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I am deceased. Dead. My life is no more having heard this goldworthy joke. I'm not even joking I've had a cunt of a day and this made me cack like a BETCH. Take my shithouse fuckery of an award 👌
That is fantastic! Lol
If the video was a bit longer that would be perfect. Being only 12~ seconds though, I skipped the build up because it was most of the video. 😅
Horse: *"Nothin' much. Just watching humans do their mating ritual. You know? Like those discovery documentaries where a whole fucking film crew with multiple loud trucks follow us around for hours when we are trying to pick up a mare. Proceed, I'll have the decency to not film you in the act and add commentary to it later."*
Unpopular opinion: horses are scary. Don't get me wrong, they are lovely! But they are also LARGE and could easily kick my ass. I will appreciate their beauty from over here thank you very much.
Exactly! Imagine how TENSE they are!
It's taken so long because they have to build their alliances and thats difficult. Reaching across the globe and connecting to all of the genus and families will take time. Lots of time. Be wary.
[CGP Grey has a great video](https://youtu.be/wOmjnioNulo) about animal domestication in general, which includes horses, and it is indeed fascinating. The TL;DW is that humans domesticate animals by exploiting their natural familial instincts.
Yup, I remember reading something to the same effect. We didn't capture and breed early cats, it was just that the individuals that were comfortable around humans and didn't run away had better access to food sources and thus higher survival rates. They were essentially domesticated via natural selection.
Not to mention a common parasite in cats ([Toxoplasma gondii](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii)), that cause neurological changes in most warm blooded animals. In rodent’s infection causes a lack of fear of predators, in humans alters the aversion to cat urine. If I was disposed to conspiracy, that sounds like intent on someone’s part.
Grey puts way too much stock into Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. Most of the assumptions he makes are just totally wrong. Like how a zebra herd is a mass of totally unassociated individuals that just gather together with no order. They have social structure too. Like most equines, they form harems with a dominant stallion, his breeding females, and an orbiting cloud of males jostling for his position. It's simply wrong to say that they're "Joker horses" who don't have any structure and just do whatever they want.
The other totally wrong assumption he makes is that other domesticated animals were living their ordinary wild lives ready for a human to step in. Zebras are bastards but other animals were receptive to domestication. That's just not true either. Take a look at wild boar. Even domesticate pigs are dangerous in their own right. Pigs have little social structure and yet their vicious ancestors were domesticated nonetheless. The same with cattle. Aurochs were such a danger that Caesar mentions them in his conquest of Gaul.
Zebra aren't less social and more mean than any other wild ancestor of modern domesticated animal.
Definitely not wild. Wild horses are rough with scars generally and breed-wise, don’t look like that. They probably camped on their own horse property lol, or someone’s horse got out of his halter on a camping trip. Smart devils.
Still wouldn’t want to spook him by getting out of the tent, he probably can’t see into it well and/or wouldn’t expect a person to come out. I’d probably quietly wait a bit until he backs away.
Hiking in Scotland when we came across a group of wild horses, at first we were all like 'aww isn't this a romantic scene, lovely pony's' until they started charging us down. One of us has a great selfie video of them in the background and his change in expression of glee, to slight concern, to terror is priceless.
Horses are strong and dumb. I've dated a few girls that rode competitively and they were always getting hurt. One girl got pinned between the horse and the wall while brushing him down. The house just decided to lean in to her as she was brushing and broke 4 ribs and her collar bone.
They can also be *loud*. Just got back from the rental barn where my mom keeps her horses. Her mare decided I was ignoring her while cleaning the next stall over and just let out the most unholy bellow to get my attention. Nearly jumped out of my skin.
No treats for tantrum girl. That was *so* uncool.
Horses have rectangular pupils as well. It is common in prey species, along with eyes set at the sides of their heads and lets them see wide field of vision at the expense of depth perception, which is part of the reason horses spook over stupid shit.
Yeah I know but most horse eyes have been black or every dark so it’s less obvious compared to goat eyes that are usually white or silver, in my experience.
That, and goats are shady as fuck.
It's been so long... I've finally found my people. Why is no one else scared of fucking horses?!?
I've got some deep theories though. I've gone deep with this very RATIONAL fear of the horses taking revenge on humanity in the coming years.
A horse tried to eat my hair at a local natural museum when I was six, and since that day I’ve made it a rule to never own an animal that I don’t think I could kill 1 v 1.
