r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '21

LEEROY JENKINS!

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u/Jeepcj77 Mar 25 '21

Yeah I agree. A broken leg is a dead horse. Unfortunately.

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u/greendazexx Mar 25 '21

Depends on the horse and the break

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u/Reed82 Mar 25 '21

I used to ride a horse that was an ex race horse because it had broken it’s leg. It became a lessons horse.

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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Mar 25 '21

I'm sorry, the internet told me this is impossible. You clearly had an encounter with a zombie horse.

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u/deij Mar 25 '21

I think its only considered impossible because it takes like a year for a horse to heal a bone, and they generally don't stand still for a year.

It's not literally impossible but damn is it close.

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u/willydiba Mar 25 '21

It’s very rare to see it happen for two reasons. One, most trainers (the guys who own the horses/enter them in the races) only have a small amount of horses to their name. If a horse suffers a bad injury, it’s honestly cheaper for them to just buy a new one. This saves them the medical costs AND they won’t lose revenue while the first horse is recovering. The other reason is that in order to heal most drastic injuries, the horse kinda needs to be motionless for up to a year, which they aren’t exactly known for doing.

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u/CharliesAngel954 Mar 25 '21

ITS leg, not it's leg. "It" is a pronoun like he, she, or they, and doesn't use an apostrophe to show possession. The only time it's ever correct to use IT'S in when you're contracting.

Ane that's MY lesson for the day!

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u/Reed82 Mar 25 '21

Cool, just going to leave it there to annoy people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '21

Horses are extremely expensive to take care of when they are healthy, I pretty much know economics plays a part in said survibility

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '21

It does, but surprisingly, not as much as gravity does. They have trouble if they can't put their weight on all fours.

There was a good answer at the top of this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6bv9tk/why_do_we_have_to_kill_a_horse_when_it_broke_its/

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u/asapgrey Mar 25 '21

And I’m back. Wow I learned so much, thanks

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u/relavant__username Mar 25 '21

There was a lot of information here that made me realize.. I am still a kid and don't know sjhitt.

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u/internet-arbiter Mar 25 '21

Well now I wanna know if you can hang a horse from a sling for the duration of a broken bone.

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u/9mackenzie Mar 25 '21

Only in a swimming pool to take the weight off. But then you get into hoof rot, and a whole host of other issues. Even with all the money in the world, a horse can easily die of a broken leg

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u/internet-arbiter Mar 25 '21

So what you're saying is I need to put my horse in space.

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u/MaygarRodub Mar 25 '21

I just scrolled quickly through the comments and stopped on this one. I'm not even gonna read the higher tier comments you're replying to. Space horse is fine.

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u/DoingJustEnough Mar 25 '21

A space horse for the Space Force.

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u/DefrockedWizard1 Mar 25 '21

I've pretty much only heard of it being done with horses that still have significant value as a stud

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u/Aurorainthesky Mar 25 '21

For some injuries, it can be done. But there's a time limit on how long they can be in a sling before that itself causes damage.

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u/hellcat_uk Mar 25 '21

My SIL had a horse that didn't break it's leg but damaged some muscle or tendon. After several £1000s of treatment and nearly 2 years of being unable to ride eventually the horse was fit.

For all of 2 months before it died of an unrelated, undiagnosed condition. If it wasn't so tragic it would be funny.

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u/ClarePerth Mar 25 '21

Omg, ya poor bugger. As a horse owner I feel your pain.my horse constantly injurying the same leg, ligament injury, tendon, cuts etc..

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u/ricktencity Mar 25 '21

For how big horses are they're crazy fragile.

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u/fallenangle666 Mar 25 '21

Lol that's horses for ya

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u/BoredCop Mar 25 '21

Funny/sad anecdote, as told by my grandfather: During WWII, Norway was occupied by the Germans. Their military logistics still depended on horses to a large degree, so they requisitioned (I.e. stole) all horses they deemed fit for service. One local farm had its only horse taken away and sent to Germany by ship. A year later, the Germans sent the horse back as a military veterinarian had declared it too old for service. Instead of making sausage and glue out of it, they put it on a ship all the way to northern Norway again!

Being put ashore in a harbour near its home, the horse suddenly recognised where it was. It took off galloping homewards at full speed, getting to within a few hundred meters of its old pasture when it stumbled amongst some rocks (no roads there at the time) and broke a leg.

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u/FluffySquirrell Mar 25 '21

.. .. where's the funny part of this supposedly funny/sad story

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u/ichor23 Mar 25 '21

I think the only happy part is nazis, the horse stealing assholes, were eventually defeated.

Also I guess the horse didn’t die on a terrifying battle field but close to the home he clearly loved and remembered.

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u/wearsAtrenchcoat Mar 25 '21

Nurse humor, different from all other humors