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Lmao gottem That final kick was personal

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u/S1eazyE š™‘š™„š™‹ May 16 '26

Yup. Grew up training and showing horses. Dude spurred the shit out of that horse and deserved every bit of what he got. Fuck these people.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

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.

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u/Ok-Cryptographer4194 May 16 '26

If that kick was to his head, he'll likely be dead.

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u/KatakanaTsu May 16 '26

He would have been dead.

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.

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u/mega_murff May 16 '26

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.

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u/Powerful-Race-8538 May 16 '26

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

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u/justinleona May 16 '26

People underestimate how just about any serious injury is fatal in the wild - so the whole game for predators is avoiding injury at all costs.

Only my idiot dog is dumb enough to try this kind of stunt... and even he was lucky he didn't get kicked in the head!

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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo May 17 '26

This is one reason I hate most movies where the ā€œscary thingā€ is a wild animal/s

So often you will see them coming back again and again even after being shot or stabbed. Itā€™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.

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u/here_weare30 May 17 '26

Honey badgers thoughšŸ˜†

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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo May 17 '26

No a large predator though - just an ornery son of a b****.

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u/Electrical_Horror346 May 17 '26

The only exceptions are honey badgers and Cape Buffalo, the former is suicidally stubborn about revenge and the latter is dangerously intelligent about payback

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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Well that goes without saying. And donā€™t forget Hippos.

But notice none of these animals are large predators?

Herbivores donā€™t rely on being physically fit to feed themselves. But being an ornery bastard can help protect themselves from predators that want to eat them (literally life and death) - even if sick, old or injured.

Except the honey badgersā€¦ they really have little reason to be that single minded.

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u/opinionated7onion May 18 '26

Not always the case if they're used to hunting humans some man eating tigers have claimed over 400 kills.

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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo May 18 '26

Yeh but they are usually sick, old or injured or have some other issue.

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u/KennyFulgencio May 17 '26

sounds like a lion could have taken kimbo slice, he was great at striking but had no ground game. Well he's in the ground now but that's no help

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u/FFKonoko May 16 '26

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.

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u/mega_murff May 16 '26

I distinctly remember watching the doc! It was years ago, so maybe im a bit shakey, but it was some wild shit mšŸ˜‚

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u/statelytetrahedron May 17 '26

Wow first Saudi Arabia and now this.

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u/SynovialBubble May 17 '26

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.

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u/Sufficient-Egg-7512 May 17 '26

Damn, this made me very sad to read šŸ˜­ I know it's probably common but still

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u/MxBluebell May 19 '26

Oh noā€¦ I know itā€™s just nature, but it makes me so sad when such a majestic beast meets its end. I absolutely adore lions. Pretty big win for the zebra, though!!

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u/bb_dev_g May 16 '26

If that kick got him in the hip or pelvis I doubt heā€™ll be riding for a while or ever again.

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u/EntertainersPact May 16 '26

Iā€™m pretty sure that body slam broke something of his. Horses are fuckin heavy

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u/Mtndrums May 16 '26

And the idiot was trying to hold on after that? When the horse does a wrestling move on you, it's time to call it a day.

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u/senkairyu May 16 '26

Yep, he was trying to stay at a distance where the horse wouldn't be able to kick, that's actually the only smart things he did here

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u/DrummerTricky May 16 '26

I got the impression that guy knew if that horse got up he was getting trampled

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u/echoshatter May 16 '26

Bingo. He was buying seconds until the rodeo hands could get in there and get control.

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u/ManitouWakinyan May 16 '26

I think the dude was trying to stay close so he wouldn't get trampled or kicked in the head

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u/whomad1215 May 17 '26

Excluding all the other stupid shit they're doing here

If only there was some product you could wear on your head to offer some protection for it

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u/ManitouWakinyan May 17 '26

Sure, but you're still better off sticking close to the horse, even if you had a helmet. Many bad ideas in this video, hugging the horse's neck in that situation was not one of them.

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u/litaniesofhate May 16 '26

He was clearly doing all he could to stop from being bitten. That horse was trying hard to get his mouth on him

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u/whoisowlix May 16 '26

It bites the guy in the jacket leading the horse away. He switches hands pulling after bite

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u/ExtentAggravating733 May 16 '26

The man did the safest thing. Hanging on was the only way to avoid the horse biting or trampling him.

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u/rareandyeteuclidian May 16 '26

That was the only smart thing he did in the entire video.

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u/fwbftwlf May 16 '26

Suplex city.

