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They're at it again...

I don't know quite what's going on in the world of the horse, but now...

Horse gets head stuck in tree.

It does not specify whether the horse had been drinking or not. But I ask you, how else does something like that happen other than the horse drunkenly showing off to his mates eh?

Oh, and the heading gets the imagination going doesn't it? 'Chainsaw relief for tree-trapped horse'.

'Chainsaw relief'? Is that like hand relief only for really extreme masochists?

And then there's the owner, who was obviously stressed and upset to see his beloved animal suffering.

So much so, he rushed to the aid of the stricken beast, pausing only to go home, pick up his camera, charge up the battery, run back and take several photographs.

"I don't know what possessed me to get the camera as well." he said, before perhaps giving a tiny hint to the answer with...

"We've been on Fox News," said Mr Harschbarger. "My friends are asking me how it feels to be a celebrity."

What could have possessed him indeed?

In fact, when he tries to explain how it happens, the plot thickens...

I think she was just being curious and stuck her head in there. Then her hoof might have slipped on the wood and she fell backwards and got her head wedged,' he speculated.

Is it just me or does this have the ring of the classic Met Police's 'he fell down the stairs yer honour' to it?

So let's scrap the horse on the lash theorem. Here's another idea, the bloke fancies a bit of publicity for his, no doubt, forthcoming range of domestic chainsaws, shoves his horse into a tree and gets snapping.

Occam's razor strikes again.

posted by Peter The Great @ 8:32 PM