Friday, February 17, 2006

BREAKING NEWS: This Just In

Just saw this on TV and looked it up for myself.

From ebay:
***DICK CHENEY ACTUAL BIRDSHOT USED TO PUT DOWN HARRY**

Good Lord.

5 comments:

AlanDP said...

Whoever buys it isn't getting the real thing. I already got those pellets (and the empty shell) from the same guy who supplies me with samples of Martian DNA.

David Codrea said...

But Alan, I saw it on TV.

It MUST be true...

Jay said...

This violates at least 2 eBay policies:
1. If a seller cannot verify the authenticity of an item, the seller is not permitted to list it.

2. Items produced by or linked to disaterous or tragic events.

If you are believe the MSM, add this one:
Items that glorify or promote violent crime.

I complained to eBay. This is just too much. Hey, they took off that Cindy Sheehan speech, maybe they will take this off.

Anonymous said...

I did not belive it at first but, I know for a fact that this is the real thing. I contacted my local news and they said it was %100 true. When bidding toped $1000 I wasnt surprised.

David Codrea said...

Thing is, here's his explanation:

"Here is the story

"You are probly wondering how I obtained this rare item. Well my cousion lives about 1/4 mile away from where the incedent happend when the story broke in the local newspaper my cousion went to the ranch and found the shell. Please ask me if you have any quesions. THIS IS NO JOKE!!!

"The accident occurred Saturday at a ranch in south Texas where the vice president and several companions were hunting quail. It was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported locally by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.

"Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, said Sunday that Cheney was using a 28-guage shotgun and that Whittington was about 30 yards away when he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest."

He says he's selling birdshot, but then says he found a shell. Who knows how many shots Cheney fired that day--or if that shell was from that day or if his cousin even made it on to this private ranch--can just anyone wander onto such an exclusive range?

My take is most reporters are only going to look at this from the surface, so the fact that a TV broadcast picks it up isn't proof of anything. I don't see any way to verify he has th4e actual shell Cheney used to wound Whittington--bottom line, I'm VERY skeptical about this.