A Polish man is in trouble. The story involves a horse or horses, one of which was found hitched the front axle of his van. Beyond that, the details depend on whom you ask. The Daily Mail version goes like this: 55-year-old lumberjack Leszek Stepien (who might have had a nip of vodka--an officer said he was at twice the legal limit), loaded a stallion and a mare into the back of his son's van to take...
Australian horse owner Jenny Mahoney awoke one day last week to find a strange horse in her pasture. Sadly, this story isn't uncommon. But this one has a twist. "I only have the one, McBeal, so I slowly approached the strange horse, saying 'Steady, easy fella,' " she told the Herald Sun . "It was only when I got right up to it in the dark that I realised it was a life-size, fiberglass horse." The Mahoneys...
Five days after she went missing, Houston mare Miss B turned up at a bus stop, The Houston Chronicle reported . Her owners' friend alerted the family when she saw the mare tied to a metro sign on Tuesday about a half-mile from home. The neighborhood search for Miss B began last Thursday, when the mare, spooked by thunder, bolted from her shed. With neighbors on the lookout, no one's sure where...
A 77-year-old woman from the U.K. died of injuries she sustained when struck by a spooked zebra, a new coroner's report concluded. Eileen Whale was staying at a holiday center in Kenya last September when the pet zebra collided with her, tossing her in the air. She died in February. The BBC News cited a coroner's report of gastrointestinal bleeding and pancreatitis brought about by a series...
Earlier this month we reported on a sad incident on a French beach in which a horse and rider fell into decomposing green algae. Toxic gasses produced by the seaweed killed the horse almost immediately, while the rider was pulled to safety, narrowly avoiding the same fate. Read the story . At right, a photo of the horse, Sir Glitter, provided by his owner/rider. Now an Associated Press report is adding...
