Years ago, Cheney was shooting victim
It turns out that Vice President Dick Cheney, who recently made news when he peppered a fellow quail hunter with birdshot, was himself once accidentally shot while hunting. According to the Associated Press at LubbockOnline.com:
Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest said he doesn’t know for certain if he or his twin brother, Dick Forrest, fired the shot during the late 1990s that accidentally pelted Cheney - at the time the chief executive at the Halliburton company.
“We’re probably the only twins in the United States that have shot the vice president and never have gone to jail,” Forrest joked.
It occurred on the Three Rivers Ranch in southern New Mexico that was owned by the late Colin McMillan, an assistant secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush. Cheney wasn’t hurt but he was miffed, Forrest recalled.
“He said, ‘You guys watch where you’re shooting!’ He was very offended,” Forrest said.
Over at Free Republic, poster dead, a well-known historian, informs us that Cheney was not the first Vice President to be shot while hunting.
Identical twin brothers, Jo-jo and Billy Ray Festoon, accidently put six bullets into the legs of Vice President Willie Wheeler during a drunken hunting game in 1880.
Wheeler didn’t press charges because the boys were good people and he probably deserved being shot for agreeing to wear the deer costume.
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