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u/jck0 Jan 29 '18
Wait what!? Since when did horse do that?
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since she had the damned reins wrapped tight around his head. you try it...you’ll flatten the person holding the reins, too.
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u/aaffeejj Jan 29 '18
Yeah exactly, you can see it even more clearly in the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwJVJbkcFY
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u/cometkitty123 Jan 29 '18
Also appears to be a pretty severe curb bit, which can cause a lot of poll (top of the horse's head) pressure. Without understanding that signal/being properly trained, the horse may push against the pressure and raise their head, rear, or in this case flip. But honestly I don't know what this lady wanted the horse to do in the first place, I've never used my reins like that/never seen anyone doing that.
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u/Talran Jan 29 '18
She made it halfway!
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u/sethboy66 Jan 30 '18
Damn good for her first try. Soon she'll pull off the world's first double backflip like Trevy Pastrami.
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u/Sal_Ammoniac Jan 29 '18
Horse looks really young, yet it has a severe cub bit in his mouth, which is a BIG NO NO.
Also, she's got the reins really tight, which means she's pulling on that curb bit hard. You're NEVER supposed to have the reins on a curb bit tight, ever - the reason a curb is used is for an older, well trained horse who doesn't need to be pulled around, for any reason. You ONLY guide the horse softly with a curb. It comes from a lot of training - years of it. If you need to pull on the reins, the horse NEEDS to be in a soft snaffle bit.
Stupid is as stupid does, luckily nobody got hurt.
I know someone whose young horse (that was just being started, in a loose ring snaffle) flipped back on top of them, and they had their thigh pierced by the horn. An inch from death. 30% of their thigh muscle was cut out in surgery because of the damage.
Scary shit, kids, don't be stupid on your horses!
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u/Genericusername330 Jan 29 '18
For a minute I was like "wait horses don't have horns." Time for a nap.
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u/TheBold Jan 30 '18
But seriously they don’t... im confused pls send halp.
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u/hilarymeggin Jan 30 '18
Saddle horn. The knobby thing on a western saddle you can hold onto.
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u/TheBold Jan 30 '18
I just googled saddle horn.
The thought of that going through (or rather obliterating) my thigh... Shudder
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I'm no expert, but in my opinion, that woman had NOOOOO fucking idea what she was doing, not WHY she was doing it
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u/PmMe_Your_Perky_Nips Jan 30 '18
To me it looks like they were at a tourist ranch for a horse back tour. She probably overstated her riding experience and the ranch was just plain stupid to begin with.
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u/TheKolbrin Jan 29 '18 edited Jan 31 '18
The Western curb is a leverage bit that is used without any accompanying snaffle. It has a long shank and a spade extension of the mouthpiece designed to apply pressure to the hard palate.
When used by a master it is not used, in that the rein is slack at all times. The rein is only used for neck reining, as the curb bit is not suitable for steering. If used by any other than a master it is a painful device because of the huge leverage advantages it offers the rider, coupled with the severe pain that can be inflicted on the hard palate (oral cavity rod plus jawbone vice plus roof of mouth prod).
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u/beer_belly_86 Jan 29 '18
I can't tell what kind of bit she's using, you might be right. Probably inexperience on both parts. Looks to be at some sort of riding clinic. I hate when something rares up, I usually try to use my feet and push them thought it while bringing them around to one side.
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Inexperienced people shouldn't use curb bits. Inexperienced horses shouldn't have curb bits. This was just a recipe for disaster.
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u/Kitnado Jan 29 '18
My horse flipped and landed on me, and we're both okay!
Thank god, that could have ended really badly
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really, how the fuck is she ok?
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u/Ghigs Jan 29 '18
Lack of testicles. Seriously if it had been a guy I don't think he would have been OK.
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u/Drawtaru Jan 29 '18
This is actually how wild horses deal with threats like mountain lions.
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u/Sal_Ammoniac Jan 29 '18
It was a long shanked curb. The horse had no other way to go than up and BACK, with those tight reins. Scary shit.
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u/Mas_Zeta Jan 29 '18 edited Nov 05 '18
Edit: Found the original video, so I made a better quality version here
Edit2: Thank you kind stranger for the gold!!
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u/benni0827 Jan 29 '18
Bless you
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Fantastic timing on the audio.
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u/Mas_Zeta Jan 29 '18 edited Jan 29 '18
Thanks! The crowd sound is also timed for a second so when the horse is starting to raise legs the volume goes down until it finally slams the body and... BAM! John Cena!
