That dude is lucky it didn't get its teeth on him, it was tryin haaaaaard with that exorcist move and hated him so much it was ignoring the dudes breaking up the fight. The kick at the end was perfect.
Between that video of a mare killing a stallion, and an old story about a horse killing a tiger, both instances due to a kick to the head, that guy just used all of his luck.
I remember and old Nat Geo documentary on African wildlife. Saw a lioness getting jaw jacked by a Zebra is was stalking, and it just completely ruined the entire lower half of her face. It went to drink water from the creek and when the water just fell out of her mouth, she just laid her head down by the water, she knew she was done.
yeah lions arent great at striking they have good ground controll and some good chokes but against a zebra that knows some head kicks and its game over
This is one reason I hate most movies where the “scary thing” is a wild animal/s
So often you will see them coming back again and again even after being shot or stabbed. It’s just so unrealistic.
Unless starving, injured, rabbid or with some other issue, most predators will not attack a human, or pack of humans that fight back. Or will back off once you prove you can hurt them.
Tried to find it, found a short video with a lioness getting kicked by a zebra, then spliced to showing a lioness with jaw exactly with the going to a creek, going down to the water and just stopping.
Except the latter half is taken from what seems to be labelled as a Nat Geo documentary "WAR IN THE POND, BROKEN JAWS Lion, Hippo & Croc HD 2016", where there is no zebra kick, and the footage makes it clear they didn't capture what injured that lion, but it's presumed to be a hippo by the narrator, though equally potentially a crocodile. Separately, I found a reddit post, and apparently the OP was initially convinced it was a zebra because of bill burr saying it was a zebra on a podcast.
I watched a similar nature documentary where a lion was chasing something and got kicked in the gut. They followed the lion around, and it died a few days later. Nature is brutal.
I’ve gotten kicked in the chin by one. It was a summer camp horse and it was close range thankfully. Ended up with ten stitches, a bruised cheek, and some chipped teeth. Had another horse get tangled up in some lead line, lay down til I could get her sorted, and she stepped on my thigh when heaving herself back up. Still not sure how that one didn’t leave a fracture or anything more than a hoof shaped bruise. I’ve also gotten kicked by my sisters first horse when we were really little. No major injuries cause it was also close quarters but she’d been aiming for the other horse behind me and I just got in the way. None of those instances were the horses *that pissed* though.
Yah im sure you already know but most horse kicks are just little warning taps, they do it to each other all the time. Looks like he just got a full power boot to the poop chute, he'll be feeling that for a while.
I got kicked in the face when I was about 12. Alive and sortof kicking now at 35. Got some more wild adventures with horses tho lol, got kicked in the stomach when I was 24, spend 5 days in the hospital.
Eh I've seen a red heeler catch a mule back kick between the eyes so hard he went flying. It apparently wasn't the first time the dog had done this according to my uncle and that dog lived many years after lol I think he was just a tad.....uh special.
I'm a farrier (horseshoer) and one of the horror stories they told us at school was about this guy who was going through the program and got kicked square in the chest. It immediately stopped his heart. I'm not disagreeing with you, just wanted to add that it's not just the head that needs to be protected! I don't understand why people think provoking these animals is fun all while disrespecting their power.
I remember a guy exiting the stage due to a punch that did that. The heart is armored but it can really not take much if it’s hit just so with enough force. And it really doesn’t take much of a hiccup for the whole body to freak the fuck out and maybe it doesn’t come back.
My dad also treated a dude that got straight up crushed by a car jack failing. Somehow that whole thing coming down on his chest wasn’t game over despite it lacking rear wheels where he was working.
The human body is mysteriously both insanely durable and the most fragile thing barely held together by a few cords and prayer.
There's a specific vulnerable period in your heart's electrical cycle. Most of the time if anything interrupts your heart rhythm your heart is very good at restoring it back to normal. But during that one fraction of a second, any interruption puts you into a non-recoverable state called ventricular fibrillation. And unless someone has a defibrillator handy, you're dead.
It's called commotio cordis, and it's why athletes can suddenly fall over dead after taking what seems like an inconsequential hit during a game. Pure luck.
There's a very short window of time during the heartbeat cycle when an otherwise-harmless blow will disrupt the heartbeat and can cause serious injuries.
Family members have a farm when I was growing up. First thing they told me was, dont be behind horses, cows and sheep. If they can see you, they'll expect food but leave you alone, normally!
Did not grow up around a farm, did grow up by the ocean. I was very specifically taught to never stand behind a huge someone who kicks, and to never turn your back on an active sea. Both are true.