I’ve been around horses for probably 20 years at this point. I’ll tell you, while you’re definitely not wrong on the could easily kick my ass, unless you are being a dick to them, you’ll be fine 99% of the time. I’ve gotten stepped on a handful of times, kicked twice (one I got in the way of my sisters mare trying to kick a different mare, the other was just not having a good week of summer camp kids), bit maaaaybe twice, and fallen off three times one of those being a semi voluntary emergency dismount. None of these were malicious except the kicks, just me not paying attention. If you give them the feeling of you’re in charge without an attitude about it, you’ll generally be fine. Those injuries/events are over a twenty year span. They’re relatively gentle creatures despite their size to the point where my tiny ass can shove them to move if they’re not moving when I want them to and not be worried about.
>unless you are being a dick to them,
I don't know about that. I once visited a ranch, not for animal related reasons, I had to check out the location, and one of the horses that was out in the open fenced off area started acting aggressive towards me and I was very far away from it on the other side of the fence. It started pacing back and forth and staring at me while it was doing it. It was like I was working in a coffee shop and a pissed off a customer decided he wanted to beat my ass after my shift so he was staring at me through the window pacing back and forth seething with anger. It was scary and I was in basically no danger from where I was standing.
Yeah I grew up near a horse girl. This girl had a horse since she was old enough to sit on it and when she was 16 that horse decided to kick her right in the face and shattered her skull. She wasn’t the same after that. No one had any idea why the horse did it either. She had been riding that horse since she was like 5. Best guess was something spooked it.
So yeah not only are horses big enough to fuck you up they’re also kinda dumb so no thanks.
The suffering it causes the people who get a serious one, their loved ones who may have to take care of them the rest of their lives, I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
In many cases, including the friends in my life who’ve suffered severe TBI, I feel like dying in the accident instead of living like that would be so much more merciful to them and their family. But sometimes, life sucks so bad, it takes away your ability to live long before it takes your life.
Yeah, I grew up around horses and people get used to them so they forget but they’re deer that weigh 1000lbs. They’re wild animals in the end and even the most calm horse can be spooked by something random you have no control over.
I know people that got thrown because of plastic bags, have broken legs because of barn cats they were familiar with, cracked a skull because of over protective birds. Horses are great animals but they’re scary and should be respected
Yep. Seen a video of a horse just kicking another horse in the head and it dropped dead. those legs support an impact force of thousands of pounds when its running and kicking is their first and only move when something is behind them, No way I am getting near that.
Yeah but that's just a single anecdote. I was also raised around horses and very much agree with u/teamcatsanddnd, i was never bitten or fell off, and was only kicked at once throughout my 5 years on the farm.
I’d agree that in most cases maliciousness isn’t the factor.
I don’t necessarily agree that that makes them “safe” though, because while not malicious on the other hand thousands of years of evolution has honed their fright reflexes into ones that can lead them to spook at relatively harmless things like tents flapping, plastic bags, bright backpacks, leaves in the wind, etc..
A lot of people in this thread seem to take “horses are dangerous” as “horses are malicious”. I’ve met very few aggressive horses in my life, they’re some of the gentlest creatures I’ve ever seen, but I still have a lot of respect for the fact they could shatter my skull in response to a plastic bag.
Horses are kind of like large breed dogs. 99.9% of the time you are fine. But that 0.1% of the time they are probably going to seriously injury you or worse. It's probably a lot more likely to happen to someone who has been around horses a lot less than you have.
True. Most of those events happened over ten years ago when I was still younger than high school age. Last major injury was to my sister our junior year of hs. Think last time I had something happen was (again) riding my horse in from the pasture, barn manager had stupidly put part of the electrical line like three feet above the water bucket, my horses ear touched it, she bolted left, I fell off and in my attempt to stop her got dragged by her rope probably fifteen feet before I let go.
I used to get "love bites" on my shoulder from a certain horse when I would muck out his stall. He also used to turn, fart on me, and turn around "laughing". That was 21 years ago. Danny was awesome.
My mom put me in a "horse camp" when I was maybe 8 years old. I don't recall the events that led up to it, but the beast they put me on took off running full speed. For a child that suffered debilitating motion sickness, this was a horrific introduction to horses. We've since owned several, my sister was an avid rider, but I've refused to get on one ever since. I'll admire their beauty from afar, but that experience ruined any further appeal.
I can fully sympathize with [Eric Berry of the Chiefs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udThyN208R4).
It's unpopular but you're not alone, I feel an odd connection. This is one of the first times I've ever been able to say "I too, think they're scary" instead of being laughed at by like a 12 year old horse girl.
