Hunter Shot By Cheney Has Minor Heart Attack

The Cheney shooting incident stopped being funny this morning when the fellow hunter who was accidentally shot by Dick Cheney over the weekend suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart.

Harry Whittington, age 78, is in stable condition in intensive care and will remain hospitalized for up to seven days, hospital officials said.

"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," said Peter Banko, administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial

Doctors were deciding how to treat Whittington's condition, which was discovered after doctors noticed an irregularity in his heartbeat, Banko said.

Dr. David Blanchard, the hospital's emergency room chief, said Whittington suffered an "asymptomatic heart attack," without displaying symptoms such as chest pains or breathing difficulty. He said a roughly 5 mm piece of shot became lodged in or alongside Whittington's heart muscle, causing the organ's upper two chambers to beat irregularly.

There's an expression:  "As funny as a heart attack."  Meaning not funny at all.  That would apply here.

Cheney shooting joke moratorium hereby declared.

Prayers and best wishes for Harry Whittington and his family, and for Dick Cheney and his family, would also be in order.

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Comments

[Confederate Yankee]

A 5 milimeter piece of lead moved into Whitington's heart, but Cheney's 28-gauge shotgun was firing #7 1/2 shells which use 2.41 milimeter pellets.

Grassy knowl, anyone?

Run Mr. Vice President!

IT'S A TRAP!!!