WTF -- Texas Considers Allowing Blind to Hunt

i-2c0dbcc7ea7117998496f8d40b69864b-blind-hunter.jpgFrom the href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4401429.html">Houston
Chronicle: State Rep. Edmund Kuempel has authored a bill that
would allow legally blind people to go hunting.  They'd be
allowed to use laser sights, which are prohibited for fully-sighted
hunters.  They also would have to have somone who is not bling
go with them.  



At first I thought this was pretty nutty.  But then I
remembered Dick Cheney.


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Something is wrong with your spellcheck. I thought Texas was allowing blind people to hunt, not bling.

By Aerik Knapp-Loomis (not verified) on 15 Dec 2006 #permalink