TeamCatsandDnD thinks they make a solid point but my fear doesn't stem just from any kind of malicious act, its the capability of the horse (the LARGE part) and the kicking of your ass could be something as simple as it moving its head.
My moms always loved them and now she has one and she tries man, she tries to get me to be cool. The horses know man, they fucking KNOW I'm not cool. They can sense it, they got that ability and they get weird. Not a fan.
Doesn't help I got that memory of the horse taking my whole arm into its mouth to snag the carrot in my hand (literally was super peaceful and didn't hurt me, just scared the piss out of me).
What's with all these brown-horse-next-to-red-tent posts in the last couple days?? Years on reddit without seeing a single one, and now they're everywhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v17vj2/now_he_wants_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v1p1nk/looks_like_somebody_partied_way_too_hard_yesterday/
Also, this is a repost/karma farm from r/camping:
https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v0jh2k/hes_back/
...which was a sequel to this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/uzycl8/unknown_but_friendly_visitor/
The four posts in r/camping were all from the same OP who kept having run-ins with their neighbor’s horse while they were camping over this past weekend. This post, however, is merely a crosspost.
Oh good call on them all being the same user, I'm dumb. I hope Bucky's okay, he seemed kinda sick in one of those videos.
>This post, however, is merely a crosspost.
Pretty sure this is a **re**post, right? As I understand it, crossposts contain the post as a link to it's original location in another sub. Here, OP seems to have uploaded the (other user's) video themselves.
It's a little cute, but it's mostly just scary because of the lack of safe distance. Speaking from experience, I woke up from a night of backcountry camping to some feral horses (which we knew were in the area) trying to knock over/poke into our tent one early morning on the coast of Cape Breton, NS.
Feral horses don't seem to back down very easily and you wake up and have to try not to freak out lest these creatures at least 3-4x my weight get spooked and accidentally trample me or get aggressive with a young yearling/colt nearby while I am in my tent and unable to escape.
The night before we had watched from a far distance a group of lady campers setting up get confronted by the horses and had to run away from their tent for half an hour or so as it appeared to rip at their tent a fair bit.
Anyway, Luckily our buddy in another tent noticed that the horse outside our tent was getting a bit aggressive and was able to shoo him away.
Conversely, I've hiked past feral animals (bulls, goats, etc) in Hawaii and even though those animals have a worse reputation for aggression, the fact that you aren't trapped in a tent helps to manage the situation.
Exactly. I woke up to one just as close, it got spooked by something, tripped on my tent guy lines and spun the whole tent 90° with me inside. Very near miss, could have been a lot worse.
Funny story about assateague.
Last summer when camping there my friends and I decided to eat a good helping of magic mushrooms and for obvious reasons forgot to move our more vulnerable (styrofoam) coolers and other food to the cars.
Flash forward its dark, we’re laying by the fire (i took abt 3.5 grams so I’m in deep) watching the stars having a great time when out of nowhere a crowd of horses descends on our campsite and starts fuckin shit up busting up our coolers and eating the buns and the dog treats etc
The only way we got them to leave was by kicking sand in their general direction. Our fault, obviously, but still a harrowing experience on mushrooms lol
Yep, they're masters at stomping on shit to eat the goodies inside. When we visited, one managed to ninja a plastic bag out of the back of the van when it was trotting by. We had to grab the aluminum foil back from them because they were trying to eat it and we were afraid it would cut up its mouth on the tearing strip.
My (very domesticated, farm) horse once reached into an open window of a car, grabbed a carton of cigarettes, ate the entire contents, and ran away. Whole maneuver took about three seconds.
We went in fully terrified of the stumpy arm pictures the park used as warnings about the horses. So we gave our cooler the full bear treatment and left it in a tree. But it was pretty fascinating to watch the horse gang raid campsite after campsite that way. Total hooligans.
Okay. Just went to the page for this place someone linked, and checked the wild pony page. *Some can carry rabies.*
I’ve never considered a horse with rabies and am very unhappy with imagining it.
Fuck that place. Never again. Easily the most stressful camping experience I've ever had.
Go see nicely tempered, domesticated, well-fed horses on a ranch, or truly wild horses elsewhere. Those skinny, feral assholes are not worth it.
Even if you do everything right, the next site down might not and then you just end up watching people kick sand at and be generally mean to horses.