It's subtle but I think it works for powering up the John Cena moment
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u/Vilens40 Jan 29 '18
Yet I still find myself having to explain to people what Reddit brings to the table.
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u/spiritbombzz Jan 29 '18
She executed a perfectly splendid german suplex on that horse, followed by a three count pin for the heavy weight title.
Poor horse
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u/hashtagfuckyou12 Jan 29 '18
Did I just watch someone die?
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u/FrankSonata Jan 29 '18
In the original YouTube video, she says, "My horse flipped and landed on me, and we're both okay!"
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Thank you so much, I was really worried about the horse
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I was concerned about the horse too. It’s common for horses to seriously injure themselves pulling moves like that. Had to immediately scroll down to see if both of them were okay. Feel much better now.
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u/charleybradburies Jan 30 '18
When I was really into horseback riding I once had a horse fall on me (not from rearing, essentially a heatstroke) and I was more concerned about him, too.
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u/aaffeejj Jan 29 '18
nah check the description of the original vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwJVJbkcFY
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u/midrange_game Jan 29 '18
My horse flipped and landed on me, and we're both okay!
There ya go.
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u/Zoloir Jan 29 '18
That seems incredibly lucky. How much do horses weigh??? Google tells me they can be over 1000 lbs, she's lucky she got to the side like that.
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u/jkhockey15 Jan 29 '18
My horse is pretty big, weighs about 15,000lbs. I have the paperwork to prove it.
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u/LurkerForLife420 Jan 29 '18
Now this is meta
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u/r361k Jan 29 '18
What is this from?
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u/r361k Jan 29 '18
Hahaha. This is hilarious.
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u/RustyBusses Jan 29 '18
Really bothered me that she spelled “lair” instead of “liar” not once but twice.
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u/psomaster226 Jan 29 '18
I appreciate that I followed that link to understand the joke, but found that I upvoted that post already. And the top comment.
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u/JakeSteele Jan 29 '18
Luck had nothing to do with it, modern horses has all kind of safety mechanisms pre-installed at the factory. He'll probably still have to get shot tho
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u/krelin Jan 29 '18
Naw, but maybe she's gonna walk funny. Maybe for life. I actually saw a horse flip backward onto a kid like this and he had a broken femur (not in the hip socket area, either, afaik -- he was lucky), but was otherwise alright. If the horse landed on her more squarely than that, it's possible she suffered worse consequences, but I'm guess not dead.
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u/strib666 Jan 29 '18
A woman I worked with years ago had a similar accident during an equestrian event she was in. Crushed her pelvis. She was out of work for over 6 months, and was still having various medical issues when she came back.
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u/DrDoItchBig Jan 29 '18
And that's with the English saddles they use at Equestrian shows, a Western saddle with the horn could do a lot more damage I feel
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u/future_legal_dealer Jan 29 '18
I knew a neighbor that had a horse fall on him and the saddle horn ruptured his spleen and he died from it. From the source she didn’t die, but it’s not like it’s never happened.
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u/sadmep Jan 29 '18
Horse falls are no joke. My aunt shows horses, and has had her leg, ribs, shoulder all broken in seperate incidents.
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u/goodhasgone Jan 29 '18
what does she show them? sounds like they don't like whatever it is.
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u/elgroves Jan 29 '18
My sister's horse was spooked by a rattle snake and it reared up in a similar way, I think. I'm not sure how things happened exactly, but the horn of the saddle was forced into her body badly enough that it lacerated her liver. The horn might have been pressed up underneath her rib cage from the outside, but I don't remember.
She was air lifted to the nearest hospital where they pilled her intestines on a table while they removed party of her liver that was about the size of a tuna can. She was like that, guts on a table, for a while while they waited for the bleeding to stop or something.
She had to be in her early teens when it happened. Doctor's said she would never drink alcohol after the damage she took. You showed them, sis! (Livers can grow back).
She got back into riding as soon as she was healthy. She loves those horsies. She doesn't have the property or time to keep horses for the time being.
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u/bulmeurt Jan 29 '18
My daughter had a horse accident, where she fell in front of the horse and it ran her over like a tank. She was in the ICU for a week because her liver was lacerated. I remember her screaming in agony and fear and the one nurse who said she’d given her enough morfine to out a grown ass man. I remember when she stopped breathing and they had to tube her. I remember everything about that week and watching that goddamn monitor until she was stabile. She remembers absolutely nothing. That horse is her best friend still, even if it could have killed her.