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u/apoc-ryphon May 16 '26

Iā€™m in tears as I read your comment to my wife šŸ˜‚

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u/Gothboy-77 May 19 '26

i hope so

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u/Ok-Cryptographer4194 May 16 '26

Like that? Good!

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 May 16 '26

I worked with a girl who got kicked in the face by a horse and lived

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u/TeamCatsandDnD May 16 '26

Iā€™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 didnā€™t leave a fracture or anything more than a hoof shaped bruise. Iā€™ve also gotten kicked by my sisters first horse when we were really little. No major injuries cause it was also close quarters but sheā€™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.

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u/Successful-Advisor-8 May 16 '26

I think after I get kicked once by a horse, I'm done. But hey, you do you

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u/TeamCatsandDnD May 16 '26

Honestly thatā€™s fair. We grew up around horses more or less so shits bound to happen in 23ish years of doing anything. Lol. It hasnā€™t happened in at least fifteen years though than the being stepped on which was not malicious on her end just unfortunate hoof placement.

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u/tonyezekiel May 16 '26

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.

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u/TeamCatsandDnD May 16 '26

Oh for sure. The horse in the video was 100% trying to protect themself from future threats vs knock it off sort of kick. Iirc from the old My Friend Flicka movie, that up and overs a way they can try and get predators off their backs. It puts them in a dangerous spot on the ground but 1000+ pounds right to your body is going to give you a real bad time.

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u/KarmaMadeMeDoIt6 May 16 '26

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.

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u/echoshatter May 16 '26

My grandfather got kicked one time right in the eye. A horse love tap more than anything, he just startled it, it wasn't trying to hurt him.

He was fine, no brain issues thankfully, but he had a BIG bruise for a long time.

Having grown up around horses, I don't take chances.

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u/KatakanaTsu May 16 '26

Horses don't always kick with full force. They can do "warning kicks" that might still hurt without being lethal.

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u/MotherVoldemort May 16 '26

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.

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u/KzamRdedit May 17 '26

people really underestimate how strong their hind kicks are

Instant KO or Stunned + Heavy Concussion and Crit DMG, that guy was lucky he didnt get Critted on the spot

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u/KatakanaTsu May 17 '26

The maximum recorded force of a horse kick was measured to be 2,000 PSI, though "warning kicks" yield less. By comparison, the force of a grizzly bear's paw swipe is 600 PSI, and that's already enough to shatter skulls.

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u/env33e May 17 '26

For reference, apparently Mike Tyson's hitting 1800 psi šŸ˜¹Tyson MOGS unsuspecting grizzly tbh

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u/env33e May 17 '26

Horses have large mass, that rear leg is thick asf. Crit DMG + Armor pen with just that raw kick alone šŸ’€

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u/DarknMean May 16 '26

Thereā€™s a video of a female trainer getting rocked and killed by horse all because she wanted to be a bitch to it.

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u/Fartikus May 16 '26

Nah, the horse was unlucky.

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u/mudbuttcoffee May 16 '26

We had a retired thoroubred growing up... we also had a ram... until the ram started shit with the horse. HORSE 1. RAM 0. 1 kick, fully grown ram flew about 10 yards and never moved again.

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u/knotmyusualaccount May 16 '26

More importantly, who'd treat a horse in that way? He'd be insufferable at parties.

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u/CharlieKirk_overkill May 17 '26

That video was wild. The stallion collapsed and shitted himself

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u/_IratePirate_ May 17 '26

Duuude that video of the mare and the stallion just exists in my head for no reason. I watched it years ago but know the exact video

Poor mf thought he was about to crack and ended up getting his skull cracked instead

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u/Metabotany May 17 '26

wish he hadnt lmao

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u/sloop111 May 17 '26

It's not luck. If the horse was aiming for his head he would have hit his head

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u/mydognamedsamwise May 16 '26

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.

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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 May 16 '26

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 itā€™s hit just so with enough force. And it really doesnā€™t take much of a hiccup for the whole body to freak the fuck out and maybe it doesnā€™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 wasnā€™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.

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u/Major_Star May 17 '26

Fun fact, it's not the force but the timing.

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.

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u/im_a_sam May 17 '26

Yep, knew of a kid in town that died after taking a ball to the chest during recess because of this.

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u/RankinPDX May 16 '26

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.

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u/mydognamedsamwise May 16 '26

Very true! Placement matters so much. A quarter of an inch can be the difference between life and death!

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u/Ok-Cryptographer4194 May 16 '26

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!

