From KARE 11 website: http://www.kare11.com/news/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=55049
Not one to “look” for controversy amidst tragedy……….but does the tale end of this story about the hunter shot 50 miles north of Two Harbors sound a little “too well accepted?” Either poor journalism or some VERY relaxed survivors of the deceased!
Mr. Positive? Is that really you, or has someone hijacked your log-on?
There are two tragedies in this one! The obvious one and then either the writer who is in the wrong business or the, don’t seem to care, relative??? Hard to say which? Wait a minute, that’s three! Geez 
Ive never been able to understand how someone accidently shoots someone else by thinking they are a deer… either you have identified your target… or you hold your fire… its that simple…. what… do these people also shoot horses, cows, dogs, squirrels, and anything else that moves and say *oops*? I simply refuse to imagine that they are anything but sloppy and careless if they shoot ANYTHING other than what they are hunting….. and if I know someone I hunt with is like that, I dont hunt with them anymore…. sorry for the soapbox… but this is simply wrong….. tragic sure….. but horribly wrong that someone is “mistaken” for a deer….. *sheese*……
It’s a weird deal for sure. This topic has actually been studied (in-depth 
) — The human mind will, in certain high excitement situations, see exactly what they WANT to see. Real Deal, these people actually SEE a deer when it’s their twin brother walking down a path. 
Way too many documented instances to shrug it off.
On the reported media comment. The media quotes exact wordage (or not)…..sometimes you say stuff in mourning that is best left un-quoted.
Jon J.
*wow*…. sort of a hallucination… !? I wonder if everyone is susceptable or just certain ones… sounds like they have hypnotized themselves or something… just cant imagine it…. Ive never experienced anything like it… except once or twice when I wanted a ‘eye to be 15 inches!… 
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It’s a weird deal for sure. This topic has actually been studied (in-depth ) — The human mind will, in certain high excitement situations, see exactly what they WANT to see. Real Deal, these people actually SEE a deer when it’s their twin brother walking down a path. Way too many documented instances to shrug it off.
We know that intense emotion can interfere with perception and can lead to cognitive distortion as well, so I suppose this is possible. This is very, very sad and a bit scary in this case. It leaves me with the thought that anyone hunting or carrying a gun should be educated on this matter.
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Mr. Positive? Is that really you, or has someone hijacked your log-on?
Yep………..it’s really me…………..but I too, dubbed or undubbed, get rubbed the wrong way from time to time and have to vent just a bit.
I wanted to say exactly what Rivereyes said but thought I didn’t need to go there. Most of us feel that way naturally.
But when someone says, (paraphrased) “It’s happens to someone every year. This time it just happens to be us”………I’ve got an issue with that.
I lost my wife to the thieving arms of another man in Feb. 2002…………..and not once have I woke up since that beginning and said, “It happens to 52% of all Americans. I guess it was just my turn.” The quote written seems so nonchalant.
I see a broken value system or some incredibly poor journalism. If the person meant different, it shouldn’t have been quoted.
As far as anything “positively” applied here, I’ve only raised the question, not condemned anyone.
It does seem a little flippant to just say that it was us this time. I know when I’ve lost people near and dear to me, it’s difficult to think of the best way to describe your emotions. I also think it’s more difficult to describe how you feel if you’re not very close to a relative. I remember going to a cousin’s funeral and not really knowing how I felt about it, because I didn’t know him that well. I would have used different sentiments to describe those feelings then I did when my father passed away. So, it could easily be a case where the cousin didn’t know this person very well, or just bad journalism.
Steve 
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