There is an important lesson to be learned here.

[theweaselking]

The lesson is much along the same lines as "never eat anything larger than your head"

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[publius1.livejournal.com]

The problem seems to me that the little girl kinda lunged for the horse, who took it badly.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes. She shoved it, it tossed her.

"Do not shove animals that are ten times your size" is a lesson much along the lines of "never eat anything larger than your head"

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

"Do not shove animals who could eat your head (in one bite)"?

[publius1.livejournal.com]

The awesome thing is how proportional the horse's response was. He grabbed onto her hair and tossed her aside, rather than ripping out her throat and licking at the blood as it beat out of her.

Horses are awesome.

[rampagingturtle.livejournal.com]

If you watch the video that's online, prior to pushing the horse the kid hit it. She was being a brat and needed to be reminded that one should not depend on anything 10 times one's size and half one's IQ putting up with one's bullshit.

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Also, tie your hair back or wear a hairnet around horses, ffs.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Shoving is one method of telling a horse to move its ass out of the way. "Yield to a push" is part of ground-breaking. However, you're not supposed to push on their damn windpipes. You push on the shoulder to ask them to move their front feet.

This horse seems to think it's higher in the herd hierarchy than the kid. The bite is a fairly mild "hey leave me the fuck alone" response, but it's the sort of thing you really need to break them of using on humans, because horses are big, yo.

Also, what the hell is a little kid doing around an unrestrained horse? They are not puppies.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

It looks to me like he's part draft horse, though, and considering how even tempered they usually are I'm wondering just what went on prior to the shoving. In fact, looking up, it seems that the miserable brat was hitting the horse before she decided to shove him. Also, there's "here, I'm putting gentle pressure on your shoulder so you'll move to the right" and then there's "I'M GONNA LUNGE AT YOU OUT OF THE BLUE AND JAM MY HAND AGAINST YOUR THROAT BECAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE A TOY", and that clip looks like the latter to me. Far as I'm concerned, she got what she deserved.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm on the horse's side, too. Kid won't fuck with another one. But I have no idea what the person holding the camera was thinking. It can't have been a horse person.

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

There was a story on the local news the other night about a local farmer who had his sleeve chomped on by a llama and thrown 10 feet. Sadly, there appeared to be no video of this.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

That's because horses are fucking scary*, mmkay?

*in the right context. It was a great moment to see a horse-mounted cop resolve what looked to be couple in the middle of a post-bar night argument. The girl got to walk away and hail a taxi, and the guy got to talk to the horse, nose to nose. When the cop and horse moved away, the guy attempted to chase down the girl -- some people are dense like that. Hilarity ensued, as the cop turned around, cantered up to the guy and, without slowing down, grabbed him by the back of the jacket, rode another 20-30m and let go.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

For context's sake, this was in downtown Toronto.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

I would have applauded that cop.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

There was that, certainly, but that kind of incident is, regrettably, rather part of the cop routine. However, until then I've never seen a horse being used as a pacification device, and was astonished at the effectiveness.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

I'm not good with the clarity, today. Routine in the sense of everyday occurence, not the sense of short theatrical performance.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

SO- the post-bar fight is a normal thing, the mounted police in the middle is a normal thing,
the horse being used as blockade to the blockhead is not?
Or the Cop hoisting aforementioned blockhead by his petard and depositing him some distance away?

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

I should mention the fight wasn't a physical fight. It hadn't even progressed to the point of screaming, more like raised voices. This was pre-emptive resolving on the cop's part.

As for the normality, both the post-bar argument and the couple argument (and the combination of the two) aren't uncommon. The rest of it was a first, for me at least.

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

wait, the cop grabbed him by the jacket, or the horse picked up the guy by his jacket? either way, hilarity indeed!

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

The lesson is also "horses are not dogs, nor are they toys. They are giant motherfucking animals who could kill you with a foot, and you'd damn well better remember that when you're around them." It's a lesson more people need to learn, particularly if they're planning on being in a pen with a loose horse.

Realistically, that girl is lucky as hell. That horse could have stomped her into jelly. And the fact that he looks to me to be at least part draft horse (draft horses being notoriously easygoing) makes me wonder just how much teasing of the poor beast was cut from this clip.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

On a side note, crap like this makes me just fear for humanity... I wanted to see if I could find a longer version of this to see the before and after, and started typing in "horse bite" into youtube, and its nice little autocomplete suggestions (I guess from other searches) tried to throw "horses mating with humans" at me. o_O

[twilightbloo.livejournal.com]

http://www.videosift.com/video/Don-t-Be-A-Jerk-To-Horses
It's not much longer, but it shows the previous hit and the whole thing repeated in slow-mo.

[anktastic.livejournal.com]

Horses are assholes.