Cool, thanks!
On a different note, browsing the Google News (NOW! Out of Beta!) one of the funnier headlines was "Open Season On Cheney". I didn't read that article, but the next two were interesting.
How Did Dick Cheney Break the No.1 Rule of Hunting? which contained this excerpt:
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An eyewitness account reported by the Associated Press suggests that Cheney may have, in the heat of the moment, violated the No. 1 rule of hunting by failing to keep track of his hunting buddies at all times.
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Accidents can happen, of course, in a single careless moment. Quail, when you find them and they flush, don’t exactly follow gun-safety rules. They fly up suddenly and may go in any direction. And the first thing that happens to the hunter is the adrenaline rush. That’s why quail hunters wear orange, as Cheney's group reportedly were. And that’s why experts counsel the hunter not to sweep the shotgun around and fire if they don’t know what’s in the line of fire. Knowing what's behind the target is also a rule with which, one can bet, Cheney’s Secret Service detail would have wanted Whittington himself to be intimate.
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And then this one,
Cheney and shooting victim were hunting illegally, officials say with this quote:
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The other hunters present on Saturday included ranch manager Anne Armstrong; Whittington's wife, Merce; Ambassador Willeford; and her husband, George "Boots" Willeford. Anne Armstrong's two daughters, Katharine Armstrong and Serita Hixon, were there. So was Hixon's husband, Bob.
Whittington shot two birds, which he left to retrieve and put into a truck, Katharine Armstrong said.
As Whittington re-approached the group, he was walking through a low point in the land where they couldn't see him, Ms. Armstrong said.
"The cardinal rule is you stay on line," Katharine Armstrong said.
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I am not a hunter. I appeal to the hunters in the audience to educate me. I'm not looking for an indictment of Cheney, he's already done enough for me to make my own decisions. And I understand the responsibility for safety afield is a shared responsibility, not all one and none for the other. But I am looking for some clues here as to how this happened and how / who should have acted differently to avoid it.