DE’s First Rule of Survival: If you know nothing about it, don’t try to touch it. Especially if it outweighs you by +/-1000 pounds.
Check out this video and then come back and we will discuss. And laugh. But mostly discuss. HA! Who am I kidding? The laughter will win out.
Thanks Monica for sending this in!
Buddy, you are so freakin lucky that horse didn’t take your arm off! They certainly have the strength to do it! If you think for a second that wasn’t just a warning bite, you’re crazy. And yes, as scary as that was, I do mean just a warning bite. That horse may have clamped down, but he also released when he started to move away. Had he not, your skin would have been torn to shreds (at the very least).
A cruel, sadistic part of me thinks it’s hilarious when someone who obviously knows nothing about horses gets injured due to said ignorance. For whatever reason (could be because of the media’s rampant romanticization of horses as a whole, but I’m just spit-ballin’) people seem to think all horses are tame, sweet, gentle creatures. Ya, even the tame, sweet, gentle ones can kill ya! I recently heard somewhere that the horse industry has the highest rate of accidents that involve hospitalization. Something like 57% of all reported workplace injuries in the horse industry required a trip to the local emergency room. And those people know what they’re doing!!! At least more so than some chump on a bike.
But, you know, I suppose we should thank this guy. Without him we wouldn’t have such an awesome video to point and laugh at today. That cruel, sadistic part of me also feels a teensy bit superior to bike chumps because I have complete control over a massive quadruped who, even when he’s scared shitless, will still avoid stepping on me or even bumping into me, lest he make his alpha angry. 
Grrr, DE tough lol
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BWAHAHAHA! I love that this video got featured here! No one would think of petting a wild boar, but oif course a wild horse could NEVER be dangerous, right? ROTFL!
So much for instinctual self protection. He probably burned his hand on mama’s stove more than once too. The funniest part was the deer in the headlights look on his face! (inserts whiny voice of wounded male ego)
That horse was practically screaming ‘go away’ at the guy, too. BEFORE it bit him.
It makes me sad that because people think that horses are “Romantic” creatures, that this band of wild horses will probably get a bad name from this.
How many people out there are going to go try and pet a moose? Not many. Why? Because everyone knows that moose are dangerous! Do they get a bad rap? no, because people know to give them their space. (well the people with half a brain do).
A wild horse is no different.
If you’re ignorant enough to go try and touch a wild horse (we presume these are wild horses) then you’re probably ignorant enough to go to the media (which he has done posting on youtube) and “tell the world about his harrowing attack by a horse!” thus giving them a bad name.
People, if you just give WILD animals their space, shit like this wouldn’t happen!
…And I’m done. Oy vey!
Hey she warned him more than once, notice he was near a small foal. If he was to dumb to pay attention thats his fault. He was so lucky the horse didnt keep coming and kill him, she wasnt being malicious about it. This is what my hubby said: “Dumbass”
I like your hubby
And if you look at the horse who bit the guy, to me thats a post pregnancy belly so probably her foal – could she have been any more obvious about telling him to get lost!
BAHAHAHAHAHA, this made my day. If you can’t read the body language of the animal you are attempting to pet. Stay away far far away. Ears pinned back & a pissed off facial expression does not mean COME CLOSER… *headshek*
Hey, give the guy some credit…at least he was wearing a helmet !! HAHAHA …very lucky that horses didn’t decide to charge him and run over him. Hey look at all the pretty horsies! Let’s go pet them! HAHAHAHA
OH, btw DE, that study about injuries in the horse industry didn’t include the whole industry, only the racing industry.
Ahh good to know. I just heard it in passing, not really sure where! lol
Wild or not … get a clue. If that horse were a strange dog, she would of been growling and showing her teeth … very clearly warning the guy off. Geesh!
He’s lucky….wild horses are VERY handy with their front feet and they aren’t wanting to shake hands with you either. Looking at the belly, I would not be surprised if she’s not the mother to the foal. Somewhere in the world, I am sure someone has tried to set a small child on the back of a loose horse to give it a pony ride. I have a brother-in-law who puts his face next to every animals he gets near. Doesn’t matter if it’s snapping and growling at him, he just keeps coming closer and closer to it and wants to kiss and hug it….and he’s in his 50′s.