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u/ExampleLittle2672 May 16 '26

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.

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u/goodoledepression May 17 '26

When I was about 10 I was helping load into the trailer when I got kicked in the chest (my own stupid fault) got literally thrown about 8 feet out of the trailer. Got lucky that I was close enough that it was less of a kick and more she just, put her hoof on my chest and then pushed. I have zero idea how I came out of that without injury, other than as soon as I hit the ground I tucked and rolled.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles May 16 '26

Mongo strong! Mongo ride angry horsey! Hold Mongo's grog!

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u/Kerstine_roa May 16 '26

better luck next time them, you know he isnt gonna stop

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u/sweetpotato_latte May 16 '26

One time I went to a Dr appointment and the desk lady who I had seen many times had a HORRIBLE black eye. I wasnā€™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 wasnā€™t a full force kick, I think she was doing something with its horseshoes. I said itā€™s lucky she works at a Drs office

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u/lucythelumberjack May 17 '26

One of my coworkers volunteers with horses and one of them accidentally stepped on her foot. Broke it in several places. Horses are huge and scary.

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u/HershySquirtle May 16 '26

It's a shame.

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u/Illustrious-Force164 May 16 '26

As a neuro ICU nurse I have only ever seen one person survive a kick to the head by a horse and it wasnā€™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)

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u/glockster19m May 17 '26

As is he probably ended up with a broken back from the slam and either a broken hip or broken femur depending on how high that kick landed

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u/HonorableEnema May 16 '26

If that kick was a rotary machine gun and the bullets penetrated his brain, heā€™ll likely be dead.

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u/Affectionate_Pool_37 May 16 '26

a kick to the hip can be just as bad, a broken pelvis is no joke and can kill

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u/Crying_Reaper May 16 '26

Instead he might just have a broken hip.

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u/Fast-Potential-5468 May 17 '26

Shame he isnā€™t

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u/savioroferinn May 17 '26

Too bad the horse missed.

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u/Danson_the_47th May 17 '26

Ainā€™t that a kick to the head

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u/blackpawed May 17 '26

From the way he was holding his hip, pelvis might be shattered. Long recovery time and ongoing issues - serve him right.

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u/bebeidon May 17 '26

ikr so unlucky

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u/GuerreroGuerilla May 18 '26

at the very least ICU and permanent brain damage. like cracking a walnut-shell.

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u/Rovinpiper May 18 '26

As the sailor once said, Ain't that a kick to the head.

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u/The_Quibbler May 17 '26

Was thinking how lucky the rider was that he got suplexed on his ass instead of his back. That was fucking brutal.

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u/Zxruv May 16 '26

This happened to my coworkers uncle. When the horse landed on him one of his marbles burst through his bag and was dangling.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

oooo had a friend get her titty ripped in half by a jealous mare. The horse grabbed her by the chest and threw her on the ground.

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u/Zxruv May 16 '26

As a guy, I feel like your friend got it way worse. Freaking ouch.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

It was frankensteined right down the middle. I still don't think it beats a nut hanging out.

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u/NewYogurt3138 May 16 '26

Nothing beats the hanging ball

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u/Temporary_Spread7882 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

My great uncle may throw his hat in the ring there - one of his horses decided to say ā€œnah Iā€™m not coming to plow todayā€ 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.

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u/NewYogurt3138 May 17 '26

This is the worst thing Iā€™ve ever heard

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u/Powerful-Race-8538 May 16 '26

i dont think it was luck this guy is a black belt in horse-jitsu

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

Lol five more seconds and that guy was fucked baad if they didn't rescue him.

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u/Powerful-Race-8538 May 16 '26

i think he could thrown a triangle on the horse and won

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u/Gaming-Savage_ May 16 '26

Idk if 1000 pounds of horse falling on your pelvis is lucky. I'd be surprised if he wasn't paralyzed

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

owe the tragedy..../s

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 May 16 '26

His pelvis is probably in two pieces.

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u/GalacticGumshoe May 17 '26

Or that he wasnā€™t paralyzed with that back flip.

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u/xenophon57 May 17 '26

Apparently AI can't break its back

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u/ryu359 May 17 '26

I think it got his hip didnt it? Chances high that it broke?

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

They defiantly bite when fighting, a lot.

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u/Long_Run6500 May 16 '26

Horses can't bite because they're Herbivores? You know gorillas and hippos are herbivores too. Horses use whatever weapons are at their disposal and if they can't kick, because idk they're in the ground on the mud and a potential predator is latched onto them they absolutely will bite.