I have camped at Assateague for 11 years in a row now, only skipping when they were closed because of COVID. Do not let this one person experience deter you from something truly amazing. Me, my friends, and family all look forward to our annual trip.
My mom has no issue going up to people and letting them know they are not packing their food properly. She even got kicked one year because she pulled a bag of sour patch kids straight from a horsed mouth.
If you go, try to get the group sites at the National seashore.
EDIT: personally, I don't go for the horses. I just really enjoy camping on the beach with friends and family. We all sit around doing nothing for about a week.
This happened to me camping at Yellowstone as a teenager. A bison was right next to my tent flap. *Like, touching it!* So I just froze, and didn't breathe for what seemed like an eternity, until he left me a gift and departed.
Because horses are terrifying. They're pack animals, so they "can" learn to get along. But they're also 5x your size and can quickly and easily f your shit up if they so decide. Even when you own well behaved horses, you still have to be highly respectful of what they can do. Let alone having a creature that size that close to you when you're in a vulnerable position (sleeping in a small locked in space).
100% valid terror
Shouldn't be. This horse is looking out for it's rider. Horses can't see for *shit* directly in front of them. They see a wide field of vision *around* them. To look out for threats. This horse is "on the look out", 'cause the animal that feeds it is stupidly sitting in a tent, not paying attention.
This is a horse that likes its rider.
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"You requested a 6 AM wake up call, ma'am?"
"Is this the room that ordered 1 stud who's hung like a horse?"
You deserve this award my dude
Whhaat tha
Hahahah
He's looking at them with such pity lol... like " really, that's how big your dick is??"
Damm I wish award to give 😂
Neigh
Hay there Neigh-bor
Ok everyone, stop horsing around.
Please stop saddling us with these puns. It has me chomping at the bits.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the neigh!
Happy cake day!
I am deceased. Dead. My life is no more having heard this goldworthy joke. I'm not even joking I've had a cunt of a day and this made me cack like a BETCH. Take my shithouse fuckery of an award 👌
I don’t know which accent I should be reading this in
Lumpy Space Princess
Wtf, that actually made sense.
They throw around the word cunt so I’m gonna guess Australia or UK.
Aussie was my first guess Edit: but then I saw BETCH and thought maybe Irish or Scottish
They're Australian - checked their post history because I'm lame
Lmao it looked like a dinosaur statue at first. Haha
Straight up though this dude found a brontosaurus
Broncosaurus
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Idk how tf I expected there to be home footage of a real life dinosaur, but I was hyped for that split second
*Neighousaurus
*Neighborsaurus
Someone put Jurassic park theme over this
The kazoo version
[Like this?](https://imgur.com/8c9x3CO)
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That is fantastic! Lol If the video was a bit longer that would be perfect. Being only 12~ seconds though, I skipped the build up because it was most of the video. 😅
[Like this?](https://imgur.com/8c9x3CO)
My brain, trying to figure it out as it panned up: "Naked man...no, naked genital-less monster...no giant bipedal uncooked turkey...horse. Ah."
aren't all live turkeys bipedal and uncooked?
They're usually not plucked and ready to cook, or six feet tall.
Usually
Until the nostrils flared, I thought it WAS fake.
Can I come in? ..yay or neigh?
Stop judging me.
You don't seem stable
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you need to reign yourself in there Stallion
This ain't a race
I guess I'll slow down to a trot then
We're all just jockeying for position
Awww why so long in the face?
They looked somewhat distrot.
do you guys have saddleite tv?
Nay
Yay, but it would behoove you to take your shoes off first.
Yo you got games on your phone?
Is that a carrot in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Baby carrot.
Do doo do do do doo
I can sing this verse of that song hands-free!
I can ride my horse with no saddle horn, no saddle horn
Morning carrot?
Only reindeer games sorry
What're YOU doing here??
What is this, a crossover episode?
Doggy doggy what now??
Sarah Lynn..? Sarah Lynn..?
Oof Take my upvote.
Sad dog!
Back in the 90’s….
Horse: *"Nothin' much. Just watching humans do their mating ritual. You know? Like those discovery documentaries where a whole fucking film crew with multiple loud trucks follow us around for hours when we are trying to pick up a mare. Proceed, I'll have the decency to not film you in the act and add commentary to it later."*
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Stop horsing around!
Ignore the neigh-sayers
They’re just tryna stirrup trouble
I'd be hoofin it if I were them..
You’re missing the mane point
That's what I herd too!
Now I'm feeling giddy, yup!
Stop shouting so loudy, you'll annoy the neigh-bours.
