Do you all realize this is the Tabloid of the horse world?

[La Gringa]

Everyday there is a new "shock" thread, a new horse killed in action, tortured, ravaging the countryside...

The National Enquirer or Star of Equines?

:lol::lol::lol:

Where do you all find this stuff?

[MistyBlue]

I'm waiting to see the thread:
I Bred My Mare To An Alien Elvis And She Foaled A Bigfoot! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Then it would be the National Enquirer. :winkgrin:

[TBMaggie]

I'm waiting to see the thread:
I Bred My Mare To An Alien Elvis And She Foaled A Bigfoot! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Then it would be the National Enquirer. :winkgrin:

The National Enquirer used to be filled with just such stories (really!)....more than the 'Oprah left me at the alter' stuff in there now.

**this, according to my father, who only subscribed to NE for the 'animal stories.':lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[CosMonster]

Weekly World News was where it was at, IMO. Too bad they shut down. :( I would like to see COTH become more like that...after awhile, the slaughter and NH threads become so predictable. :lol:

[La Gringa]

Newsflash:

Pat Parelli and his Gypsy Vanner attended a Big Lick TWH show. After removing the chains and pads, he proceeded to gallop around the grounds and the arena jumping everything in sight including picnic tables, chairs, and golf carts while singing the star spangled banner... with no helmet, bridle, or saddle.

Meanwhile outside in the warm up ring.... three women, a midget, and a man with a huge beer gut were seen torturing a horse while it was preparing for the next class. They were attempting to get the horse to jump over PETA protestors while shocking it with a remote control device..

Then... in the Barns, somebody yelled CRAZY HORSE LOOSE over the PA, Run for your lives.... several minutes later something resembling a horse, hony, or donkey ran out of the barn with it's teeth bared. It ran into the ring bit Pat Parelli on the A$$ and proceeded to parade around the ring with a piece of ripped jeans from Parelli's Wranglers hanging from it's mouth..

Someone outside said... get a gun... get a gun....

Parelli said NOOOOOO get the Carrot Stick, Get the Carrot Stick...

A British man appeared saying, YOU AMERICANS ARE BLOODY CRAZY, Damn Yanks... you can't get anything right....

The next day a heated debate on the BB's recounted the event's activites, eventually declaring it all a hoax, the poster a liar, while starting to get the book deal rights in order ... you know just in case...


BTW, Don't tell PETA...

Just an average day on Outside Course on COTH.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[SarahandSam]

...the next day, the ripped piece of material from Parelli's @$$ was being sold on eBay with bids starting at $5000....

[La Gringa]

then....

from the ebay money the person appeared on Oprah recounting the story. A book followed and a tv movie on Lifetime TV.

People around the world were shocked by the graphic detail and conditions of the event..

Horse owners around the world were put on notice, control your horses or ELSE!

[La Gringa]

Coming up...

Horse that Walks on Water, is it the new Horse Jesus? Will he save us all?

Stay tuned....

[La Gringa]

My point of this is..

Why are people so insistant on posting all these Sensational Headliner shock threads?

If a thread involved helping a horse in need or something fine..

to just broadcast horrifying news, horrifying slideshows, or something... what is the point?

If we want to look at that stuff all we have to do is Google horrific falls, horrific accidents, race horse dies.

Really people... it's getting really OLD.

Ok I will get off my soapbox now.

:sigh:

[WorthTheWait95]

My point of this is..

Why are people so insistant on posting all these Sensational Headliner shock threads?

If a thread involved helping a horse in need or something fine..

to just broadcast horrifying news, horrifying slideshows, or something... what is the point?

If we want to look at that stuff all we have to do is Google horrific falls, horrific accidents, race horse dies.

Really people... it's getting really OLD.

Ok I will get off my soapbox now.

:sigh:

To play devil's advocate you certainly don't have to open the threads ;).

[La Gringa]

To play devil's advocate you certainly don't have to open the threads ;).

I don't for the most part. It's just really apparant on here that there are many posters that feel it is their obligation to notify all of us on COTH that horrifying terrible things are occuring every day.

It's like they scour the web and newspapers so they can get a juicy thread to post on here.

I think THAT is the point of these.

I guess it's up to the mods not me to regulate it...

I am just sick of reading the headlines. They are bad enough!

:eek:

[Long Spot]

But La Gringa, I thought I saw you involved in one such tread recently, saying we didn't have the right to judge it.

So am I to believe whats in the tabloids I see at the grocery counter with out judging for myself? I guess a man really did give birth to a baby with two heads then. Who knew?

[La Gringa]

But La Gringa, I thought I saw you involved in one such tread recently, saying we didn't have the right to judge it.

So am I to believe whats in the tabloids I see at the grocery counter with out judging for myself? I guess a man really did give birth to a baby with two heads then. Who knew?

Yes in the horse euthing one. I understand this is a place for these topics.

It's really quite apparent though that a lot of people are just trying to get a juicy controversial thread going..

That's fine too I guess.

