A dentist from Janesville, Wisconsin, has been the target of harassing phone calls because he has the same name as the man who killed Cecil the Lion.

Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who killed a beloved lion in Zimbabwe early last month, is still on the run; which is really unfortunate for another man who just happens to share the same last name and is, ironically, also a dentist.

Mathew Palmer, from Janesville, has been receiving angry phone calls since last Tuesday; some from as far away as Florida. One caller even signed him up to get computer-automated messages every single hour that contain nothing but facts about cats.  How do you imagine that sounds?

Palmer says he's never been a hunter and he has had to change his number, but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean the harassment will stop. The good news is that despite the fact that he's had to take down all on-call numbers from his web and social media sites and a post on the practice's Facebook page; the phone calls haven't disrupted his practice. Palmer says that it's just made things more interesting at home.

This is why internet mob mentality is so out of control. People are rushing to judgement without really knowing anything. Hopefully by getting the word out there, this will clear things up for him and his life will go back to normal soon; until Christmas or his birthday, when he gets stuffed lions as gifts.

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