Proving again that the truth is stranger than fiction...
I’ll be picking out a specific case out of the hundreds
I’ve worked on in the past years and give you a brief
rendition of the facts and outcome. And, I may cover pertinent equine related topics.
Taking advantage of situations that have occurred to others may lead
you to say things to yourself like, “Boy I’m glad
that didn’t happen to me!” Anyway, for sheer entertainment
value, you’ll like them.
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NAES BLOG - November 2019
About 10 years ago, I was asked to help the defense team for a large riding stable up in a resort town in Colorado.
The case involved a tourist family from Atlanta, who had called the stable too late in the week to schedule a lesson for the little girl in their family. The father was able to talk the stable into allowing them to come out just to pet the horses.
While standing next to the railing to which the horses were tied up, one of the horses, a Shetland pony, reached out and bit the child’s ear off. The father was able to retrieve what was left of the ear and carried it with them as they drove off to the emergency urgent care facility.
Naturally, the tourists sued the stable claiming there obviously was a “dangerous propensity” for the pony to bite. The entire situation could have been stopped if the stable had been more adamant in refusing to allow the tourists to stop bye “just to look” at the horses.
This case serves as a warning to never change the operation that you have, which was a riding stable that kept a very tight schedule for people to ride. By allowing these folks to come out, the stable was in no position to simply have non-paying people at their stable, and were unable to adequately supervise the horses tied to the rail for the next scheduled ride.
It turned out that the case never went to trial because the father had a severe illness and actually passed away prior to the scheduled trial date.
The insurance company for the stable ended up paying a very small amount just to settle the case. This type of case brings us all who are in any kind of business to make sure we’re not tempted to do something else without proper training and preparation.
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November 2019
HELSINKI (AP) — In a glimpse of the future, an entire sports event has been run on horse manure.
Put that horse manure to good use! …the Finnish used it to run their recent 2019 Helsinki International Horse Show.
More than 150 megawatt hours of energy was created from the 100 tons of manure collected from competing horses during the event in the Finnish capital, which hosted the FEI World Cup jumping qualifier. More at this link
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