Don’t let him go to the Grand Canyon. He’d probably become one of the people bitten by rock squirrels.
The *thirty people a day* bitten by rock squirrels.
Lol. When I was eight I totally had to catch one of the chipmunks at the National Park. I mean, they ran all over you for bread and everything.
Of course, I was smart enough to make sure I was away from my parents line of vision.
I was also smart enough to let go once the chipmunk dug its teeth in, and realize that I totally asked for it.
Are you kidding – my domesticated riding horses are pretty quick with their front feet and think nothing about going after the dogs with the intent to do harm…
Yep, mine does the same. Will go after dogs, cats, goats, anything he doesn’t think belongs in the pasture!
Anyone remember the little boy who was killed by a doe slashing out with her front leg? It was in a National Park. They were feeding the deer, how kyoot!
This guy is working on a Darwin award!
Years ago, at the Outer Banks, I saw a guy try to sit his child on one of the Corolla wild horses. The horse moved out of there quickly, probably used to silly tourists. At that time, the horses were still roaming in the subdivisions. There were and are signs all over the place to stay at least 50 feet from the wild horses.
I hope this guy wasn’t trying to get a video to impress his horse crazy girlfriend.
I dont think they are wild horses, one has a breeding identification collar on. So this dumbass walked up to someone elses horses, propably on someone elses land and got bit. ***headdesk***
They look somewhat similar to horses I saw in northern Spain. They are owned by someone, as many of them have collars or tags, but they are free to roam the mountains, along with lovely brown cows It’s quite a sight!
If these are the same horses, they aren’t wild, but they don’t seem to be tame either.
NM, just looked at the video again, and they now have a location tag-it’s in Romania, but it’s a similar situation to what I saw in Spain.
Looks like he lucked out and got his arm mustly inbetween the front and back teeth, so he missed getting bit full force by the teeth, more just it’s jaws and just the edges of the teeth. A friend’s stallion got loose and bit one of her mares on the hip, leaving a big hanging flap of muscle. If she wanted to do damage, she sure could have.
My husband mountain bikes, and I sent him this video while he was at work figuring he’d get a laugh out of it. He found it hilarious–he’s spent enough time around horses (thanks to my lifestyle) that he said, “It’s ears were totally pinned–he asked for it.”
I knew a woman who lost the end of a finger to a quick bite from a horse she was unfamiliar with…and no, it was not found/recovered. Unclear whether it was swallowed or not.
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Fail.
Wild???…wouldn’t wild horses have run away? Regardless it was a really stupid thing to do.
Not necessarily. Last fall the husband was out scouting for chukkar on his quad. When he was loading the quad on to the trailer, a small band wandered up to the trailer. The stallion approached him nonchalantly and started sniffing through his stuff. Husband then proceeded to feed him a granola bar.
Wife then proceeded to give husband the business upon seeing cell phone photo evidence of this encounter…
Unfortunately, in hiking/biking areas around here (southern Nevada) it is not uncommon for morons to bring food for the wild horses and burros. So they get somewhat accustomed to humans. The burros are especially unconcerned. While out on a trail ride, I’ve lectured many a tourist that, although they seem friendly, the animal you’re letting your small child try to feed is in fact wild and unpredictable. Usually it’s like lecturing a wall — a dense, thick wall.
He approached a mama, what else did he expect! He’s lucky he got away with a warning bite, rather than bite, stomp, chase, stomp some more. These are domestic horses, simply by the fact that they allowed a human to approach them instead of taking off down that mountain hill thing. Also look at the manes and tails, let alone the coats. These aren’t wild horses. If I found out bikers had come across my land, w/o permission, and touched my horses, w/o permission, someone would be tracked down and have an arm ripped off and them beaten w/ it. Maybe than they would get common sense! I mean common sense should have kicked in instead of ‘Oh pretty ponies! Let’s go pet one! I bet their friendly!’ To bad natural selection didn’t take place…… I mean even the horse had a pissed off and to back off look on it’s face! Not a clear invitation to keep approaching it! *repeated head desk* Than again if natural selection took place all the time when people do stupid crap, no one would be around to keep amusing us….