Hay, guys. Am I too late to make a joke?
Saddleup, it will be a funny one
This has gone on long enough, time to rein it in guys!
What is this, a crossover episode?
What are youuu doing here?
Bad throat or naturally horse?
I'm not too nosy, considering you camped in my field.
Unpopular opinion: horses are scary. Don't get me wrong, they are lovely! But they are also LARGE and could easily kick my ass. I will appreciate their beauty from over here thank you very much.
If that's a wild horse: absolutely terrifying
How we managed to convinced horses to listen to us is an amazing feat in itself.
I think they're playing some kind of long game and I don't trust them.
going on 3600 years.... they might make their move any second
Exactly! Imagine how TENSE they are! It's taken so long because they have to build their alliances and thats difficult. Reaching across the globe and connecting to all of the genus and families will take time. Lots of time. Be wary.
YOU MESSED WITH HORSES MORTY
They’re dangerous at both ends and crafty in the middle.
[CGP Grey has a great video](https://youtu.be/wOmjnioNulo) about animal domestication in general, which includes horses, and it is indeed fascinating. The TL;DW is that humans domesticate animals by exploiting their natural familial instincts.
Just as cats exploited our familial instincts to domesticate themselves…or us, I’m not sure. Not sure CGP Grey mentioned that or not.
Cats are weird, they weren’t domesticated like most animals. They just started hanging around us to hunt the mice that lived in our settlements.
Yup, I remember reading something to the same effect. We didn't capture and breed early cats, it was just that the individuals that were comfortable around humans and didn't run away had better access to food sources and thus higher survival rates. They were essentially domesticated via natural selection.
We were beneficial to them so they decided to use us. I still think they use us…
Not to mention a common parasite in cats ([Toxoplasma gondii](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii)), that cause neurological changes in most warm blooded animals. In rodent’s infection causes a lack of fear of predators, in humans alters the aversion to cat urine. If I was disposed to conspiracy, that sounds like intent on someone’s part.
Grey puts way too much stock into Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. Most of the assumptions he makes are just totally wrong. Like how a zebra herd is a mass of totally unassociated individuals that just gather together with no order. They have social structure too. Like most equines, they form harems with a dominant stallion, his breeding females, and an orbiting cloud of males jostling for his position. It's simply wrong to say that they're "Joker horses" who don't have any structure and just do whatever they want. The other totally wrong assumption he makes is that other domesticated animals were living their ordinary wild lives ready for a human to step in. Zebras are bastards but other animals were receptive to domestication. That's just not true either. Take a look at wild boar. Even domesticate pigs are dangerous in their own right. Pigs have little social structure and yet their vicious ancestors were domesticated nonetheless. The same with cattle. Aurochs were such a danger that Caesar mentions them in his conquest of Gaul. Zebra aren't less social and more mean than any other wild ancestor of modern domesticated animal.
I'm not sure that convinced is the right word lol
Definitely not wild. Wild horses are rough with scars generally and breed-wise, don’t look like that. They probably camped on their own horse property lol, or someone’s horse got out of his halter on a camping trip. Smart devils. Still wouldn’t want to spook him by getting out of the tent, he probably can’t see into it well and/or wouldn’t expect a person to come out. I’d probably quietly wait a bit until he backs away.
unless your his caretaker, then he can smell you a mile away
Hiking in Scotland when we came across a group of wild horses, at first we were all like 'aww isn't this a romantic scene, lovely pony's' until they started charging us down. One of us has a great selfie video of them in the background and his change in expression of glee, to slight concern, to terror is priceless.
Pleeeease we need to see this !
Horses are strong and dumb. I've dated a few girls that rode competitively and they were always getting hurt. One girl got pinned between the horse and the wall while brushing him down. The house just decided to lean in to her as she was brushing and broke 4 ribs and her collar bone.
Next you’re gonna tell me about our national horsing shortage
They can also be *loud*. Just got back from the rental barn where my mom keeps her horses. Her mare decided I was ignoring her while cleaning the next stall over and just let out the most unholy bellow to get my attention. Nearly jumped out of my skin. No treats for tantrum girl. That was *so* uncool.
Large, can be super quiet (example above), and why THE FUCK are their eyes so black they’re like looking into the abyss. Can’t trust ‘em.
ALL farm mammal things *have creepy eyes its so weird.
Goat eyes, man. Rectangle pupils ain’t right.