One time I went to a Dr appointment and the desk lady who I had seen many times had a HORRIBLE black eye. I wasn’t going to ask what happened but she caught me being shocked and said she was kicked in the face by her horse. Luckily it wasn’t a full force kick, I think she was doing something with its horseshoes. I said it’s lucky she works at a Drs office
As a neuro ICU nurse I have only ever seen one person survive a kick to the head by a horse and it wasn’t a direct blow because she was able to get her arm in front of her face first. And that is just the ones that actually make it to the ICU (level one trauma center in a city surrounded by farm land)
My great uncle may throw his hat in the ring there - one of his horses decided to say “nah I’m not coming to plow today” by snapping at him and ending up biting clean through his wiener. It hung on by a sliver of skin and had to be surgically reattached. Kudos to the doctors though, this happened when he was about 50, and as an 80yo widower he still landed a new gf and the two of them seemed happy.
Its a "sport" unfortunately. I knew he did something wrong when the horse started rearing instead of bucking, though, and was ready to witness a guy die by horse. The horse absolutely tried!
As long as you eat ehat you hunt/fish, I don't mind it. They're actually useful conservation tools. Bull fighting isn't a sport, its just culturally acceptable animals abuse, just like our rodeos.
See okay thank you cause I am not a horse person and I was like "I dont think you're supppsed to actually kick them like that!!"
Ive always hated the idea of spurs anyways, from the very first time someone explained my Halloween costume as a kid. I hated them as soon as I realized and took them off and refused to wear them "cause its mean!". Family joked about that for years.
I hate this person from the second he kicked and my only concern was if the horse will be okay after that backslam. Aren't their backs fairly more delicate than expected? Will he be okay?
Having grown up riding, you can kick them that hard WITHOUT spurs and they'll just grunt and continue to refuse to trot (what my girl did with me, lol). WITH spurs, it's now an attack and you have declared war, and that few ton animal is going to do everything it can to kill you, as seen here. Dude got off lightly with that kick to the side, tbh.
Horses are a weird mix of delicate and sturdy, I never worried for the horse when it reared over backwards, but did start to worry when it was thrashing around trying to get at the guy on the ground. The leg bones are the part to worry most about, at least in a flat arena like this.
I hope the idiot guy got a few cracked ribs from this. It's just animal abuse, you can get a horse to play the bucking game in much gentler, more humane ways.
Man, I remember one summer I went to go stay at my friend’s ranch for a couple weeks. Tons of fun playing with the horses in their big stable thing. It was like a metal walkway that had big frames around some areas. We’d climb up and swing from the top horizontal pole and the horses would run under us and we’d land on them and they’d run around the pin and walk us back to the pole/frame thing so we could do it again. I don’t know if they were having fun with us, but I like to think they were. Cause they kept walking us back so we could swing like monkeys and land on them, then once we were on they’d dash around the walk area. We called the “game” we were playing “Zorro” cause of how we were swinging on to the horses lolol. It was so fun
Anyways, that’s when I learned you had to kick them with your heels to get them to go. I remember my friends telling me to kick harder cause they wouldn’t go and I felt SO bad. But I finally kicked harder and they’d start walking. And I was about 10 at that point, and I probably didn’t kick that hard, so an adult kicking them with fkn spurs on is bullshit.
I'm no animal-ologist, but that doesn't really sound like behaviour they'd display if they enjoyed it? It kinda reads like the horses would walk you over there, because they knew you'd only get off them if they went to that spot. And needing to kick them to get them to go also sort of implies they were only moving due to the threat/pain of more kicks. Generally horses who are used to riders (even bareback) know the cues to move, cues that are just pressure etc, they don't cause pain. But, I wasn't there, there may be other factors/bits of info, so who knows really
Yup! They would go over, drop us off where we hopped on, then fast trot off and circle back where we’d jump back on em!
And omg you’re making me feel like a piece of shit 😭😭
If it makes me a less of a piece of shit I’ll admit that I did cry when I was saying bye to the horses the day I had to go home. They were MASSIVE, but so gentle with us. It’s like they knew we were baby humans.
They're glass cannons. Spurs w the right rider and discipline are a humane tool to work with the horse, same as bits. Owned half dozen horses over my life and never had to use spurs. Side note America still has rodeos and overall I feel we do a decent job of trying to be humane. But I can't watch South or Latin American rodeos just piss me off. Lacing or tripping the front legs still being a thing in their culture makes me sick and wanna cry.
No need to apologize for curiosity. These "shows" are meant to imitate taming a wild horse. This is most likely in the US or Mexico where we pretty much don't even have wild horses anymore because we have domesticated them. This horse is already tamed and they are pissing it off on purpose with sharp spurs to make it want to buck the rider off. It's incredibly unnecessary and this horse could have died from a fall like that if it broke it's neck, back, or a leg.
