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Originally Posted by Crossnerd
Yeah except my horse tried to kill me and it was pretty much entirely my fault. I wasn't an experienced enough rider to be using my friend's horse. My friend's horse was a 6yo mustang that had previously been wild, caught, and broken. It was an unreliable and untrustworthy horse, and I used him anyway on a pitch black desert night for a ride with a different friend.
I spooked him when I tried to light a smoke while on his back and a spark fell from it and the horse saw it in its peripheral vision, started bucking, I couldn't regain control. He then took me for an absolutely panicked and blind 1.5 mile run over rocky ground back to his coral. I jumped off when he slowed enough for me to tuck and roll, and never got on another horse again.
Hifi didn't do anything wrong, from what I understand. It was the horses fault. I can't say the same :/
Ah, so the horse didn't try to kill you, it was just being a horse. Makes sense (and I knew what you meant), because horses are almost always mild-mannered. Just ridiculously skittish.
My friend had a horse that actually did try to hurt her, at least. She (the horse ldo) would rear up under overhanging branches, slam against treetrunks, and at least once jumped on its back and rolled. (She got out of the way.) I watched it a couple of times; scary stuff. She worked with that horse for three years, but eventually had to put her down.
Btw, I hope you realize the lesson of your horse story is that smoking is bad.
How's that going, btw?