http://www.chicagonow.com/steve-dales-pet-world/2014/02/you-dont-look-like-a-deer-animal-news/
By Steve Dale, Tuesday at 8:53 am
Anyone can make a mistake. Clint Galentine was on a nature walk in Florida this past Sunday, February 23, when a hunter apparently mistook him for a deer, shooting him not once but twice with a high-powered rifle.
“I don’t know how he mistakenly thought we were animal[s],” Galentine, 37, told ABC Action News from his hospital bed. Galentine doesn’t even have antlers.
The alleged shooter, Michael Trott, 43, reportedly had all the required hunting and firearm licenses, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials. No charges have been filed against Trott, but the investigation is ongoing, as well as perhaps a suggested eye exam.
Galentine was hit twice in the left side and now has difficulty speaking. One bullet went through his left arm, breaking a bone and possibly causing permanent damage.
“I was in a little in shock,” said Galentine. “I looked around and I was bleeding.”
He says the hunter ran up to him and apologized. Not sure what that apology might have sounded like.
Galentine and his family are pushing for a change to the hunting area and location of hiking paths
You know what they say – “at least he hit something.”
Exposing the Big Game 
WTF?! A suggestion the hunter get an eye exam?! That’s it?! Another fuckwit hunter gets of scot-free.
They should have to pass a species identification exam as well. A human looks nothing like a deer. And besides, how does the shooter explain shooting at something without knowing where the bullet would hit? What about those mythical “clean kills” we keep hearing about? Lucky for the victim, the shooter didn’t make one this time…
*off*
Got it.
They need to start charging these trigger happy animal murderers, that way they’d think twice before shooting. Imagine all the animals these nutcases probably injure because they’re not taking ethical shots (how ever ethical shooting an animal just going about it’s day is)…
Absolutely!
They call these things “incidents” I don’t know of any case anywhere where the Fudd doesn’t walk away unscathed. There have been so many cases of stray bullets hitting toddlers, pregnant women, etc but hey, it was an unfortunate incident.
Right, why doesn’t the charge of manslaughter apply in these cases?
If that guy was walking down the street and shot, it would be a whole other matter, but because it was, as you say Jim, a “camo-clad psychopath” lurking in the woods, it’s just an accident or an “incident”.
I guess if I want to murder someone, I’ll buy myself a hunting rifle, a hunting license, buy some camo, lure my enemy into the woods, shoot him (or her) dead and then claim it was an accident.