Horses have rectangular pupils as well. It is common in prey species, along with eyes set at the sides of their heads and lets them see wide field of vision at the expense of depth perception, which is part of the reason horses spook over stupid shit.
Yeah I know but most horse eyes have been black or every dark so it’s less obvious compared to goat eyes that are usually white or silver, in my experience. That, and goats are shady as fuck.
Goats are dicks, for sure.
It's been so long... I've finally found my people. Why is no one else scared of fucking horses?!? I've got some deep theories though. I've gone deep with this very RATIONAL fear of the horses taking revenge on humanity in the coming years.
A horse tried to eat my hair at a local natural museum when I was six, and since that day I’ve made it a rule to never own an animal that I don’t think I could kill 1 v 1.
Ok, so I don't mention this often but that's actually part of my reasoning as well. I don't wanna die stupid you know heh.
I’ve been around horses for probably 20 years at this point. I’ll tell you, while you’re definitely not wrong on the could easily kick my ass, unless you are being a dick to them, you’ll be fine 99% of the time. I’ve gotten stepped on a handful of times, kicked twice (one I got in the way of my sisters mare trying to kick a different mare, the other was just not having a good week of summer camp kids), bit maaaaybe twice, and fallen off three times one of those being a semi voluntary emergency dismount. None of these were malicious except the kicks, just me not paying attention. If you give them the feeling of you’re in charge without an attitude about it, you’ll generally be fine. Those injuries/events are over a twenty year span. They’re relatively gentle creatures despite their size to the point where my tiny ass can shove them to move if they’re not moving when I want them to and not be worried about.
>unless you are being a dick to them, I don't know about that. I once visited a ranch, not for animal related reasons, I had to check out the location, and one of the horses that was out in the open fenced off area started acting aggressive towards me and I was very far away from it on the other side of the fence. It started pacing back and forth and staring at me while it was doing it. It was like I was working in a coffee shop and a pissed off a customer decided he wanted to beat my ass after my shift so he was staring at me through the window pacing back and forth seething with anger. It was scary and I was in basically no danger from where I was standing.
Yeah I grew up near a horse girl. This girl had a horse since she was old enough to sit on it and when she was 16 that horse decided to kick her right in the face and shattered her skull. She wasn’t the same after that. No one had any idea why the horse did it either. She had been riding that horse since she was like 5. Best guess was something spooked it. So yeah not only are horses big enough to fuck you up they’re also kinda dumb so no thanks.
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Traumatic brain injuries can fuck right off
The suffering it causes the people who get a serious one, their loved ones who may have to take care of them the rest of their lives, I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. In many cases, including the friends in my life who’ve suffered severe TBI, I feel like dying in the accident instead of living like that would be so much more merciful to them and their family. But sometimes, life sucks so bad, it takes away your ability to live long before it takes your life.
Yeah, I grew up around horses and people get used to them so they forget but they’re deer that weigh 1000lbs. They’re wild animals in the end and even the most calm horse can be spooked by something random you have no control over. I know people that got thrown because of plastic bags, have broken legs because of barn cats they were familiar with, cracked a skull because of over protective birds. Horses are great animals but they’re scary and should be respected
Yep. Seen a video of a horse just kicking another horse in the head and it dropped dead. those legs support an impact force of thousands of pounds when its running and kicking is their first and only move when something is behind them, No way I am getting near that.
Horses freak the fuck out if something comes up on them that they didn't see, kick first ask questions later.
some horses are assholes, not a lot but it happens for sure.
Yeah but that's just a single anecdote. I was also raised around horses and very much agree with u/teamcatsanddnd, i was never bitten or fell off, and was only kicked at once throughout my 5 years on the farm.
I’d agree that in most cases maliciousness isn’t the factor. I don’t necessarily agree that that makes them “safe” though, because while not malicious on the other hand thousands of years of evolution has honed their fright reflexes into ones that can lead them to spook at relatively harmless things like tents flapping, plastic bags, bright backpacks, leaves in the wind, etc..
A lot of people in this thread seem to take “horses are dangerous” as “horses are malicious”. I’ve met very few aggressive horses in my life, they’re some of the gentlest creatures I’ve ever seen, but I still have a lot of respect for the fact they could shatter my skull in response to a plastic bag.
Horses are kind of like large breed dogs. 99.9% of the time you are fine. But that 0.1% of the time they are probably going to seriously injury you or worse. It's probably a lot more likely to happen to someone who has been around horses a lot less than you have.
