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Iowa teen dies after being mistaken for squirrel during hunting trip, officials say
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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When I took my state's required hunter safety course, one of the instructors was an older dude with grey hair and a ponytail who wouldn't look out of place at a Dead & Company concert.
To point out the importance of wearing an orange hat during small game seasons, and also to "be sure of your target and what lies beyond it" he pointed out how much that grey hair and ponytail would look a lot like a squirrel if you only caught a glimpse of it through some brush.
Not saying that's exactly what happened here, the kid doesn't look like he was the grey ponytail type, but the article shook loose that memory in my head.
EDIT: not that I'm ungrateful, but somehow this is now my highest rated comment on Lemmy, and I'm just curious why this one in particular resonated to well.
I saw the poor kid’s hair in the thumbnail and was like “oh no.”
There are a LOT of brown squirrels in the Midwest.
I’d make sure to cut my hair AND wear a hat if I was going squirrel hunting and had hair like that.