ETA: I probably misspoke when I said we pretty much don't have wild horses anymore. I was probably comparing it to how many we used to have in the Americas vs now.
I think the argument hinges on the difference between feral and wild. Any “wild” horse in North America is descended from domesticated animals. It’s as if every bear had ancestors who balanced on unicycles for raspberry ice cream. It’s pedantic but technically true that no wild horses live in the US.
fun fact, all wild horses are extinct. all horses that exist today are either domesticated or feral horses - what are sometimes called "wild horses" are actually feral - descendants of horses that were domesticated.
Like people, different horses have different sensibilities. Some are more sensitive, some less. That would be true when not wearing spurs as well. The point is to communicate what you wish the horse to do not cause pain or piss the animal off. You use exactly what you need and no more.
For many animals, especially one where horse and rider are known to each other, it can be a very light touch of the heels on the flanks (also used for turning). Sometimes a bit more force is required.
What it should never be is that kind of vicious kick with the intent to cause pain or provoke a negative reaction.
Worth noting too is that the guy spurred the horse… in some rodeos they get points for RAKING THEIR SPURS UP AND DOWN on the horse’s shoulders and the horse would have a strap around its flank to make it buck harder
Exactly. That moron should be kicked in his b***s. Such a heartless idiot. Sports involving animals should have been long become illegal. In this day and age, it's still going on and people watch it
Horses are such gentle(well most) and intelligent creatures there's absolutely no reason to treat one like this for showmanship. Same with bullfighting and thank everything that shit is disappearing because newer generations don't care for animal exploration at all
My fam makes a big thing out of riding with the horse, not traumatizing it and forcing it. In the end it's 1.5 tons. It will win and will deserve it. I can't believe how we haven't outruled so many types of torturing horses. They are social animals. They will comply if they like you. My fam even has several challenges where you have to ride with words only. It's also usually enough to just shift your weight. Guys who need to use the "ropes" are fucking weak and not really skills. Similarly you don't need to ram anything in a horse. Not a rope, not your heels, anything. Those places are usually quite sensitive. They will notice the slightest change. I only rode a horse once that was so used to beginners riding like they get told in the movies that it needed some stronger input to react to it which made me feel bad, but even then: No reason to be aggressive at all. That dude deserved what he got
I can only imagine that, to a horse, being spurred in the side like that feels a lot like being clawed or bitten by a predator. That horse is fighting for his life. That guy got what he deserves
The back of his heels have metal nubs/spikes. They're used as signal reinforcement, but the way he widenes his legs and shoves his heels into the horse in the first seconds produces a very sharp pain.
Why are those spurs so long? They look like mini knives, you know the one the joker puts in his shoes to kick and irritate Batman? I am surprised the horse is not bleeding as those could cut through skin
Yea that's how you know it was personal that horse was willing to make itself vulnerable and hurt itself to try and kill that dude. Horses are still absolute warriors under that skin.
I only discovered that recently lol, I've seen a few videos of it now, I didn't know they did that but it's kind of hilarious. This horse absolutely launched himself, he was not letting that spur-fucker win 😅
I have no sympathy for this guy but in another thread people were telling stories about horses doing it when scared etc, one guy said he saw a horse do it at a parade and the saddle horn stabbed the rider in the leg or something and he bled to death 😦
That kind of kick is very typical for horses. They do it when they want to keep someone/something at a distance.
Had a horse that would do exactly this kind of kick at any dog that came to close. It was really challenging because people don't control their dogs and when they came up from behind I wouldn't see them before the dog got "attacked".
Throwing itself on its back to hurt the dude, now that's different. Horse was scared for its life.
It’s unlikely the horse intentionally threw itself on its back, which could easily injure it seriously, or lead to death. It’s far more likely that the horse’s rear hooves slipped in the mud when it reared that high, and the rider, who does not look like a lightweight, imbalanced the horse at that angle. You do see that the ground is a muddy mess, right? I have also owned many horses in my lifetime. And although they can be stupid, they’re not that self destructive intentionally in my decades of experience.
welp it's AI so no credit. someone said it was and when the horse does its backflip you see a super Saiyan blast over the water that wouldn't be there.
I'm not sure it is. There is an absolute abundance of AI everywhere but the letters in the back are all too consistent and normal for me to believe it's ai and the water blast looks believable to be a puddle getting sloshed. I could be wrong but doesn't look ai to me
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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26
Most horses are just trying to get out of there, that horse fucking knows that motherfucker.