Cheney must have shot him at fairly close range

[jsamuel]

I talked to someone who knows about bird hunting like the one here and they found nothing wrong with this story except for one thing.

There is no way pellets would get under the skin and into the heart (or a large vein) unless he was MUCH closer than 30 yards. They said that bird pellets wouldn't even dent plastic from that far out.


Edit:
One other thing, if Whittington was walking back to them, then why was he shot on the side of his face and chest? Shouldn't he have been directly facing Cheney?

[Halliburton]

1. but according to Shrub's mathbook

YARDS=FEET

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2. and 9 inches = 3 inches

:evilgrin:

[IntravenousDemilo]

6. At least in personal ads, eh?

BTW, very funny comment, unblock. You get a valentine for that.


:loveya:

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18. aw, thanky :)

:hi:

[madmunchie]

13. No no, 3" = 9" (ha ha!)

[screembloodymurder]

14. I think you have that backwards.

She asked me to give her 9" so I ******* her three times and ...

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17. mine's in the same order as the previous post, yards=feet

as in, he said yards but it turned out to be feet.

[zbdent]

20. By the book, hours would seem like days . . .

nanu nanu . . .

[txindy]

3. One other point.

It was bitterly cold out that day (high winds from the north), so they were dressed in heavy clothing. Yet, Whittington was shot in the chest (head and neck, too). Through what had to be a heavy jacket. That right there tells me they were closer together than 30 yards.

[ixion]

4. and if unka dick can't see 30 ft in front of him

then he probably shouldn't be holding a firearm, IMO.

[salinen]

5. Whittington probably

blew a smoke ring.

[acmejack]

7. He probably pissed Dick off & he shot him.

Just a casual remark & blam...

[H2O Man]

8. They have said both

30 yards and 30 feet. I note that 30 feet is closer to 30 inches than it is to 30 yards.

Bird shot goes out in a tight pattern that enlargers as it goes. Because it hit the cheek to shoulders, with 200 pellets striking the victim of the VP's gross recklessness, one can safely conclude the shot was closer than originally reported.

[txindy]

10. Yes, especially if the birdshot was able to penetrate a heavy jacket.

The reports claim he was shot in the shoulders/chest. If that's accurate and they reached the skin, that's a powerful blast to get through a heavy jacket.

[understandinglife]

11. 10 yards or less, most likely.

Peace.

[rocktivity]

9. We need one of those "accident reconstruction experts" from Court TV

to do one of those animations. I remember this one case where they totally nailed this guy who said his wife had shot herself. They were able to prove that if she had, given her height and position on her bed, the angle of the gun would have had to be completely different.

:headbang:
rocknation

[C_U_L8R]

15. YES !!! 3D Flythrough Animations

and America's most wanted dramatizations !!!!
Lets see the Cheney shootdown actualized in
excruciating detail from the grassy knoll to
the two saucy reichwing babes and the bottle of Dickle.

[Steve A Play]

16. Calling Mythbusters!

This would be perfect for their show. :)

[Jacobin]

21. Great idea. It would be perfect for them

:thumbsup:

[rocktivity]

22. Well, what do you know? Here's a video from

A photographper from a Corpus Cristi newspaper.

:headbang:
rocknation

[sandnsea]

12. If the distance is wrong

Then everything else is wrong too. We have no idea what happened and they shouldn't be able to cover it up any more than you or I would be able to.

[NYC]

19. They should be able to calculate this.

They know it was a Perazzi 28 gauge shotgun. They know what size the pellets were. (We don't, but they do. The pellets are still in the victim.) They know how deeply the pellets penetrated.

They should be able to calculate the distance between the shotgun and the victim.