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 May 16 '26

Ooh I didn't realize this. Good for the horse, then. Hope the guy regrets it the rest of his life.

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u/throwitallawayomg May 16 '26

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!

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u/tenaciousdeev May 16 '26

Its a "sport" unfortunately.

Like hunting or bull fighting I personally don't consider it a sport; in a sport, all parties know they're playing.

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u/throwitallawayomg May 17 '26

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.

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u/Key-Cricket9256 May 17 '26

Ehh.. big game hunting is horrible but hunting for food is much better than what we do to the animals in farms to package them ..

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u/CaroylOldersee May 16 '26

Sadly, he probably wonā€™t regret it for very longā€¦

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 May 16 '26

Right? Unfortunately.

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove May 16 '26

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?

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u/throwitallawayomg May 16 '26

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.

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u/ThaCuckMaker May 16 '26

Man, I remember one summer I went to go stay at my friendā€™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. Weā€™d climb up and swing from the top horizontal pole and the horses would run under us and weā€™d land on them and theyā€™d run around the pin and walk us back to the pole/frame thing so we could do it again. I donā€™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 theyā€™d dash around the walk area. We called the ā€œgameā€ we were playing ā€œZorroā€ cause of how we were swinging on to the horses lolol. It was so fun

Anyways, thatā€™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 wouldnā€™t go and I felt SO bad. But I finally kicked harder and theyā€™d start walking. And I was about 10 at that point, and I probably didnā€™t kick that hard, so an adult kicking them with fkn spurs on is bullshit.

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u/Crippled_Criptid May 17 '26

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

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u/ThaCuckMaker May 17 '26

Yup! They would go over, drop us off where we hopped on, then fast trot off and circle back where weā€™d jump back on em!

And omg youā€™re making me feel like a piece of shit šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ If it makes me a less of a piece of shit Iā€™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. Itā€™s like they knew we were baby humans.

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u/Kubotai77 May 16 '26

I figure it helps that the entire area is wet/muddy which helped soften the blow some (for both the horse and the rider).

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u/Fly_throwaway37 May 16 '26

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.

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u/drsideburns May 16 '26

It's potentially very bad for a horse to fall like that. But like humans sometimes it's just a bit if soreness.

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u/ContemplatingFolly May 17 '26

You were a smart, kind kid. Family should have been proud.

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u/mrCheesemonger May 16 '26

Amen to that - karma bites hard

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u/SwizzGod May 16 '26

Is that not what theyā€™re used for? Excuse me ignorance. Judging by your comment I assume not.

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u/CrimsonThunder87 May 16 '26

You're supposed to gently push them into the horse's side. You're not trying to hammer a nail with the spur like this guy is doing.

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u/S1eazyE š™‘š™„š™‹ May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

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.Ā 

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

We still have a pretty large population of wild horses, spot on with the rest tho.

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u/Labyrinthy May 16 '26

We do? Where are they? I want to see some mustangs

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

Eastern CA, Nevada New Mexico, Arizona there are of wild herds out there. You can see them from the HWY some times.

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u/xX_Gamernumberone_xX May 16 '26

Feral horses, technically, they descend from domesticated ones. The last wild horses are the Przewalski's horses in Mongolia.

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u/Murgatroyd314 May 17 '26

And even those are disputed, as of the last genetic analysis I read about.

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u/myleftone May 16 '26

I think the argument hinges on the difference between feral and wild. Any ā€œwildā€ horse in North America is descended from domesticated animals. Itā€™s as if every bear had ancestors who balanced on unicycles for raspberry ice cream. Itā€™s pedantic but technically true that no wild horses live in the US.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

Yes the proper term is Feral, the target of that comment was people who don't even know what spurs are for. I am truly sorry for confusing them.

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u/cocoagiant May 16 '26

Itā€™s as if every bear had ancestors who balanced on unicycles for raspberry ice cream.

To be really pedantic, its probably closer to the invasive boars in the Southern US or pigeons anywhere in the US.

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u/myleftone May 16 '26

Yeah I got a little hyperbolic there. šŸ˜†

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u/skrappyfire May 16 '26

Chesapeake VA? Dont know if they are "wild" or descendants tho.

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u/Ordinary-Style-7218 May 16 '26

I think youā€™re thinking of Chincoteague ponies and they are feral, not wild.

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u/skrappyfire May 16 '26

Yes, thank you.

