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Location: Phoenix | The article just shows a picture of a horse trailer surrounded by cars --no graphic pics. |
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Location: Millington, TN | Wow. How sad. This has me rethinking if I should leave the just the bars up or leave the bars and window up with the window open????? My bars are not the sturiest of all bars. All you have to do is pull down on a wire and it releases. It gets hot in the trailer so that is why I let the window down but keep the bars up! |
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Location: USA | GoMistyGo - 2015-08-04 8:19 AM Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be?? ..... That ....
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. A friend had one try to jump through the bars when they were up and another whose horse tried to go through the CLOSED drop down!
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | BLM - 2015-08-04 12:10 PM GoMistyGo - 2015-08-04 8:19 AM Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be?? ..... That ....
Yep - a horse is an animal afer all. We also have had friends who's horses have gone through the bars while they were up and tied in.
However, those who purposely leave their bars and windows down are stupid and are just waiting for an accident to happen. |
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Location: Kentucky | 3canstorun - 2015-08-04 12:15 PM BLM - 2015-08-04 12:10 PM GoMistyGo - 2015-08-04 8:19 AM Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be?? ..... That ....
However, those who purposely leave their bars and windows down are stupid and are just waiting for an accident to happen.
I'm not judging. I'm saying if you are driving down the road with your windows and bars down then you are asking for trouble. That should really be common sense. |
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| 3canstorun - 2015-08-04 11:15 AM
BLM - 2015-08-04 12:10 PM GoMistyGo - 2015-08-04 8:19 AM Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be?? ..... That ....
However, those who purposely leave their bars and windows down are stupid and are just waiting for an accident to happen.
I had my colt try to jump through a glass window in our indoor arena... it is a really thick glass, no opening whatsoever... luckily I got him down before he was successful. The window was clear above his reach but he was on his tippy toes pushing on the glass. Mine was throwing a temper tatrum. You just never know. |
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Location: USA | Murphy - 2015-08-04 11:20 AM 3canstorun - 2015-08-04 12:15 PM BLM - 2015-08-04 12:10 PM GoMistyGo - 2015-08-04 8:19 AM Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be?? ..... That ....
However, those who purposely leave their bars and windows down are stupid and are just waiting for an accident to happen.
Just saying, we don't know all the facts. |
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| Murphy - 2015-08-04 7:52 AM
That is horrific. Not sure on the details of this incident but I never haul with my bars down. I see so many people hauling down the interstate with their horse's heads hanging out the window.... how dumb do you really have to be??
I have hauled more miles in our hog trailer with no top at all than I have in my nice three horse trailer. Heck, when I first started riding my dad back in a ditch and loaded my horse in the back of the truck with cattle racks on it. Actually, I felt lucky to be able to go. I guess we were not as affluent as others.
Did anyone even think that maybe the horse was being stung by wasps???? I got stung about a week ago and it hurt like h3ll. I always check my trailer but since that happened I really do a serious inspectíon
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Location: Southern Oregon | Very horrific! I never haul with out my bars up!!!! I have passed several horse trailers this summer on our freeway with their windows down and the horses in the back had there heads all hanging out the windows. ugh It makes me SICK!!! |
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| I'm confused after reading the article. It said it's head was dangling out the window when they pulled over? So it didn't make it on to the road? |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Thistle2011 - 2015-08-04 2:07 PM I'm confused after reading the article. It said it's head was dangling out the window when they pulled over? So it didn't make it on to the road?
The horse apparently "bled out".....My thoughts are that when he broke the bars down, he may have cut himself on the sharp metal. |
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | the link is just a areial shot of the truck/trailer and police around it nothing more.
Terrible for the driver..
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| A wise horse person told me many years ago, " If a horse can get their head through it, they can get through it." It is ashame ignorance about hauling causes such tragedy. |
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Location: North Dakota | This scares me!!!!!! I have a gelding that is a total butt-head in the trailer. If you sit at a red light for an extended period of time he will start rearing up and the entire trailer bounces all over the place. I had to have RHINO LINING sprayed up the sides all the way to the windows!! You can still see the damage he causes! He has been checked for everything a horse could have so it is just pure bad behavior!! I have had locks put on the drop down windows and they are NOT opened because I know he would try to crawl out, absolutely!!! I also have some nice kick marks all over the side he is tied on outside. He is just a jerk unless he is loose. He can't be stalled either without destruction! He is lucky he is loved dearly LOL! |
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| NJJ - 2015-08-04 2:12 PM
Thistle2011 - 2015-08-04 2:07 PM I'm confused after reading the article. It said it's head was dangling out the window when they pulled over? So it didn't make it on to the road?
The horse apparently "bled out".....My thoughts are that when he broke the bars down, he may have cut himself on the sharp metal.
I bet that was a horrific site going down the high way |
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| What I don't really understand about this happening, regardless of if the window is down or not, how did it make it out the window if it was tied up?
I've seen elsewhere where are horse had jumped out the side window (wasn't tied). Injured his hip when they were getting it out, but otherwise okay. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Buckles - 2015-08-05 6:10 AM What I don't really understand about this happening, regardless of if the window is down or not, how did it make it out the window if it was tied up? I've seen elsewhere where are horse had jumped out the side window (wasn't tied). Injured his hip when they were getting it out, but otherwise okay.
From the group discussion that I read, the driver (and I think she is the "new" owner) said that he was tied "long" by the seller. He did NOT make it out of the window. He "apparently" cut himself and "bled out". |
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| This link says it died of asphyxiation: http://theadvocate.com/news/police/13090173-123/horse-spooked-while-crossing-mississippi
I think the answer to that is this: Horses are huge and extremely strong and POWERFUL animals...for the most part, tying one up only restrains a willing horse...if a horse goes nuts and really,really wants to get lose or get away they will succeed or hurt themselves trying. This one didn't succeed in getting away but he certainly succeeded in getting himself killed. If he hadn't of died, he would probably of needed euthanization afterwards. I suspect whoever was hauling this horse will be traumitized for a long time after witnessing this happen.
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| runs4fun - 2015-08-05 6:27 AM I think the answer to that is this: Horses are huge and extremely strong and POWERFUL animals...for the most part, tying one up only restrains a willing horse...if a horse goes nuts and really,really wants to get lose or get away they will succeed or hurt themselves trying. This one didn't succeed in getting away but he certainly succeeded in getting himself killed. If he hadn't of died, he would probably of needed euthanization afterwards. I suspect whoever was hauling this horse will be traumitized for a long time after witnessing this happen.
Edited by rodeomom3 2015-08-05 7:35 AM
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