Discarded Horse

21 responses to “Discarded Horse”

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   msamaclean ©

   Oct 10, 2011 at 4:38 am

   That’s just plain weird! Looks like an equine crash dummy…;-/

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   solerena

   Oct 10, 2011 at 4:56 am

   Looks like some puzzle…capricious horse:)

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   Broken Toy Shop

   Oct 10, 2011 at 5:01 am

   Awesome.

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Oct 10, 2011 at 6:43 am

   Poor guy, he just wanted so much to be a real horse that he ran away from the circus carousel to go to the country and mingle among the real horses. Unfortunately, without little children to ride him each day, his energy waned and he fell into the ditch lifeless. He needs a proper burial!

   This is a beautiful composition!

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   flytrue2

   Oct 10, 2011 at 8:34 am

   "After nine days, I let the horse run free cause the desert had turned to sea…" ~A horse with no name. sung by America

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   -fCh-

   Oct 10, 2011 at 2:34 pm

   to (t)each a lesson

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7. 

   rwoodworkr

   Oct 10, 2011 at 8:33 pm

   You can lead a mechanical horse to water, but without a proper digestive system, you can’t make him drink.

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   Pieces of Eye

   Oct 10, 2011 at 8:47 pm

   It’s a mannequine! Hehe sorry.

   I’ve heard of them used for large animal rescue practice.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 10, 2011 at 9:52 pm

   and all kinds of stunts…
   

   and, um, other stuff

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    jitze

    Oct 10, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    If this is close to where you live Steve, (I think I recognize the gully) it is a dummy used for training our Fire Dept in "large animal rescue". We have recently added training and equipment to deal with situations like this, but prefer to avoid practicing on the real thing which can be unnecessarily risky to rescuer and rescuee… Upto now, our firefighters have been confronted with a couple of incidents for which neither their training nor their equipment was as good as we could have wished. (How would you get a panicky horse out of a swimming pool?)

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    jurvetson

    Oct 10, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    Good to know! Horse in pool – what a visual.

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12. 

    Wonderlane

    Oct 11, 2011 at 1:26 am

    dead horse pass

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13. 

    msamaclean ©

    Oct 11, 2011 at 1:38 am

    Well, I was close!

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    angry shock

    Oct 11, 2011 at 2:24 am

    And I wonder How would you REMOVE a DUMMY horse out of a HIKING AREA UNLESS you physically take it with you?

    I thought you were lot better than us, pollution and waste wise… the explanation that ii is a dummy doesn’t make up for the facts that it’s dump left down there…

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    jurvetson

    Oct 11, 2011 at 2:39 am

    Oh, I think it’s there for tomorrow’s practice. They have been at it for several days now.

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16. 

    Jim Rees

    Oct 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    So is it robotic, for that realistic training experience?

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17. 

    angry shock

    Oct 11, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    uhm… I don’t know… it looks discarded, as you actually name the pic! 😉

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18. 

    Broken Toy Shop

    Oct 11, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    A horse that has rolled on to it’s back and is unable to right itself is very hard to rescue. Sedatives and muscles is the way to go.

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    jurvetson

    Oct 12, 2011 at 4:45 am

    Not to worry – they got her out. No horse dummy there today.

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20. 

    anoldent

    Oct 24, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    Pinocchio’s horse!

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21. 

    Fabio Rage

    Dec 13, 2011 at 1:12 am

    Very unique shot!

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