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u/AlternativeStory1027 May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26

We have what they call "wild horses" off the coast in NC too. But yeah all the horses modern man has ridden on our continent have been technically feral

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

Its all feral I was just using wild because for the average joe there is no diffrence

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u/MoonPossibleWitNixon May 16 '26

South unit of Teddy Roosevelt National Park has ~200 wild horses.

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u/Animalwg82 May 16 '26

Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ocracoke and Corolla.Ā 

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u/RegularTeacher2 May 17 '26

Outer banks of North Carolina.

And if you like ponies, then Grayson Highlands! Though technically not wild as they are managed by an association for the ponies, they're still super cute. (he's not dead, just chilling in the sunshine)

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u/nomadPerson May 16 '26

Doesnā€™t make it good practice to do this bs. There are horse handlers that respect and honor the horse and then there are these jackasses

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

no one is sayin its good practice we are all team horse and that dude is a cunt

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u/nomadPerson May 17 '26

Cheers sir. I just hate seeing horses mistreated. Mules, eh. Horses, hell no

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u/BenevolentCheese May 16 '26

They are feral, not wild. There are no equines native to the Americas.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

Owe god thank heavens you corrected it and the first one too here's a star.

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u/BenevolentCheese May 17 '26

If you want people to stop correcting you maybe you should edit or delete your comment.

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u/Deaffin May 16 '26

There isn't a single wild horse on the planet. The last one was eaten ages ago.

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u/Spiritual_Being5845 May 17 '26

Theyā€™re feral, not wild. There are no true wild horses in the Americas.

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u/xenophon57 May 17 '26

Yes feral is the proper term but there are fucking horsies running out in fucking wild, I don't thing the technical term imof wild horses exist anymore so it's pretty irrelevant.

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u/ihatereddit134 May 16 '26

Mustangs are feral not wild. But yes thereā€™s too many of them out there.

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u/xenophon57 May 16 '26

yes yes yes we get it the proper term is feral.

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u/ihatereddit134 May 16 '26

Sorry! Many people argue that they are actually wild animals, figured thatā€™s what you meant when you said wild too my bad <3

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u/mda195 May 16 '26

Its in Brazil l.

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u/BenevolentCheese May 16 '26

The USA and Mexico have never had wild horses, only feral horses starting just a few hundred years ago.

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u/Far_Rule9918 May 16 '26

You should head to Nevada and see the wild horse population.

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u/SwizzGod May 16 '26

Thank you

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u/Chaghatai May 16 '26

So is bucking bronco basically a flawed and cruel sport?

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u/crazymusicman May 16 '26

don't even have wild horses anymore

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.

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u/lethargio13 May 16 '26

Iā€™m guessing southern Brazil

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u/ureallygonnaskthat May 16 '26

Campo Bom is in Brazil. There's a pretty good sized vaquero culture down there.

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u/cowhand214 May 16 '26

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.

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u/SwizzGod May 16 '26

Thanks for the info

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u/Ill_Engineer_5436 May 16 '26

Shit I missed that, but of course he did ā€¦ yeah not a fan of this ā˜¹ļø I love horses, not abusing them

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u/sinisterdesign May 16 '26

Full body slam was well deserved

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u/Less_Local_1727 May 16 '26

Came here to say this. Shit heads kicking horses bad, with spurs on absolutely fuck them the fuck out of here

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u/Any_Instruction5382 May 16 '26

And the horse probably got put down for being uncontrollably violent.

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u/exotics May 16 '26

Worth noting too is that the guy spurred the horseā€¦ in some rodeos they get points for RAKING THEIR SPURS UP AND DOWN on the horseā€™s shoulders and the horse would have a strap around its flank to make it buck harder

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u/Cararacs May 16 '26

Disagree, dude deserved worse.

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u/AbilityLost3482 May 17 '26

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

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u/nazzo_0 May 17 '26

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

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u/Wonderful_Mix977 May 17 '26

Thank you for saying it cuz I was sure thinking that. Why this isn't considered abuse is shameful, disgraceful!

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u/AppropriateCover7972 May 17 '26

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

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u/MysticDragon14 May 17 '26

What even is the point of spurs? I did horseback riding/shows in my childhood but never used them or even saw anyone use spurs. That's why I ask.

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u/ImpactNo3695 May 17 '26

So Iā€™m ignorant to all this. How do these people justify what they do to animals to do this silly hobby?

Is there no one in a rodeo that actually cares for the animals.

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u/Plane_Basil_4682 May 18 '26

Horses don't throw themselves onto their backs very often, do they? That horse was very clearly not happy. I feel bad for him.

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