Today, I was putting my horse away into her pasture, when I slipped in the mud. In a haisty attempt to support myself, I grabbed the electric fence in on hand, and my horse with the other. The shock from the fence traveled through me to her, sending her running and leaving me with 2 broken teeth. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while letting horses out to switch pasture, one ran at me, sending me through the electric fence and into a mud puddle. Wrapped in electric fence, I sat in that electric mud puddle, screaming every time it shocked me. Help arrived, once they'd had a good long laugh. FML
Today, I broke my wrist when I got into a disagreement with a horse. FML
Today, I was leaning over a fence in a pasture to get a closer look at something. Nobody warned my nuts that it was an electric fence. FML
Today, our electric horse fence broke. I turned it off so I could fix it. As I was grabbing the fence, my brother thought it would be hilarious to turn the fence back on. FML
Today, while riding a massive draft horse, the horse thought it would be fun to walk under a very low apple tree that sat level with his back. A branch hit me and made me fall off onto a coil of barbed wire, twisting my ankle in the process. FML
Today, I was riding a new horse when a lawnmower starting up spooked her. She jumped straight up in the air and I landed directly on the saddle horn. I can't walk or feel anything between my legs. FML
Today, I was riding my bike to the local grocery store to pick up some supplies for dinner. On the way down, traveling down a hill, I hit a drain with no lid. I went to grab hold of the nearest object to soften my fall. That nearest object was a barbed wire fence. FML
Today, my dogs broke through our electric fence, one of whom managed to get his collar off. I picked it up and, without thinking, went across the fence line. I screamed like a chihuahua being run over by a bulldozer. FML
Today, I was sitting on a fence watching a friend play soccer. He accidentally kicked the ball at my face and made me fall off the fence into mud. I laughed it off and got back on the fence. Two seconds later he did the same exact thing. I fell wrong and slammed my face into the fence. Pain. FML
Today, my idiot horse decided to grab a mouthful of stinging nettles while I was riding him. He panicked at the burning sensation in his mouth and bucked me off. Don't worry, though, my fall was cushioned, by the nettles. FML
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xiamcanadianx 0
I've done that before (minus the broken teeth). And anybody who is ignorant enough to think that electric fences are cruel, think again. They prevent the horses from ploughing through the wooden fence which often causes serious and sometimes fatal damage. The electric fence is only a small shock (like a static shock) and they rarely touch it. It protects them from serious injury. Accidents happen people, chill out.
Twinklestar 0
That's a pretty major FYL. Electrocuted and kicked in the teeth by a horse. And probably muddied. Ouch =(
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Comments (161)
Unit_1004 0
My first thought was that this was all one big innuendo.
azure8787 0
Yea, except for the fact that electricity passing from one arm out the other would pass through your chest and stop your heart, I believe you. For all I know you could be writing this from hell.
angel_devil_gurl 0
why the **** do you have an electric fence for your horse? that's kind of unnecessary.
Horseshit 0
I've done the same thing, I leaned over the fence to pet my horse and grabbed the wire by accident. He did not like that.
Keedia001 0
really some of you people are that stupid there are so many things that could have happened and were you there to see it? No, so stop making stupid comments on how she should be dead. I have personally touched a electric fence while going to get my horse out of pasture and i'm still here and alive. You could die yes, but that also depends on the voltage and clearly it wasn't that high. #87 you do not know her life and therefore you have no right to say that. I have a horse but i have a ****** up life. I was verbally and physically abused but i have a horse so dont tell me her life isnt fml worthy just because she has a horse. who are you to judge?
oxstormyxo 0
k, honestly, STFU, unless you have experience dont say stupid stuff lile thats impossible, you have to use electric fences for horses or theyll run rght through the fence, and they spook so easily and have no control over themselves when they do, so this is probably very true
goldenferret 0
You're extremely lucky the shock didn't travel through your heart and give you a heart attack. The worst thing you can do when being shocked on one side is to touch something with the other side. Btw, voltage has nothing to do with this. Current is the only factor when deciding whether or not you'll die from an electric shock.
kNightmare9 0
Had to comment this, yes it is completly possible, yes she would be alive, yes it most deifnatly would travel to the horse, and yes even if the horse kicked her in the face which is unlikely, she would still be alive unless some extreme circumstance happend where the horse was trapped. Why do I know this for a fact? I train horses. They spook, it happens, the horse probably jumped away when the shock got to them and in doing so pulled the person off balance even more. The only way the horse wouldnt be shocked too was if the person was holding onto a metal free lead rope and not touching the horse in any way. Also, an electric fence, is pretty much not strong enough to kill ANYTHING bigger than a rat (if it held on while touching the ground too), still hurts like a bitch when you grab it or fall on it. (to the people that say it's cruel, reports of fence related horse injuries go drasticly lower when it's electric instead of normal where the horse will often to to reach grass outside the pasture, break the wire, get tangled in it, panic and seriously hurt themselves. It is much kinder than barb wire. We used to have a weird horse who liked to lip the fence for the rush, It's not that strong, chill out.)
my_username2313 0
Dude I feel your pain. Electric fences hurt like hell. Similar thing happened to me at my stables.
KallejaKid 0
hahahahaha, aww gewd tymes"P