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The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Talk about custom-tailored lessons for PMs, not to mention anyone else with functioning gray cells. News analysts and commentators will be having a field day with this story for months to come – and so will comedians.
On Feb. 13th, The New York Times headline read: “Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch.” Our very own vice president, Dick Cheney, accidentally “shot and wounded a prominent Austin, Tex., lawyer” Harry Whittington, 78, on a 50,000-acre Texas ranch. It seems the two men were hunting quail, and somehow instead of shooting a quail, our sharpshooter vice president instead shot his buddy, 30 yards away, with a 28-gauge shotgun.
Whittington was whisked by helicopter to ChristusSpohnMemorialHospital, where he was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit on Sunday, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
How could that happen? Eye witness Katharine Armstrong, who was with the hunting party at the time of the shooting, said that Cheney, 65, fired his gun not knowing that Whittington had approached the group, hitting him on his right side, on his cheek, neck and chest. Both men were appropriately dressed in caps and jackets of “hunter orange” because it’s easy to see at great distances.
A Chicago Sun-Times story described the event this way: "Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch where the shooting occurred, said it happened toward the …
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