So, Cheney was shooting at.. DUSK.. sunset 4 mins after

[liveoaktx]

from Editor and Publisher
<snip>
Wait until more evidence seeps out. Here's a fresh tidbit: Late Tuesday, the Secret Service related that the shooting actually took place at 5:50 p.m. Saturday, 20 minutes later than previously stated--and therefore, right up against sunset, which came four minutes later.
</snip>

So he was out later than what he said.... on edit, looked up the Texas Parks and Wildlife regulations that show that it's legal to shoot one half hour after sunset http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/annual/hunt/general/

Still have to wonder why the discrepancy in the announced time versus the time the shooting actually took place.

[sakabatou]

1. And that's after the latest time one can shoot, right?

[berni_mccoy]

3. You can shoot one half-hour PAST sunset.

[sakabatou]

7. Cutting it close, huh

[WinkyDink]

2. What is this word you speak of, "law"?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Are secret service under orders to give full allegiance to the VP or

the American people?

[RebelOne]

5. According to Texas hunting rules and regulations:

Legal shooting hours for all game animals and nonmigratory game birds: from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

[aquart]

6. I thought sunset was 6:20?

My Large Brother-in-Law (he insists on this appelation) sent me this when we still believed shooting time was 5:30.

According to the calculator at
<http://www.csgnetwork.com/sunriseset.html>, sunset in Kenedy
County last Saturday was at 6:20pm local time, about 50 minutes
after reported time of the shooting. That's based on the
center point of the county at 26°55' N, 97°40' W, according to
<http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/KK/hck4.html>.

[TahitiNut]

16. Feb 11, 2006 - Sunrise: 7:05 AM, Sunset: 6:07 PM (in Houston)

:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

17. Feb 11, 2006 - Sunrise: 7:10 AM, Sunset: 6:18 PM (in Corpus Christi)

:shrug:

[progressivebydesign]

8. Then how could Armstrong see the shooting from a car, as she claimed?

Her story is extremely fishy. One minute she says that she saw the shooting from the car, then she says she thought Cheney had a heart attack, then we find out they shooting was pretty much after dusk... which, unless the car was right there with them, she couldn't have seen anything. What are they hiding?

[txindy]

19. She didn't see the shooting.

She said yesterday that she saw the security detail running and followed them, thinking Darth had had a heart attack. That completely contradicted what she'd said previously.

The 'eyewitness' didn't see a thing.

This whole story of Darth's reeks.

[mwb970]

9. He did everything wrong, I gather.

Shooting at dusk.
No dogs.
3-gun line.
Shooting low birds.
Losing track of companions.
Turning and firing.
Missing license stamp.
Probably drinking.

Add in that he was shooting tame, cage-raised quail with their wings disabled who had been put there for him to drive up to in his luxury car and kill.

Then you can add turning away police interrogators, having a nice dinner instead of staying at the hospital, letting his lobbyist friend "leak" the news to a small local paper, not notifying his "boss", not commenting publicly for days afterward...

And this is the "sure, steady hand" that was going to make having an inexperienced moron for president be OK?


Edit: additional complaints.

[dogday]

10. I live in Houston and it is pretty dark at 5:50

I am turning on the lights about that time every day. And he fired at this time? Cause I would not of chanced it?

[Squatch]

11. Shooting hours are from 1/2 hr before sunrise to 1/2 hr after sunset

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Though it was legal to hunt at that time....

There was a reason for the initial discrepancy.
When something happens like this I'm sure they bring in a "fixer" who surveys the situation and OKs all aspects of the release.

[Steve A Play]

13. Trying to minimize the three hour delay between the shooting

and the first reported admittance time to the hospital? :shrug:

[sinkingfeeling]

14. It's hard to tell the time when you've had 'two or three' beers.

[trof]

15. 2 or 3 beers? Hell, it was 50 minutes into Martini Time!

;-)

[leftchick]

18. do hunters normally hunt that late?

If so, and he had been drinking since lunch, he must have been hammered. No wonder he waited 14 hours. I wonder how hammered Whittington was?