I'm not a moderator and really shouldn't judge at all...

Freedom of speech is after all an American way of life.

Tabloids are legal. LOL

Movie deals and Ebay is too. Something for everybody... :lol: It's how Fox News makes its living!

Go for it... I guess it in the end is entertainment for a certain audience.

[Equibrit]

The sensationalism is here because there is an audience for it - DUH !

Answer - just don't go there.

[wehrlegirl]

Newsflash:

Pat Parelli and his Gypsy Vanner attended a Big Lick TWH show. After removing the chains and pads, he proceeded to gallop around the grounds and the arena jumping everything in sight including picnic tables, chairs, and golf carts while singing the star spangled banner... with no helmet, bridle, or saddle.

Meanwhile outside in the warm up ring.... three women, a midget, and a man with a huge beer gut were seen torturing a horse while it was preparing for the next class. They were attempting to get the horse to jump over PETA protestors while shocking it with a remote control device..

Then... in the Barns, somebody yelled CRAZY HORSE LOOSE over the PA, Run for your lives.... several minutes later something resembling a horse, hony, or donkey ran out of the barn with it's teeth bared. It ran into the ring bit Pat Parelli on the A$$ and proceeded to parade around the ring with a piece of ripped jeans from Parelli's Wranglers hanging from it's mouth..

Someone outside said... get a gun... get a gun....

Parelli said NOOOOOO get the Carrot Stick, Get the Carrot Stick...

A British man appeared saying, YOU AMERICANS ARE BLOODY CRAZY, Damn Yanks... you can't get anything right....

The next day a heated debate on the BB's recounted the event's activites, eventually declaring it all a hoax, the poster a liar, while starting to get the book deal rights in order ... you know just in case...


BTW, Don't tell PETA...

Just an average day on Outside Course on COTH.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Im sorry-- that was the funniest thing Ive read in a long time-- made my night:D:D:D:D:D

[La Gringa]

Yeah I was just shooting off at the mouth after some pretty amazing, horrific threads lately.

I guess it's just COTH, and it's the reason I don't post on here so often anymore.

[dghunter]

I know that some people do like reading the stories so they do have a place here. But there has been a lot of sad news lately. I don't even open it (I cried just watching the trailer about Royal Kaliber over on the H/J forum! :eek:) But as long as there are people to read it, it will be posted. Same goes for the tabloids in the grocery store. (But aren't some of them so fun to read while you're standing in line? :lol:)

[Glimmerglass]

I'm waiting to see the thread:
I Bred My Mare To An Alien Elvis And She Foaled A Bigfoot! :eek: :eek: :eek:

You know that would rage for pages on the Breeding Forum with more experts claiming to know the bloodlines and such. It would be one white hot source of debate :D

[Transplant]

Yeah, there are a lot of sensationalist threads lately. I'm a re-rider with some confidence issues so the tragic threads are not for me. I like to read more uplifting stories and they are there, but sometimes they get bumped to the second page quickly so they're not as noticeable.

[Tamara in TN]

Everyday there is a new "shock" thread, a new horse killed in action, tortured, ravaging the countryside...

The National Enquirer or Star of Equines?

:lol::lol::lol:

Where do you all find this stuff?

it was Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in BLack" who said something like
"This is the news" when picking up the tabloid...:lol: I think of it more like TMZ than anything else...

best

[MistyBlue]

At least with many of the sensationalist threads/news...we learn a bit. News travels faster online. Reading about ____ amount of horses getting injured or killed makes some of us a tad bit more aware and watching out for similar or other things. Tack theft? Probably a good idea to start locking your tack up. (I don't at this time) How to euth a psychotic horse? Well, I'll probably never have to deal with that. At least I hope I don't. But I did learn more about how things are done differently in England vs here. Horses tortured? Maybe keeping a closer eye on your area, being more vigilant about reporting stuff, improving your barn security, etc.
Because if these things weren't as well known...how many of us would hear a single story and think, "Humph...like that's ever going to happen again!" Maybe more often than we care to think about.

[tradewind]

It is simply human nature to be drawn to sensationalism. That is why rags like the Enquirer etc sell soooo many mags. Horse people are no different. While I like to think that that is not my cup of tea, I have been known on occasion to thumb through an Enquirer in the check out line and giggle all the while. I am sure that is why alot of those types threads get so much attention here,

[monstrpony]

I guess it's just COTH

Or perhaps just the natural evolution of electronic bulletin boards

and it's the reason I don't post on here so often anymore.

And this is the sad consequence of it. We've recently seen a lot less of some very helpful and fun posters.

I agree, the sensationalism has gotten *quite* old of late :(

[talkofthetown]

At least with many of the sensationalist threads/news...we learn a bit. News travels faster online. Reading about ____ amount of horses getting injured or killed makes some of us a tad bit more aware and watching out for similar or other things. Tack theft? Probably a good idea to start locking your tack up. (I don't at this time) How to euth a psychotic horse? Well, I'll probably never have to deal with that. At least I hope I don't. But I did learn more about how things are done differently in England vs here. Horses tortured? Maybe keeping a closer eye on your area, being more vigilant about reporting stuff, improving your barn security, etc.
Because if these things weren't as well known...how many of us would hear a single story and think, "Humph...like that's ever going to happen again!" Maybe more often than we care to think about.

