/2006 05:21:53 PM · #13
Originally posted by NathanW:

It's okay, he just shot a lawyer.

Disclaimer: No lawyers were hurt in the making of this post.


ROTFLMAO
02/12/2006 05:22:15 PM · #14
Originally posted by A1275:

I'm not sure why some to think this is funny - it could have been very serious indeed if the man's eye had been lost.

It's my understanding that the lawyer failed to follow basic hunting safety procedures - namely, announcing your presence behind the guy with the gun.

While embarrassing to Cheney, IMHO it really wasn't his fault.


It really isn't funny. I don't know all the procedures but I always thought you were suppose to identify the target before firing? It sounds like they were both at fault.
02/12/2006 05:29:22 PM · #15
Originally posted by ButterflySis:

Originally posted by A1275:

I'm not sure why some to think this is funny - it could have been very serious indeed if the man's eye had been lost.

It's my understanding that the lawyer failed to follow basic hunting safety procedures - namely, announcing your presence behind the guy with the gun.

While embarrassing to Cheney, IMHO it really wasn't his fault.


It really isn't funny. I don't know all the procedures but I always thought you were suppose to identify the target before firing? It sounds like they were both at fault.


Seems to me the buck stops (ok, pun intended) with the person with the finger on the go button :-/
02/12/2006 05:39:17 PM · #16
It happens a lot when going quail hunting on some quail fields. I have been to a few around here when I was younger. Picture a football field, that is what it kind of looks like but much wider and longer and you have hunter on each sideline. As the birds fly down the field everyone begins to shoot. If a hunter shoots a just the right angle the pellets will make it to the other side and possibly hit another hunter.

I have been stung a few times with pellets. It feels like riding a motorcycle in the rain. It hurts! The first time it happened to me I dropped my gun and started singing like a girl, I thought I was shot. Everybody had a big laugh about it, BUT ME!
02/12/2006 05:50:54 PM · #17
Originally posted by ButterflySis:

It really isn't funny. I don't know all the procedures but I always thought you were suppose to identify the target before firing? It sounds like they were both at fault.


The farther the distance from the gun to the intended target, the more expanded the birdshot pattern becomes. Sounds to me like the lawyer just got hit by some stray pellets by accident, and performed the first negligent event by not properly announcing his location.

We'll probably never know the full story, and certainly it's possible that if Cheney had been more careful the accident wouldn't have happened. I'm just sad to see the story get twisted around so Cheney shoulders the full brunt of the blame, when (again, IMHO) that doesn't appear to be fitting. I mean, it's not like Cheney mistook a grown man on the ground for a flying bird and aimed right at him.
02/12/2006 05:52:38 PM · #18
I just find it precious that Cheney was hunting quail in Texas.

Nothing against hunting quail in Texas, but he just reinforced his stereotype there, which made me laugh.

Oh...then he shot a guy on accident, that's an unfortunate event, thankfully the guy seems like he will be alright. It's also unfortunate (and funny) for Cheney who will be the butt of a whole new batch of late night television jokes for the next few months at least...
02/12/2006 06:04:22 PM · #19
He thought quail hunting was going for after those pesky libs. His aim was on Dan Quayle, but he missed and hit a lawyer.
02/12/2006 06:06:34 PM · #20
Oh ... I'm not going here. This is just so ripe to end up in the Rant section!

Message edited by author 2006-02-12 18:06:45.
02/12/2006 06:42:10 PM · #21
Originally posted by buzzrock:

You can't make this crap up..

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I was on the elliptical trainer at the gym when this flashed accross the screen. I started busting up laughing. That is just too much.
02/12/2006 06:42:31 PM · #22
Originally posted by Tom Lehrer:


Almost every day during the hunting season you see at least one item in the newspapers about somebody who has shot somebody else, under the impression that he was a deer with a red hat, perhaps. Maybe a large flesh-colored squirrel. At any rate, it seems to me that this marks an encouraging new trend in the field of blood sports, and deserves a new type of hunting song which I present herewith.


The Hunting Song (1953)
02/12/2006 06:52:42 PM · #23
Originally posted by TooCool:



A busload of lawyers drives off a cliff, how do you save them?

Disclaimer: It's a trick question... Ya don't bother.


Hey now... You have to think of the bus driver. I'M A BUS DRIVER, both commuter and school bus.
02/12/2006 06:57:01 PM · #24
This one sounds pretty innocent, but Bush has to be shaking his head saying "What next??"
02/12/2006 07:06:52 PM · #25
I peppered my brother once with shotgun birdshot. The ground was frozen. I shot a rabbit and the pellets bounced off the frozen ground. It happens, luckily not ofter. So, they will all laugh about it after they dig the pellets out. ;;.::...( :)
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