Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured man

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot
and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his
spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney
sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the
Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine
Armstrong.
Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally
hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi
Memorial Hospital by ambulance reports AP
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president
was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at
the hospital on Sunday afternoon.