I saw it again today, and I wanted to scream at the driver “How the hell can you do this? Are you insane?”
No, it wasn’t bad driving. Or slowness – I’m a horse owner too, and I appreciate why horse trailers have to corner slowly, accelerate slowly, stop slowly. That ol’ debbil inertia and all that.
Nope, what got the blood pressure boiling was seeing a large, shiny horse trailer navigating the narrow roads of my Exurbian town with the side windows open, allowing the horses to stick their heads out.
STICK THEIR HEADS OUT? HELLO?!? DO YOU NOT SEE THAT DUMP TRUCK ROARING TOWARD YOU, FORCED RIGHT UP TO THE CENTER LINE BY PARKED CARS? OR THAT LANDSCAPER’S TRUCK WITH ITS LOAD PROJECTING BEYOND ITS SIDES?
It isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, nor I’m sure the last. I really don’t want to see it when the horses pay the price of the hauler’s stupidity. Watching a horse’s head get smashed to bloody pulp isn’t high on my list of life goals, thankyouverymuch.
What the fuck do these shit-for-brain people think they’re doing?!?
What total idiots! I don’t think you would need to be a practiced horse-trailer-puller (is there such a thing?) to know not to do that…I’m thinking common sense?
Wow, that does beat all. I’ve seen it before, but not on narrow roads, so I never gave it much mind. But we never travel like that - as far as I know, those windows only open all the way to be able to reach in if you have to. And most of the trailers that I’m around that have those sorts of windows also have bars or screens, so those knuckleheads had to specifically open the whole window.
And besides oncoming traffic, who wants an expensive horse down for getting a bee in its eye at 60 mph?
Firstly, I’ve never in my short life heard of a horse’s head becoming an impressionists’ impression of a painting on an oncoming omnibus’ windscreen. Never seems to happen.
Secondly, even given that horses are as thick as three bricks, wouldn’t they see that an oncoming omnibus was approaching and ‘pull their head in’, thereby ducking the potential smack between head and windscreen?
Next, why not let the horse loll his/her tongue out and smell the flowers? As a beast of burdon they carry fat-arsed humans around at the whim and fancy of their intellectual superiors and they deserve a small break. Small risk for a substantial return for the horse’s psyche.
Finally, they are just bloody horses anyway. Potential pet-food and hardly worth the anxiety implied by the OP.
What the hell is your problem Sisyphus’ Stone? Every single time someone posts concern for an animal you go off on one. OK We get it, you don’t like pets just please quit posting your self-riteous bunk in the pet threads.
Sisyphus’ Stone, did someone’s pet shit on your best pair of shoes or something?
It bothers me too when I see horses hanging thier heads out of moving trailers. Mostly I worry about debris hitting them in the face (or the eyes as previously mentioned) at high speeds.
Cowgirl Jules, not all trailers have screens on the windows though ours does. Even so, we always close the section of the windows near the horses’ heads before moving off. I’ve seen people start to leave a show and forget to close up the windows. Sure enough, some horse nose is sticking out before they’ve gone 10 yeards. That’s why we always do a final walk around the trailer and check all the latches, windows, tires, etc. before leaving.
Stone, my goodness! You certainly do enjoy shitting on other folks’ concern for animals, don’t you? What the hell is the source of your antiPETA to the poor creatures? Why do you let this hatred consume you?
Indeed, why waste your time and energy nattering at selfish fools on an Internet message board, when there are starving children in Africa RIGHT NOW who might live if only you’d sell your computer and all your possessions and send the money to them?
Yes, debris damaging an eye is really the more realistic worry here. Certainly far more likely to happen on our semirural roads than the vision of horror I get whenever I see this. But the latest example was smack dab in the center of my small town, where vehicles must often go by each other with only inches to spare.
Whatever the possible consequences, letting horses put their heads outside the protection of a moving trailer is asinine.
