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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's moved on to another plane.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

they asked him if he wanted to jump. he said, "neigh"

this is a clear case of horse-icide.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

*another plain. Where the grass is greenest

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

You're 5000 candles in the wind...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, so this was a lot funnier than I would have expected. I love absurdist humor and this caught me by surprise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope the horse was alright though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Of course he is! He's with Jeebus now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Someone please feel free to enlighten me, but my horse riding friends say this is pretty fucked up and not something the horse would ever get used to.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When you read the headline you're thinking the parachute didn't open, but this raises the possibility that it just had a heart attack.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

I think the problem may have been that a horse doesn't know how to pull the cord to deploy the parachute. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Oh, no, I think based on other articles the horse died of other causes. But the consensus amongst people I know is that this was just fucked up animal torture on some level.

Like, I'm fine if the horse was also fine and seemed into skydiving. I just have zero evidence of that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the story of engineering students who wanted to test their parachute on the bunny mascot of their department. They threw the poor lagomorph from the top of a building.

The parachute held, the lil guy's heart did not.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm sure there's probably one horse somewhere who would actually enjoy skydiving, but I don't see an ethical way to find said horse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Same with any activity really

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Of course there is! Just ask him!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no way that this is actually real right??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Lol

And someday soon, once we’ve cleaned off and done some troubleshooting on the prototype horse parachute God Himself revealed to us in a vision,

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Horses do not get used to unfamiliar environments. They have an environment they like and anything else kinda stresses them out. They're big dumb skittish animals that long for quiet open fields of grass with nice firm rocky soil.

So yeah, taking a horse and throwing it on an aircraft would spook the bajesus out of it. Throwing it off again would probably scare it to death, if the landing, however gentle, doesn't kill it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m hoping that this is The Daily Mash or The Onion or something….it doesn’t even look like horses like it on roads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

It's satire yeah.

And they don't! But they'll put up with it if whoever the horse in charge is says it's ok.

To note, the horse in charge is very likely the guy on the horse's back. The horse does not seem to be confused by this arrangement.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So is there like canonically a horse heaven?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I think so. There's at least one horse god

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Up in horsey heaven, here's the thing
You trade your legs for angels wings
And once we’ve all said good-bye
You take a running leap and you learn to fly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

so horse angels are just sausages with wings, got it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

He's feeding dogs in heaven now. Also here on earth too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Did they accidentally give him the backpack full of camping supplies instead of the parachute?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No, they changed the pack colour for the camping stuff last time this happened. Unfortunately they forgot to change the pack colour for the portable anvil as well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, ACME did it again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Praise be to Sülde Tngri 🐴🐴🐴

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

"Briefly, but then he fumbled."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Step one, cover horse's eyes and plug ears. Step 2, walk horse onto large airplane. Step 3, get said airplane up into the air. Step 4, run with horse towards the open back end of airplane until the horse exits the vehicle. Step 5... Hold up, did we miss the one step where you would strap that large backpack over there to its back? Hmm. Step 6 purchase second horse, specifically a live one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago