Occupational hazard.
Posted on 06/11/2011 4:09:32 PM PDT by Krankor
Linda O’Leary says she was snapping pictures of her grandkids feeding the horses at the Glenview Park District’s Wagner Farm last year when a chestnut-colored gelding came up and chomped down on her right hand.
“I just said, ‘He’s got my hand,’ ” O’Leary, a 65-year-old Northwest Side resident, recalled Friday of the incident last September in which she lost a finger. “I could feel a sucking feeling and then a crunch, and he opened his mouth, and I pulled my hand out, and it was gone.”
The horse had bitten off her right index finger down to the first knuckle, said O’Leary, who filed a personal-injury lawsuit Thursday against the Glenview Park District over the incident last Sept. 25.
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I’d rather be bit on the ass by a snaggled tooth mule.
True. We love our horses, but we never completely trust them. We're always wary when walking behind them or doing anything close to their mouths. That's a powerful set of jaws. And they can put a hoof right through you if they have a mind to.
What we have here is a horse being a horse and a person being an ass.
I saw a horse boot a big fat guy across the room so fast you could barely see it happen
I will NEVER get close to the south end of a northbound horse
What goes around, comes around....
Was she legally blind? Maybe that was her way of looking a gift horse in the mouth.
We have 7 horses,2 we trust.But those 2 are exceptional animals,the other 5 you keep your eye on.
Carrot.
My sister once bit a moose, but it didn’t sue.
Occupational hazard.
Horses have long faces, y’know. They can’t see their own mouths very well and use their lips to feel for food. It’s the lady’s fault she stuck her finger out instead of flat-handing it as everyone else has noted.
It’s advisable when passing through DuPont Circle, too.
So Teresa Kerry should never feed John?
wear long pants that cover your feet and your butt. Above all- Keep your pants on!
Heh, some clever people...:)
Was bitten in the face by a gelding - just hanging out between two stalls - he had a really evil look in his eyes and just attacked me. I think it was an alpha male thing.
After that incident the other kids were scared of him - but I made sure not to be fearful and would crawl under his belly before putting his saddle on. He never bit anyone again - so I don’t know for certain why he was so vicious that one time.
Ping!
A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
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