Agreed. Along the same lines of "Oh yeah, that happens to other people, thousands of miles away. It can't happen here, at home, to me!"

[Equinoxfox]

AMEN TO THAT SIST'A..... THIS IS ONE TRUE GOSSIP RAG....;)

[caradino]

Weekly World News was where it was at, IMO. Too bad they shut down. :( I would like to see COTH become more like that...after awhile, the slaughter and NH threads become so predictable. :lol:

i also LOVED Weekly World News!!!

WHERE AM I GOING TO GET UPDATES ON BATBOY NOW?

[La Gringa]

Most of the time I find threads that actually lift my spirits on here. There are some very funny posts.

I guess in the last week or so it's been just a lot of doom and gloom.

With the climate of economy right now and doom and gloom everywhere, maybe I am over sensitive to it right now too.

I do learn stuff on Coth, and with the tack theft and stuff. that is a good reminder to be more watchful..

They have had a rash of crime even around Middleburg lately, robberies and girls attacked nearby.. so even out here we are vulnerable.

I do however enjoy the crazy threads about Parelli, TWH stuff, and the occasional whacko thread like Crazed horses doing England. That one was over the top and did make me laugh...although it really was serious.. and kind of unbelieveable that a horse would do that. I guess anything is possible though.

TMZ is over the top, it thrives on this crap. People do read it too.. after all they broke the story of the Rihanna beating..

Alien horses spawn of Elvis though.. that I am still waiting for! :eek:

[Trevelyan96]

I look at as the necessary evil of an open society. Our most prized privilige is our freedom of access to information. What some do with it can be either regrettable or laudable, but always keep in mind that the overall concept is the most important.

Mostly, I dont bother to open or post in a thread that looks like sensationalism, but I might scan through it to see if there is useful information, like the name of a local hoarder/abuser, just so I'll know if there's someone around that I need to avoid and warn people I know to avoid as well.

[Calamber]

Not sure what you are referring to about sensationalism. I suppose seeing the butchering thread from Miami could be considered sensationalism or maybe the story about the starved thrown away racehorse but if it were going on in your backyard, would you have a different attitude? Oh wait, there was one of those situations in your backyard with Dennis Danley. All is not sweetness and light these days and it would be better if a whole lot of people took off the rose colored glasses and took stock of the reality but.... no one can make ya!

I really appreciate the COTH bulletin board for it's open handed way of dealing with the totality of that which affects horse owners, but I am the type of person who just does not open the thread if I do not want to go into the details. If there seem to be alot of sad things going on in the world, well, that is the world right now. If you would prefer to play Pollyanna you are probably in the wrong place. You could always try Town and Country magazine, or that Loudoun glitzy magazine with all the feel good stories and pictures of fancy homes and such. :cool:

[twofatponies]

It is simply human nature to be drawn to sensationalism. That is why rags like the Enquirer etc sell soooo many mags. Horse people are no different. While I like to think that that is not my cup of tea, I have been known on occasion to thumb through an Enquirer in the check out line and giggle all the while. I am sure that is why alot of those types threads get so much attention here,

Not just human - baboons apparently flock to the scene of any baboon fight, despite the fact that the loser of the fight is likely to run into the crowd and start beating on the nearest weakest baboon he can find, to vent his frustration at losing...

;D

[La Gringa]

Not sure what you are referring to about sensationalism. I suppose seeing the butchering thread from Miami could be considered sensationalism or maybe the story about the starved thrown away racehorse but if it were going on in your backyard, would you have a different attitude? Oh wait, there was one of those situations in your backyard with Dennis Danley. All is not sweetness and light these days and it would be better if a whole lot of people took off the rose colored glasses and took stock of the reality but.... no one can make ya!

I really appreciate the COTH bulletin board for it's open handed way of dealing with the totality of that which affects horse owners, but I am the type of person who just does not open the thread if I do not want to go into the details. If there seem to be alot of sad things going on in the world, well, that is the world right now. If you would prefer to play Pollyanna you are probably in the wrong place. You could always try Town and Country magazine, or that Loudoun glitzy magazine with all the feel good stories and pictures of fancy homes and such. :cool:

If you read my posts here, you would see why I am overly sensitive to this right now.

I lost my job, am losing my house, and probably selling most of what I own, including horses...

So, no rose colored glasses for me honey... just because I live in Middleburg, doesn't make me a Mellon.

Some of the threads on here are meant to get people riled up. It's fun and entertaining afterall.. if it weren't there wouldn't be such a market for trash mags.

I don't read glitzy mags.. I hate plastic people and stuff like that...

So take your post and shove it! :winkgrin: