OK...it's not funny anymore

Not that it ever truly was funny, but it now sounds like the "pellet gun" incident is way more serious that we were first led to believe.

Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.

Peter Banko, the hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Harry Whittington had the heart attack early Tuesday while being evaluated.

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