Posted on 05/09/2013 8:00:01 PM PDT by Huntress
Hey, they’d been practicing by shooting dogs!
Ditto.
I have horses, and I love them dearly, but I can understand and accept that what the Troopers did was necessary.
They are a handful... and you can’t reason with them.
Sad story.
The trooper and deputies were impatient morons. At two in the morning they could have closed the damn highway for an hour with no serious repercussions to anyone.
Instead of wasting 20 minutes endangering everyone with their ham handed attempts, they could have closed the road and located the owner in the same amount of time.
The owner just needed a bucked of grain, halters and lead ropes and they’d be back in the corral in ten minutes.
Instead, she has very expensive dog food rotting in the median.
My wife and daughter hit a black angus cow at night about ten years ago. Its head came through the windshield between them. They weren’t hurt but the cow didn’t make it. The cops had to shoot it. My daughter won’t eat red meat to this day.
If the police can’t solve a problem with brute force, they’ll find a way to solve the problem with brute force.
Balderdash...you do not understand horses!
Thank you for the excellent tagline. Common sense has become so rare, it is now a super power.
Going with the cops on this one. Terrible tragedy for the horses and owner.
true dat
Bears repeating.
I would have thought it was mandatory to stop all traffic on the Iinterstate highway BEFORE attempting to corral the horses no matter what the final outcome was. It would seem the failure to shutdown the traffic flow immediately upon arrival at the scene endangered the motorists and the horses.
Horses or troopers?
All cops are perfect. There cannot possibly be a circumstance where a cop is the problem waiting for a solution.
ditto - does this mean that it is open season on deer, elk, moose or any other large animal on the highway? Try the “endangering traffic” excuse with the game warden and see how far it gets you. Cop demonstrated no sense and an itchy finger.
[[Theyd been trying to get the horses back onto their property when they say the situation just became too unsafe.]]
Became unsafe? Ya mean fer the horses? obviously so I guess-
People in rural Alaska still turn horses out for the winter. I’ve seen that across Canada also. Nobody I know would shoot horses along a highway, unless they had never been outside urban America and never had the common sense to deal with situations many people see all the time. My friends don’t shoot everything that gets outta place.
Previous to that event, where did she think red meat came from?
And she is OK with eating chicken meat?
where I live the sheriff has contracted local rodeo cowboys on call, who come immediately and rustle them up loose cows or horses.
Good point.
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