It is a Darwin Award kinda justice!
The article wass not specific on how his injuries were received. My assumption was that he was kicked in the stomach by the horse, and that cause the colonic rupture.
I think if that were true, it would have been more specific.
If he were kicked in the stomach, he would have died of a ruptured
spleen or a different internal organ than the colon.
That would depend on whether the hoof caught him on the way up or on the way down.
djm
If you read Cahill’s “How the Irish Saved Civilization” there is a brief mention of an Irish king, whose coronation was accompanied by his “mounting” of a mare, so to speak. I have never quite recovered from that mental image, so this story led me to post this thread, because I reckon others here have read that book.
A horse kick is powerful enough to do that, for sure.
But the saying “hung like a horse” has a whole new image in my mind, now. I think it might have killed a woman, too–assuming this man didn’t die from the kick.
I’d hate to be this man’s family.
“How did your uncle Bob die?”
“Well…”
Good point, Cran. 
djm
It’d be like the Birds and Bees discussion from hell…
“You see, when a man a and a horse love each other very much…”
Has Blackbeer been posting recently?
(I don’t mean to imply that the man who was killed was him, of course, it’s just that when the Pacific northwest and horse farms are mentioned in the same sentence, I naturally think of him…)
True dat. First seven years of my life I spent in Vancover, WA.
Not since May.
I think that he is still in Alaska.
When he was in Washington he was a couple of hundred miles east of the incident.
-I thought I might be first to submit this to the Darwin Awards (darwinawards.com) site for consideration. A search of their archive revealed many before me saw in this the selective elimination of
a potential breeder from the gene pool by stupidity.
FWIW, Enumclaw is a neat place-a former farm town now become bedroom suburb of the Seattle /Tacoma metropolitan area, situated along the west side of the Cascade mountains, the last urban outpost before trekking up Hwy. 410 into the beautiful Cascade mountains. A sugar-lump of a mountain is right on the edge of town, Mt. Pete. Too bad these idiots put a pall of disrepute on the town, and too bad for their animal victims. I am ashamed this is not illegal here. This case has brought it into consideration, however, and I hope my state will soon join civilized dominions in outlawing animal rape.
Do you mean Mt. Peak (or Pinnacle Peak)? There use to be a State Forest Service sign at the gate where the road went up that said Pinnacle Peak. I grew up on that mt., age 8-16. It use to have a lookout tower on it. We had 40 acres ½ way up the mt., behind a locked forest service gate. The King Co. fairgraounds is at the base, near Pete’s Pool. We use to hear the sound of bagpipe bands wafting up the mt. The folks my parents sold the land to still live up there.
I just Googled it. I see the mt is known by three names, including Pete.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/53837_hike10.shtml
I could tell you stories and stories about that mountain when it was still private, and about the people who use to man the lookout tower when I was a kid. I spent my summers up at the tower…just a ½ mile hike from our cabin.
Yeah, bla bla bla, Lorenzo, but what we really want to know is… did ya have any animals? Like a ewe named Mabel or sumthin that always followed you around for some reason? Nyuk.
I don’t mind a little backpressure.
Would you care to reconsider your signature, Tony ?
That might be more than a little! Might…
The only animals we ever saw on the mountain were wild animals. Hope you’re not having a hard time with that! Nyuk!
BTW, we saw a silver wolf up there one day. It came right up to our cabin and stood still for about 5 minutes. We saw a picture of it in the paper a couple days later, dead. Some farmer in the valley below shot it for chasing his sheep. He thought it was a dog. Wolves hadn’t been seen in that area for 50 years or more.
The human was on the receiving end, and died from colonic injuries.
Idiot got what he deserved… justice trumps taste.I > really > don’t think it would have been any better if he were doing the horse instead of the other way around. Either way, the horse was raped.
Catherine the Great surrenders.
Lance, so that’s where I remember that tidbit. Only, I remember it was a stallion, not a mare, FWIW.
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I don’t mind a little backpressure.Would you care to reconsider your signature, Tony big grin ?
Good point, Roger. Maybe until this thread blows over. Anyway, it says a little backpressure and it’s a musical reference, not an equine one.
I just saw a signature on another board: “So many idiots, so little ammo.” I might adopt that one for awhile.
Final point before I say my prayers and turn in: The guy was obviously kicked. How enticing do you think he was to the horse? That would be one perverted horse. This imagery had better not invade my dreams or I’ll be upset with all of you.
Tony
“Enumclaw” looks like something spelled backwards to me. Tried it the other way, and it looked like an Anglo-Saxon word. Made the same amount of sense, too.