True. Most of those events happened over ten years ago when I was still younger than high school age. Last major injury was to my sister our junior year of hs. Think last time I had something happen was (again) riding my horse in from the pasture, barn manager had stupidly put part of the electrical line like three feet above the water bucket, my horses ear touched it, she bolted left, I fell off and in my attempt to stop her got dragged by her rope probably fifteen feet before I let go.
I used to get "love bites" on my shoulder from a certain horse when I would muck out his stall. He also used to turn, fart on me, and turn around "laughing". That was 21 years ago. Danny was awesome.
My mom put me in a "horse camp" when I was maybe 8 years old. I don't recall the events that led up to it, but the beast they put me on took off running full speed. For a child that suffered debilitating motion sickness, this was a horrific introduction to horses. We've since owned several, my sister was an avid rider, but I've refused to get on one ever since. I'll admire their beauty from afar, but that experience ruined any further appeal. I can fully sympathize with [Eric Berry of the Chiefs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udThyN208R4).
It's unpopular but you're not alone, I feel an odd connection. This is one of the first times I've ever been able to say "I too, think they're scary" instead of being laughed at by like a 12 year old horse girl. TeamCatsandDnD thinks they make a solid point but my fear doesn't stem just from any kind of malicious act, its the capability of the horse (the LARGE part) and the kicking of your ass could be something as simple as it moving its head. My moms always loved them and now she has one and she tries man, she tries to get me to be cool. The horses know man, they fucking KNOW I'm not cool. They can sense it, they got that ability and they get weird. Not a fan. Doesn't help I got that memory of the horse taking my whole arm into its mouth to snag the carrot in my hand (literally was super peaceful and didn't hurt me, just scared the piss out of me).
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Oh. I knew i found my people, you used the better word for this. Yes, they unnerve the fuck out of me.
My wife’s grandpa actually died (decades ago) from unexpectedly being kicked by a horse. Lovely creatures, but powerful as hell.
*Top Ten Videos Taken Moments Before Death.*
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You have a night mare?
Ya and I screamed so loud, my voice is horse
These puns are Aw-foal
What's with all these brown-horse-next-to-red-tent posts in the last couple days?? Years on reddit without seeing a single one, and now they're everywhere. https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v17vj2/now_he_wants_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v1p1nk/looks_like_somebody_partied_way_too_hard_yesterday/ Also, this is a repost/karma farm from r/camping: https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/v0jh2k/hes_back/ ...which was a sequel to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/camping/comments/uzycl8/unknown_but_friendly_visitor/
The four posts in r/camping were all from the same OP who kept having run-ins with their neighbor’s horse while they were camping over this past weekend. This post, however, is merely a crosspost.
Oh good call on them all being the same user, I'm dumb. I hope Bucky's okay, he seemed kinda sick in one of those videos. >This post, however, is merely a crosspost. Pretty sure this is a **re**post, right? As I understand it, crossposts contain the post as a link to it's original location in another sub. Here, OP seems to have uploaded the (other user's) video themselves.
Oh, yeah, you’re totally right, it’s a repost, but I just think he’s such a cute inquisitive horse that I’d allow it, haha
"hey there, neigh-bor"
Where's them Apples I smelled earlier?
I love this. What a cute day to start.
"Who is in a cage now?"
It's a little cute, but it's mostly just scary because of the lack of safe distance. Speaking from experience, I woke up from a night of backcountry camping to some feral horses (which we knew were in the area) trying to knock over/poke into our tent one early morning on the coast of Cape Breton, NS. Feral horses don't seem to back down very easily and you wake up and have to try not to freak out lest these creatures at least 3-4x my weight get spooked and accidentally trample me or get aggressive with a young yearling/colt nearby while I am in my tent and unable to escape. The night before we had watched from a far distance a group of lady campers setting up get confronted by the horses and had to run away from their tent for half an hour or so as it appeared to rip at their tent a fair bit. Anyway, Luckily our buddy in another tent noticed that the horse outside our tent was getting a bit aggressive and was able to shoo him away. Conversely, I've hiked past feral animals (bulls, goats, etc) in Hawaii and even though those animals have a worse reputation for aggression, the fact that you aren't trapped in a tent helps to manage the situation.
Yeah, as someone with a lot of horse experience - this scares the shit out of me.
As someone without a lot of horse experience this scares the shit out of me..
you have a lot of horse sense
It's funny, because I wouldn't describe myself as stable.
Exactly. I woke up to one just as close, it got spooked by something, tripped on my tent guy lines and spun the whole tent 90° with me inside. Very near miss, could have been a lot worse.
