Is this the time to say Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot? Or "Don't that beat all?"

Cheney shoots man on Texas quail hunting trip. 

(From MSNBC)  Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and discovered a second covey.

 

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn’t signal them or indicate to them or announce himself,” Armstrong said.
“The vice president didn’t see him,” she continued. “The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot.

 

And by God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.”

On the way home from Mass this AM, I heard an interview with Doris Kearns Godwin on NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge.  Kearns was talking about Lincoln's Cabinet.  It lead me to recalling presidential shootings--Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, Reagan.  Never imagined I'd hear a story about a VP shoooting someone...