A woman who was cleared of cruelty to one of her horses has said that the damage caused by a “trial by social media” is “irreversible” and that she received hand-delivered death threats because of the incident.Twitter (I refuse to call it 'X') can now arrange for your menacing post to be hand-delivered...! Truly, we live in an age of wonders!
You know, if I'd avoided a jail term for kicking and punching one of my pets in a fit of temper, because a jury had returned one of those baffling verdicts that they can sometimes be prone to, I'd want to hide away and shun the limelight until everyone forgot.
But of course, I'd never ever do what this woman did in the first place...
She said: “It is profoundly troubling that, in this digital age, misinformation can spread like wildfire, leading to premature judgments and jeopardising the lives and careers of innocent individuals.
“A snippet of video was taken out of context, and manipulated to paint a picture of me that is entirely at odds with who I am.”
No, it showed what it showed, and your real issue isn't that it showed that. It's that it showed quite the opposite.
The jury didn't buy the offence, but that video - and the resulting impression people were given of you - is never, ever going away.
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Horses require, and sometimes deserve, physical punishment to keep them under control. We've forgotten that, as they are no longer used in thousands for everyday transport. We'll be going back there soon, if JSO and ULEZ etc get their way. Does the stink of hundreds of tons of horse shit and the methane from horse farts count as air pollution, I wonder.
They are also an essential ingredient - apparently - in Tesco lasagne, but not until they have been appropriately handled. For Halal lasagne the handling is - or so I am told - even more brutal.
More carrots and fewer sticks. Both are required in the training and control of equines. I haven't seen the video and haven't followed this story but I have seen horses out of control. The harm and damage they can cause sometimes requires apparently brutal treatment. Sad but true.
Many years ago, someone I knew had a horse that would run up to people, spin round and kick out with both feet at head height. If you hadn't got out of the way, it would have caved your skull in. The owner had tried everything and couldn't make it stop. The farmer who owned the field that they kept the horse in was an old boy, probably in his seventies or eighties, who had been a ploughman with horses. He walked into the field carrying a fence post that was taller than him. As the horse spun around he hit it on the arse with the post before it could kick out. I don't know who was more shocked, the horse, or the owner who was about to burst into tears. The old guy said to always go to it with something for it to eat, as the only other animal to feed it would have been it's mother, and to keep the post handy, just in case.
I always liked the story about the racehorse that behaved particularly badly at the Grand National, and some commentator opined that the next time it passed the finishing post it would be inside a greyhound. Nodding to the first poster, it might still be in a horse race, but it would be inside a jockey!
Errant wives just need a slap to keep them in line as well like they did in the old days. This stupid trout needs a good kicking and the horse will probably do it next time after being attacked.
"Horses require, and sometimes deserve, physical punishment to keep them under control. "
No problem with that, but this was AFTER the fact of it being out of control. This was revenge, pure and simple, on an animal that can't link its misbehaviour with the beating.
"The harm and damage they can cause sometimes requires apparently brutal treatment."
Agreed, but this wasn't that.
"The old guy said to always go to it with something for it to eat, as the only other animal to feed it would have been it's mother, and to keep the post handy, just in case."
I'd have bought a budgie instead!
"Nodding to the first poster, it might still be in a horse race, but it would be inside a jockey!"
🤣
"This stupid trout needs a good kicking and the horse will probably do it next time after being attacked."
It would be karma, wouldn't it?
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