Cheney satisfies bloodlust by shooting 70 pheasants (Canned Hunt)

[RamboLiberal]

This is Dicky Mellon Scaife country. Local TV reported Cheney's party of 9 shot 417 birds

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2690219/detail.html

Vice President Dick Cheney hunted duck and pheasant Monday at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Channel 4's Marcie Cipriani reported.

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"We release pheasants off a hill, and they shoot them," club employee Scott Wakefield said. "They all stay in their blinds up ahead of us. The other guys like me, we have our dogs and we run them. We stand below (the hunters), and every bird they shoot, our dogs retrieve them."

Mark Bolish, another club employee, said the vice president shot about 70 birds.

"He seemed like he was very happy when he was done, so we knew we did our job, too," Bolish said.

[funkyflathead]

1. Put and shoot bird hunting- nothing new

Everybody does this nowadays. Raising and stocking quail or pheasant for hunting is big business.

[toddzilla]

2. i hope they call this what it is..

killing animals for no good reason other than to get your rocks off. This isn't hunting.

what a piece of shit.

[dobak]

3. Fucking Assholes!!

Ok, mods, feel free to delete this post

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As a hunter and the admin of www.sportsmenforclark.com, this fucking pisses me off!!

That kind of hunting is disgusting and sickens me!

Again, fucking assholes!!

[Toucano]

9. Damn right!

Can these people care any LESS than they do?

Canned hunts are only popular among sorry-assed, rich, losers.

A lot of hunters are offended by this.

[funkyflathead]

11. It doesn't disgust me

No different than dumping out a bunch of trout and jerking them back out.

Canned? Maybe. But I've seen people do it- mainly with bobwhite quail and chukar.

[ignatius]

45. Give me a break, there is a big difference between a GUN and

a hook. Besides, most fisherman either eat their catch or put them back in.

[theorist]

4. Not exactly McKinley's Roosevelt....

(This post has nothing to do with the fact that some noted astrologers are predicting a presidential death. :scared: Don't come after me, Mr. Ashcroft.)

[LizW]

5. I misread the subject line as "peasants"

and, frighteningly, I wasn't really shocked or surprised.

I clicked on the thread because I was curious as to how Cheney would ever come in contact with 70 peasants.:crazy:

[robbob]

7. Cross post!

too funny!

[RamboLiberal]

13. LizW - I'm Laughing so hard tears are rolling

Every one of the pheasants was probably a Dem peasant to Cheney. :evilgrin:

[G_j]

14. huge big time tin foil stuff

I read somewhere an accusation by a "CIA mind-control victim" that he did that....

[robbob]

6. At first I read "peasants"

...and thought maybe FrankenCheney was over in Iraq...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. ........

:puke:

[G_j]

10. he gives me a serious case of the creeps n/t

[rumguy]

12. I'm from Mt and love to pheasant hunt, but this makes me sick

Any kind of phoney hunt like that is just sickening...

Cheney, YOU ARE a total piece of classless trash!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Wow! Ya mean over 8000 Iraqi's and 400 plus troops weren't enough?

[proud patriot]

16. 70 fucking birds were killed

:wow: that's a lot of birds

[funkyflathead]

18. Kerry only needed two for his dinner

Cheney's a pig. pure and simple.

[proud patriot]

24. So do the birds go to a homeless shelter to cookup?

cause there no way cheney's eating 70 friggin birds .

and why would the TV only report 9 WTF is up with that .

Who would of thought this would piss me off
so completely and thuroughly :mad:

[funkyflathead]

25. It's called tower shooting

Done a long time by rich folks of all stripes.

You sit in a blind and shoot the pheasants or chukar as they fly by.

Not really hunting actually.

[proud patriot]

29. Yes but what happened to the 70 dead birds belonging to Cheney ?

I mean could he have chucked them into the garbage
or is their a process of donation if cheney didn't
want his birds ?

[funkyflathead]

34. I don't know

Good question.

[RamboLiberal]

44. No birds for the hungry - vacuum packed for AF2

That's what local news reported. They released 500 pheasants, 417 sacrificed their lives for Cheney's group. BTW, an unknown number of mallard ducks were also killed.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

17. rich hunters

rich hunters must think that if the commoners usually take 3 birds in a hunt they should be entitled to 70.