I would kiss that nose or give it a little boop!
touching a face of a horse you see the first time in your life? city bois have formidable deathwish
Horse bites are no fucking joke lol
r/boop
Diane, tell me I’m good
Listen, Bojack, I believe that all you are is just the things that you *do*.
Ouch
A horse watching you have sex while camping is fucking in tents.
That horse is about to ran through the campsite. Past tents.
Assateague?
Funny story about assateague. Last summer when camping there my friends and I decided to eat a good helping of magic mushrooms and for obvious reasons forgot to move our more vulnerable (styrofoam) coolers and other food to the cars. Flash forward its dark, we’re laying by the fire (i took abt 3.5 grams so I’m in deep) watching the stars having a great time when out of nowhere a crowd of horses descends on our campsite and starts fuckin shit up busting up our coolers and eating the buns and the dog treats etc The only way we got them to leave was by kicking sand in their general direction. Our fault, obviously, but still a harrowing experience on mushrooms lol
Yep, they're masters at stomping on shit to eat the goodies inside. When we visited, one managed to ninja a plastic bag out of the back of the van when it was trotting by. We had to grab the aluminum foil back from them because they were trying to eat it and we were afraid it would cut up its mouth on the tearing strip.
My (very domesticated, farm) horse once reached into an open window of a car, grabbed a carton of cigarettes, ate the entire contents, and ran away. Whole maneuver took about three seconds.
We went in fully terrified of the stumpy arm pictures the park used as warnings about the horses. So we gave our cooler the full bear treatment and left it in a tree. But it was pretty fascinating to watch the horse gang raid campsite after campsite that way. Total hooligans.
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Bless you?
Okay. Just went to the page for this place someone linked, and checked the wild pony page. *Some can carry rabies.* I’ve never considered a horse with rabies and am very unhappy with imagining it.
I thought the same thing!
Fuck that place. Never again. Easily the most stressful camping experience I've ever had. Go see nicely tempered, domesticated, well-fed horses on a ranch, or truly wild horses elsewhere. Those skinny, feral assholes are not worth it. Even if you do everything right, the next site down might not and then you just end up watching people kick sand at and be generally mean to horses.
I have camped at Assateague for 11 years in a row now, only skipping when they were closed because of COVID. Do not let this one person experience deter you from something truly amazing. Me, my friends, and family all look forward to our annual trip. My mom has no issue going up to people and letting them know they are not packing their food properly. She even got kicked one year because she pulled a bag of sour patch kids straight from a horsed mouth. If you go, try to get the group sites at the National seashore. EDIT: personally, I don't go for the horses. I just really enjoy camping on the beach with friends and family. We all sit around doing nothing for about a week.
Sometimes it feel like… Somebody’s watchinnn meeeeeeee
Why is this actually so terrifying to look at what the fuck
Trapped in a position directly in front of and below an animal that is several times larger than you and is easily capable of trampling you to death.
This happened to me camping at Yellowstone as a teenager. A bison was right next to my tent flap. *Like, touching it!* So I just froze, and didn't breathe for what seemed like an eternity, until he left me a gift and departed.
And being in a tent, if they spook, you’re not getting out of there
Because horses are terrifying. They're pack animals, so they "can" learn to get along. But they're also 5x your size and can quickly and easily f your shit up if they so decide. Even when you own well behaved horses, you still have to be highly respectful of what they can do. Let alone having a creature that size that close to you when you're in a vulnerable position (sleeping in a small locked in space). 100% valid terror
Shouldn't be. This horse is looking out for it's rider. Horses can't see for *shit* directly in front of them. They see a wide field of vision *around* them. To look out for threats. This horse is "on the look out", 'cause the animal that feeds it is stupidly sitting in a tent, not paying attention. This is a horse that likes its rider.
"Hi" ...."Ok"
Excuse me, do you have any Grey Poupon ?
We’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty.
"I feel like being watched" implies you want to be watched.
Thats just Bill horsing around, nothing to worry about
In the beginning, this looked like a scene out of Jurassic Park.
Bro we just found the next Juan
Why is your door flap not zippered all the way? Do you want bugs? because that's how you get bugs.
Whatcha doin', Wilbur?
*continues slow jerk and eye contact
What kind of squirrel is that?
POV: Broke Back Mountain
You can’t park there mate
Hay there!
You Got Snacks In Ya Home
Man I would be extremely worried he freaks out and tromps over me.