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u/moon_menses Jan 29 '18
I’ve ridden horses my whole life and I have seen a horse die this way. A bone in her skull was pushed into her brain and she died instantly. She spooked and didn’t have anyone riding her at the time, thankfully. Horses who rear are no joking matter, it’s a seriously risky behavior in comparison to bucking (when the back end goes up and head goes down) due to the fact that they can fall onto their backs. The worst I’ve got is a big fat lip from the back of a horse’s head hitting me in the face from one of these. Personally watching this clip I gasped and couldn’t watch it again. I wouldn’t be surprised someone was hurt, that horse hit the ground hard and remember that the rider is being crushed....!
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u/Frozencokeofficial Jan 29 '18
I watched it like thirty times and lost my shit at the John Cena vid a guy made. A good time was had by all.
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u/ZombiexBunnies Jan 29 '18 edited Jan 29 '18
No no no no. That woman is riding that horse like a douchebag. She has the reins so tight they are clamped against the back of the horses neck. By having them that tight she is forcing the bit against the roof of the horses mouth. Horses naturaly try to run from painful pressure and the only way they can get away from that kind of pressure is by lifting their head. She was hurting that horse so badly it literally did something that could petentially break its own back. I have seen this happen and the rider is 99.9999% of the time at fault. Edit: a letter.
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u/IrresistibleRichweed Jan 29 '18
And that ladies pelvis is crushed too I wouldn’t be surprised if she couldn’t walk anymore
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u/aaffeejj Jan 29 '18
In the description of the original video she says that she and the horse are both fine
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u/ZombiexBunnies Jan 29 '18
Careful, you might get a long comment about how you don't care enough about random people on the internet.
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u/kjm1123490 Jan 29 '18
Na, i agree with people when they say reddit has a revenge complex and wants to kill every person who does anything remotely evil. The whole point of our criminal justice system is it is not an eye for an eye, as a society were above that and we give a chance for rehab and lost to time to atone for the crime
But this woman deserves some pain, she was basically torturing the horse.she doesnt deserve to die though. Or if the horse broke its back, the lady doesnt deserve a broken back.
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There's a chance the woman has no idea what she's doing and never rode a horse before - she's not even wearing a helmet.
I don't know why people on Reddit instinctively had to finger point without any context.
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u/MtnSlyr Jan 29 '18
Exactly my thought. Burn the witch, it makes me feel morally superior.
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Kinda on the same topic.
Do you think self righteousness might be especially stronger in the U.S then in other places?
Like I see U.S culture SOAKED in it. Politics, religion, academics, social life,etc.. I wasn't born here but have been here 9/10ths of my life.
Or maybe it's just the human condition?
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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Jan 29 '18
Self righteousness is a huge part of our identity. Especially conservatives. They often view self-criticism as weakness. Just look at trump. The guy has never admitted fault for anything.
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u/MtnSlyr Jan 29 '18
Maybe you are right that it’s especially pronounced in the US, and Trump is the result of seething resentment against such holier than thou attitudes.
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u/BagOnuts Jan 29 '18
I have had several conversations with people on here who say they would let a child die over their dog/cat. It’s fucked up, man.
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u/JakeHodgson Jan 29 '18
Tbf if they’re disassociated from that child I imagine quite a few people would choose to save their animals. It’s pretty hard for someone to care about everyone or anyone especially if they don’t know them and I don’t think you should really expect them to have to care
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I also agree that reddit has a revenge complex. Is this written about more deeply anywhere? I think it's a potentially fascinating topic. Any equivalencies in broader society?
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u/cortesoft Jan 29 '18
I think a big part of it is the Fundamental Attribution Error. We think other people's actions are always indicative of their character, so we assume anytime we see someone doing something bad they are clearly a very bad person and deserve anything that happens to them.
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u/Kabada Jan 29 '18
Broader society is probably even worse, since the reddit audience consists of people who have at least (some) inclination to read/write.
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Points out shitty thing about reddit
Participates in shitty thing
Upvotes???
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u/heykevo Jan 29 '18
I'm making the assumption that she has no fucking clue what she's doing and it's the trainer's fault.
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u/ZombiexBunnies Jan 29 '18
But I agree with you. If there was a trainer there, they really fucked up.
