May 2, 2012
From WMTW.com
Man recovering after being shot in the eye while turkey hunting
STANDISH, Maine - Joseph Kennedy has a pretty good attitude
about a turkey hunting accident that was just inches away from
costing him his eyesight.
"The only turkey that got shot was
me," the 61-year-old jokes from inside his Standish home where he's
recovering from being shot in his left eye.
Kennedy and his
29-year-old son Kevin were hunting turkeys in Windham on Monday
morning when the accident happened.
The two split up to go
after different flocks of turkeys and estimate they were about 60
yards apart when Kevin unknowingly fired toward his father.
A piece of bird shot hit Joseph Kennedy's left eye.
The
Kennedys are avid hunters and say they've never had anything like
this happen before.
They insist Monday's incident was just
an accident.
Ironically, he has been mostly blind in that
eye since birth.
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