"Crazed" Dick Cheney in Stand-off with Police after Shooting Man

[kurth]

"Crazed" Dick Cheney in Stand-off with Police after Shooting Man
February 12, 2006

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS (PoopyCaca.com) - Vice President Dick Cheney remains holed up in a Texas hunting lodge after shooting a 78-year-old man, keeping police at bay by randomly firing over their heads. Initial reports indicated Cheney had accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, but when police arrived at the lodge, Cheney "went wild," according to Butch Anderson, a deputy sheriff who was among the first on the scene.

"Mr. Cheney started screaming that he wouldn't be taken alive," Anderson said. "He said he got 'a taste of human blood' and he liked it. That's when he started firing at us and we set up a perimeter around the lodge." From outside the lodge, Cheney, apparently drunk, could be heard singing along to old Johnny Cash albums, Anderson said.

Cheney's hunting partner, Harry Whittington, 78, a lawyer from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" after being sprayed with shotgun pellets in the face, neck and chest at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong. Armstrong said Cheney appeared to be turning to shoot a bird when he instead shot Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital by ambulance. "At first I thought it was an accident, but when I looked at Dick he was smiling that sort of weird, crooked smile," Armstrong said. "He kinda' reminded me of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. We just got out of there real quick."

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, continued to call the shooting "an unfortunate accident" and refused to comment on the reported stand-off with police. "Mr. Whittington is very bird-like in his appearance," Mc Bride explained. "It is easy to see how the vice president could have mistaken him for a quail."

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[MrSlayer]

1. That's pretty funny.

I like the pictures.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. From the Feedback section:

Here in Texas we do believe that you should eat whatever you shoot.

Dave:rofl:

[Mnemosyne]

6. That is just too

:rofl: :rofl:

We believe that in NW Pa. also!

[Johnny Noshoes]

3. Thanks

Great way to start the work week.

:rofl:

[HereSince1628]

4. Bored Proconsul turns to Most Dangerous Game

Cheney says this was necessary as he was not allowed to turn lions on Guantanamo prisoners in RFK stadium.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Hunting feral al-Qaeda in Texas is becoming a real biggie I hear.

I guess trial lawyers do look a little like al-Qaeda to a rabid neocon type hunter.