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AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  When you read the headline you’re thinking the parachute didn’t open, but this raises the possibility that it just had a heart attack.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think the problem may have been that a horse doesn’t know how to pull the cord to deploy the parachute. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

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  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh, no, I think based on other articles the horse died of other causes. But the consensus amongst people I know is that this was just fucked up animal torture on some level.

    Like, I’m fine if the horse was also fine and seemed into skydiving. I just have zero evidence of that.

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  • LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the story of engineering students who wanted to test their parachute on the bunny mascot of their department. They threw the poor lagomorph from the top of a building.

    The parachute held, the lil guy’s heart did not.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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• thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m sure there’s probably one horse somewhere who would actually enjoy skydiving, but I don’t see an ethical way to find said horse.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Same with any activity really

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Of course there is! Just ask him!

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• scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s no way that this is actually real right??

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s from clickhole iirc

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    • TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Here’s the article.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lol

        And someday soon, once we’ve cleaned off and done some troubleshooting on the prototype horse parachute God Himself revealed to us in a vision,

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• SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Horses do not get used to unfamiliar environments. They have an environment they like and anything else kinda stresses them out. They’re big dumb skittish animals that long for quiet open fields of grass with nice firm rocky soil.

  So yeah, taking a horse and throwing it on an aircraft would spook the bajesus out of it. Throwing it off again would probably scare it to death, if the landing, however gentle, doesn’t kill it

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  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m hoping that this is The Daily Mash or The Onion or something….it doesn’t even look like horses like it on roads.

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s satire yeah.

      And they don’t! But they’ll put up with it if whoever the horse in charge is says it’s ok.

      To note, the horse in charge is very likely the guy on the horse’s back. The horse does not seem to be confused by this arrangement.

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