Got what he deserved. Moron.
I dunno I thought it was a stallion, but could have been a mare…
If this dumb@ss had known anything about horses, he would have seen the warning signs…
And you can see how far away the bikes were, so he had to have walked up, they probably moved off, so then he walked up to them again…
And then WHAM!!
teeee heeeee
Bwaaahhaaaaaahaaaa haaaaa
SO then he goes whinning to his biker buddies and says “Ow, dat horse, she bit me!!”
Geeez thanks for this, makes my day!
A local, very experienced and respected horse trainer got his throat nearly bit out by own of his own stallions a few months back. He had to have his vocal cords and trachea reconstructed, but luckily he’s doing OK now. He went out to feed the stallion and he was worked up because of the nearby mares and grabbed his throat in an instant. Non-horse people don’t realize how dangerous they are.
I’m sorry but if he got bit by his own stallions he’s no that great of a trainer. Having balls is no excuse for dangerous behavior, Letting a stallion get away with dangerous behavior just because he’s a stallion and there were mares around is just plain stupid. i’m sorry, it’s just a huge pet peeve of mine.
He’s lucky the mare didn’t spin and lash out with her hind feet. I’ve seen that happen to a mom and child at Assateague Island. They wanted to “pet the pony” and reached for a foal. They also didn’t realize that the adult pony standing nearby was Mamma and her instincts said KICK instead of BITE those who were “attacking” her baby. The child was lucky, she just got knocked over when her mom got kicked in the thigh and into her. The mom was lucky because she just got a bruised thigh, and not a smashed skull.
Lucky guy. I was picked up by my thumb and shook before the pony let go. Darned digit has never been quite the same but I’ve always had an deep respect for teeth after that. Not knowing the horse, geez, I’ve been leasing a pasture horse for months and I still walk out with high vigilance when the rest of the herd are around.
LOL – I bet he’s real smooth with the ladies, too.
I was bit once in the boob. That hurt like a mofo.
Years ago, when I was a teen working at a Morgan show barn, a man was bitten. I mean, of course, others had been bitten at various instances, but this man was being really stupid.
One particular stallion on the farm, Murphy, was quite territorial while in his stall. He was very well behaved in hand, just quite aggressive while in his stall. His stall was fully barred, so in order to make physical contact with the horse, a person would have to insert an arm.
Anyway, a man was at the farm. I have no idea who he was. He was going from stall to stall, inserting his arm through the stall bars, and patting the horses. Fine. He was told several times not to pet the stallion, that he bites.
The man said “Horses love me!” and proceeded to insert his appendage into the stall of said angry stallion. (I’m chuckling now typing this). Murphy approached the man slowly, ears back, opened his mouth and ever so carefully clamped down on the seeking, extended fingers of the man all horses loved. Hard.
“WAAAAAAAHHHH” The man’s high pitched scream echoed through the barn’s long corridors.
Murphy let go. Thank God. And the man was left his very very bruised fingers and a sore ego (in whichever order you choose).
^—lengthy story. Sorry!!
Gee, wiz! Do you think the pinned ears and the head bobbing were a sign that the horsey wasn’t in the mood for a handshake? Am I evil becuase this made to laugh?
My favourite part is one of the top comments: “A natural response to tight lycra”
Shoot, I was petting a school horse who one second was acting all snuggly and friendly and then–I luckily caught the slight change in attitude, no pinned ears or stink eye, he just sort of braced himself in a way I did not like–proceeded to try to chomp on my thigh as a I jumped back out of reach with an agility I no longer thought I had. Plus, I was picked up nearly got dragged over a fence by my shirt by a horse who was a normally friendly acquaintance at 10–not sure if the was a warning; wasn’t as sharp about those things then. So if even normally friendly horses that know you can be dangerous, I’d be awfully wary about approaching a whole group of strange ones at liberty.
Horse people are idiots
Why are people who love horses so fat?