[funkyflathead]

19. This was probably on a private perserve where you pay for your birds

Us commoners have to hunt POS public lands.

[RamboLiberal]

22. It's a private club - I believe Mellons instrumental in its founding

I don't know if they still do, but horsey set would have fox hunts there.

Here's some info I found on the net.

The Club is the heart and soul of what Pittsburghers often call "Mellon country" - the area about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh where many members of the Mellon family and their friends bought country retreats. Yes, that Mellon family, founders and financiers of many of America's great business enterprises - Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa, Koppers and General Motors to name just a few. Richard Beatty Mellon originally had a country retreat where he and his friends could visit for sport and relaxation. The group organized the Rolling Rock Club in 1917. The Clubhouse was completed in 1921 and today is surrounded by a golf course, tennis courts, a swimming pool and bridle paths all set in a 13,000 acre preserve. The Club even has its own fish hatchery and raises pheasants and wild ducks for shooting season.

http://www.chainepittsburgh.org/gala041998/description.html

[alfredo]

20. that ain't hunting, that is killing for killing's sake.

I guess killing Iraqi's isn't enough for him.

[cosmicdot]

21. i can imagine the banter as they pulled their trigger

prolly gave the fowl human names

I doubt if they were just talking about the weather

[thebigidea]

23. what a monster

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Sorry...but you make him look too artsy there

he almost looks good...can you fix that?

[SquireJons]

27. Good Company

About ten years ago, I visited a castle in the Chezch Republic that once belonged to the Arch Duke Ferdenand of Prussia - you know, the one who got things going in 1914? Well, he was an avid hunter, and there was practically no square inch of wall space that wasn't covered with dead animals, sometimes whole families of animals stuffed and mounted. There were thousands of dead creatures on the walls, and the tour guides, while calling Ferdenand somewhat of a psychopath, told us that once he and Kaiser William, his uncle, shot 1400 animals a piece in one afternoon. They didn't even stop to retrieve their trophies, having an army of minions retrieve the dead.

I guess that Chaney and the Kaiser and the Arch Duke have more than just world domination in common.

[oasis]

28. The privilege of killing. If I had his ticker, I'd spend my time in church

[cliss]

30. Cheney is actually out walking?

And holding a gun, no less? I'm surprised. This guy is usually hiding out in his bunker. He must have needed some cheap thrills.

He should take better care of himself. I read recently that he has a hole in his aorta. I think that's why he hides out so much.

[fishnfla]

31. he was just hunting in South Dakota!

my dad was there at the same time. Doesnt this guy have a job?

[Cloud]

32. That is excessive.

I have no problem with sportsmen. It is good to go out and hunt a deer or duck or whatever. These canned hunts are nothing but mindless killing.

Oh well, maybe seeing the 400-some dead birds will let them see in perspective how many men and women died in Iraq.

[Fescue4u]

33. I wish Gore had done this in Tenn.

Things might be a bit different now...

(edit to add: But canned hunts do seem a bit immature)

[theoceansnerves]

35. if he wants to stand still and have shit thrown at him...

couldn't this fucker just shoot skeet instead of slaughtering 70 birds? disgusting.

[kskiska]

36. If he likes killing so much

why did he have "other priorities" during Vietnam?

[tkmorris]

37. 'cause pheasant don't shoot back <nt>

[dbt]

38. What Chee-Knee did was NOT hunting

He blackens the name of all true hunters by his actions. There would have been WAY more sport in shooting clay targets. Arrogant POS!

:grr:
dbt

[Iverson]

39. no young girls' necks available?

I guess that campaign season demands some scaling back.

[Ksec]

40. Im a hunter and that disgusts me

Canned hunts are for people like Cheney. There is no sport to a canned hunt, its like live a living trap shoot. This doesnt surpise me with who it is and all. Evil people like BushCheney have no conscience

[bearfan454]

41. That is over the limit I believe

I hunt and at least I go by what the game law limits are.

[dusty64]

42. Sick.

I'll bet he seemed very happy when he was done, the fucker has no soul.

[SpiralHawk]

43. Ta Kesh Na Kay - An Honor Song for the Pheasants

When the Sun breaks the horizon of the Sangre de Christo Mountains this morning, I will lift my drum and sing an honor song for our relatives, the pheasants, that they might be accorded basic respect. Hetchata Ho!

Meegwich, SH