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Child gets body slammed by elephant.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...048#post226979
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...539#post222834
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...095#post134306
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...726#post225923
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...254#post221895
That could have turned our really badly.
When I was a kid. Little, do not recall the age, maybe 5-7 range. We went to the zoo. They had a machine where you could by peanuts in the shell to give to the elephants. This was back in the 50's when there was not all the safety restrictions etc. I was giving elephant peanuts one at a time. Hold one out, he (maybe it was a she, I did not check) would grip it with the tip of his trunk, put it in his mouth, then reach back for another. I still had a few in my hand, and for some reason I closed my hand. Not sure what either of us was thinking, but he did not like when I closed my hand. He quickly gripped my wrist with his trunk. Not hard, did not hurt. But my dad responded by hitting the trunk. By that time I had opened my hand just from the surprise of being held by an elephant. The peanuts fell out on the ground. The elephant let go, but did not like my dad hitting him. He pushed my dad back, kind of like you or me swatting a flea. Then blew elephant snot all over my dads shirt. Then began picking up the spilled peanuts. We had so many laughs about that over the years.
Just FYI, DON'T EVER get an elephant to blow is nose on your shirt. Elephant snot REALLY STINKS. Especially on a hot day.
I see your elephant body slam and raise you a horse backwards body slam:
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It looks like she just avoided the Christopher Reeve...
Or maybe not, we didn't see her get up afterwards. A horse is a lot of animal to have fall on any part of your bodyQuote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
I thought he fell off doing a steeplechase type event and landed on his head. That's the way I heard it, but then again that was a while ago and I could just be full of "it".Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
A horse that rears over backwards, especially with a saddle, often breaks its back at the peak of the withers. Anyway, the animal is very dangerous and should never be ridden! Time to send it to the slaughter house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I think you are correct, when inthegroove commented, he was probably refereeing to her not landing on her head, My comment was aimed towards the weight of the horse crushing her and possibly breaking her back and probably some ribs as well, meaning she could have sustained permanent injuries.Quote:
Originally Posted by drivermark
stevechard_csi has a point that horse is a danger to himself and anyone who attempts ridding him.
Kid was inside the electric fence. Elephant could have done the kid serious harm. This was a warning. Stupid kid. Stupid parents maybe. Some kids have a knack for getting into trouble. Good thing it was a warning. Elephants have very strong trunks.
Mark
I had a friend of mine have this happen to her. Horse lover. Something spoked her horse and it went down on her like that. Broke her low back 2 levels, crusher her pelvis, and one femur. With modern medicine she can walk again but has constant pain and cannot ride any more. She says she misses it real bad.
That looks to me like a deliberate move by the horse...its ears are back and I don't see anything that could have spooked the horse. Regardless, if I were the owner of the horse, I could never trust the horse again, so it's either out to pasture or out to the glue factory. As an owner, that horse is a liability at this point, with this incident on its record.
I sure hope the poor woman survived her injuries.
Here's the story;
Pinned by Mbritton136
@mbr itton136
4 years ago
What you don't see in the video was the temper tantrum he pitched in the beginning, or the fact that his his buddy just finished their run and was heading back up to the barn, how windy it was, or the fact that the reigns on the left side were open. I clearly came up too high and tight on the right when closing that side off, but had he given into the circling that was meant to happen until he was ready to finally move forward into the ring then we could have avoided all that. Sorry to disappoint, still alive, no wheel chair, not even any broken bones, just some gnarly bruising 😂 And we still hit up the trails a few weeks later, there were no hard feelings, just some good lessons. 👍✌😜
Until the next time.
Good luck with a horse like that, and make sure your healthcare and liability insurance payments are made on time.
...and the horse thing happened 9 years ago...
For me, it just happened. I know what I would have done.
When I was about 16 a group of us went horseback riding, the horse I was on stopped when we were out of sight of the barn, it bucked a little, was trying to bite me, I got off and walked back to the barn. The guy was yelling at me for not knowing how to control the horse. When he drove me back he grabbed the reins and punched that horse in the nose. There now get back on and don't do that again. That horse ran full speed the whole course, I couldn't stop him. I felt like the Lone Ranger trying to catch a bad guy. I passed the group a couple of times. He finally slowed down when it was time for the whole group to head back to the barn. I told my friends thats enough for me. I'll stick to working on cars. LOL. I sure hope that lady is ok.
Looking at the horse footage very slowly, (after this silly lady pulled too tightly on the reigns and held the horse's head too high) she slipped out of the saddle to the left and appears to have had her right leg injured or at least trapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove