A hunter in Norway aiming for a moose hit a man sitting on the toilet in a nearby cabin instead. According to local media, the bullet whizzed past the animal and struck the wooden wall of the cabin, hitting the man inside in the stomach earlier this week.
The man, in his 70s, was flown to a hospital southeast of Oslo with non-life-threatening injuries, Reuters reported. The moose escaped unscathed. Local police questioned the hunter, who said he didn't know there was a cabin nearby.
"The suspect is completely broken and desperate. It isn't an easy situation," police spokesman Paul Horne told the Norwegian newspaper VG.
Lead investigator Anders Stroemsaether told Norwegian broadcaster NRK the man's wife "does not hold a grudge" against the hunter and was "being taken care of by the police and her family."
The couple was closing up the family cabin for the winter when the shooting occurred.