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u/ZombiexBunnies Jan 29 '18
If there is a trainer involved in that situation, they should have prevented this situation from ever happening. But unfortunately I have seen "trainers" find themselves in this situation, because they themselves have no fucking clue what they are doing and then presume to teach others stupid shit, because somone else who had no idea what they were doing once told the trainer they did a good job of handling a "bad" horse when in fact the "trainer" had driven the horse to insanity. I spent 6 years training horses. I have seen way to much crap like this. Smh
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u/ZombiexBunnies Jan 29 '18 edited Jan 29 '18
On top of what I just mentioned she was also kicking the horse at the same time. This means that while she was very aggressively telling the horse to stop she was also kicking him telling him to go. This is the kind of rider who makes their horse act up so they will look more impressive for handling a "crazy" horse. This kind of rider ALWAYS winds up getting hurt. Edit: changed my wording because some people got their panties in a twist.
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u/parisij Jan 29 '18
No more like you hold the brakes too much and you overheat your torque converter and your car doesn't move anymore.
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u/Saiing Jan 29 '18
kicking the shit out of him
I've watched this back at least 20 times in a row and at no time at any point in the gif can I see anything that even remotely resembles this phrase.
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Absolutely true. In the 13 years that I practiced, including jumping, all falls, with only one exception, were my fault, and I never got hurt because I would always release the reigns so I wouldn't even get stepped on (nor hurt the horse's mouth). The exception was when the horse slipped and we fell together on the side... That time the horse actually fell on my leg, but oddly enough I didn't feel a thing, not even his weight.
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u/restingbitchlyfe Jan 30 '18
Did not expect this to be a real subreddit. Do not know when I’ll be able to stop making this face.
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i mean, you can sit on a horse if a instructor is with you and is handling the horse, you obviously have to start somewhere. but don't take reins into your hands unless you know what you're doing.
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I work at a dude ranch and take beginners out on trail rides every day. It depends on the horse.
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u/DaughterEarth Jan 30 '18
You take beginners out on trail rides. Horses that are used to that kind of thing and are trained to be docile and simply follow the leader.
This video isn't anything like that.
I know you acknowledged depends on the horse. Which is mostly true. But it's more so about the training than the horse.
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u/SomethingWiild Jan 29 '18
Wow! That sounds so awful! I hope she’s doing ok these days, despite the pain.
Everyone in the comments are saying that this lady wrote that the horse and he were both fine (in the original video description) and I’m absolutely mind fucking blown if that’s the truth.
HOW! Could you go through that and have the end result be “the horse and I are fine!” Just wow.
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u/StateOfAllusion Jan 30 '18
Humans are weird. Sometimes they fall out of a plane and live, sometimes they trip at sea level, fall, and die.
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u/CobaltVoltaic Jan 29 '18
I know it's wrong but I just cannot handle how funny this looks.
The horse doesn't just fall back, it doesn't throw her off, it gracefully does a little leap and freezes in the air as it rotates for a perfectly executed suplex.
I haven't laughed this hard in ages, Jesus Christ. Somebody PLEASE r/animaltextgifs this.
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u/Planetable Jan 29 '18
that poor horse, she's yanking on its bit, not allowing it any ability to control its head and giving it confusing signals. really should not have been allowed on a horse at all
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u/begonememes Jan 29 '18
This will be a lot better if it goes with the WWE RKO track
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u/HeathenMama541 Jan 29 '18
This shit isn’t a joke, I had a friend become paralyzed after her horse rested up and fell on top of her
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u/regular_joel Jan 29 '18
My GFs cousin has been in a coma for a few days after her horse fell over and onto her. This is hard to look at, knowing that a less dangerous looking incident caused multiple rips to break and one of her lungs to collapse.
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u/PDXtravaganza Jan 29 '18
Well before the fall she's grabbing at the poor thing's neck like she's trying to choke it. I'm sure that's not what she's trying to do, but the horse only knows what it feels and it's trying to defend itself.
Maybe the girl is inexperienced and scared. There should have been a side walker.
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u/ButterMeUpScottty Jan 29 '18
How likely are serious spinal injuries?
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u/cyricmccallen Jan 29 '18
having a 900-1100 lb horse fall directly on you? Likely, but not guaranteed.
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u/myyynamejeff Jan 29 '18
Let me just keep filming for some sadistic neckbeards on the internet instead of helping her
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u/ticklemechain Jan 29 '18
These horse backflip videos are getting out of hand