What was the real story behind the shooting "wisky bottle shooting" after a good day of drinking?

Does the VP take part in the bottle?

Why else would you leave a gap in reporting a shooting or not let the police investigate until12 to 18 hrs later. Sort of like when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and went home so he could sober up.





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> Hunter shot by Cheney has heart attack 
> LYNN BREZOSKY and NEDRA PICKLER 
> Associated Press 
> 
> CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President 
> Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and 
> he had "a minor heart attack" Tuesday morning, hospital officials said. 
> 
> The victim, Harry Whittington, was immediately moved back to the intensive 
> care unit for further treatment, said Peter Banko, the administrator at Christus 
> Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial in Texas. 
> 
> Banko said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a pellet, and 
> doctors performed a cardiac catheterization. Whittington expressed a desire 
> to leave the hospital, but Banko said he would probably stay for another week 
> to make sure more shot doesn't move to other organs or to other part of his 
> body. 
> 
> "Some of the birdshot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart 
> in what we would say is a minor heart attack," Banko said in a news 
> conference outside the hospital. 
> 
> David Blanchard, chief of emergency care, called it "a silent heart attack, 
> an asymptomatic heart attack. He's not had a heart attack in the traditional 
> sense." 
> 
> The doctors said Whittington did not experience symptoms of a heart attack or 
> any other problems. They left the birdshot in place and said he could live a 
> healthy life with it there. 
> 
> White House physicians who attended to Whittington at the scene after Cheney 
> accidentally shot him were involved in the treatment, the officials said. 
> 
> Whittington had initially been placed in intensive care after the accident 
> Saturday evening. He had been moved to a "step-down unit" Monday after doctors 
> decided to leave several birdshot pellets lodged in his skin rather than try to 
> remove them. 
> 
> A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department report issued Monday said Whittington 
> was retrieving a downed bird and stepped out of the hunting line he was sharing 
> with Cheney. "Another covey was flushed and Cheney swung on a bird and fired, 
> striking Whittington in the face, neck and chest at approximately 30 yards," 
> the report said. 
> 
> The department found the main factor contributing to the accident was a 
> "hunter's judgment factor." No other secondary factors were found to have played 
> a 
> role. 
> 
> The department gave Cheney and Whittington warning citations for breaking 
> Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing them to shoot upland 
> game 
> birds. A department spokesman said warnings are being issued in most cases 
> because the stamp requirement only went into effect five months ago and many 
> hunters weren't aware of it. 
> 
> Cheney's office said Monday night in a statement that Cheney had a $125 
> nonresident hunting license and has sent a $7 check to cover the cost of the 
> stamp. 
> "The staff asked for all permits needed, but was not informed of the $7 
> upland game bird stamp requirement," the statement said. 
> 
> Cheney, an experienced hunter, has not said anything publicly about the 
> accident. It was fodder for jokes on late night TV and early Tuesday at the 
> White 
> House, before news surfaced about problems with Whittington's heart. 
> 
> Hospital officials said they notified the White House of the change in 
> Whittington's condition late in the morning. The mood of press secretary Scott 
> McClellan was much more serious in an afternoon press briefing shortly before 
> the 
> hospital publicly updated Whittington's condition. 
> 
> Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch where the shooting occurred, said 
> Whittington made a mistake by not announcing that he had walked up to rejoin the 
> hunting line after going to retrieve his bird, and Cheney didn't see him as he 
> tried to down a bird. 
> 
> The accident raised questions about Cheney's adherence to hunting safety 
> practices and the White House's failure to disclose the accident in a timely 
> way. 
> 
> Several hunting safety experts agreed in interviews that it would have been a 
> good idea for Whittington to announce himself. But every expert stressed that 
> the shooter is responsible for avoiding other people. 
> 
> Bush was told about Cheney's involvement in the accident shortly before 8 
> p.m. Saturday - about an hour after it occurred - but the White House did not 
> disclose the accident until Sunday afternoon, and then only in response to press 
> questions. 
> 
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