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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star
I am sorry to pile on, since most comments seem to be against you & I do tend to agree with many things you post. But you mention 'no damage at all' to the earlier crash 30 feet away from the horse. No physical damage, I'm sure. But horses are very sensitive & who knows how long, if even now, the horse has been 'back to normal'? I'm afraid that earlier crash did more damage, if only reputational, than you are accounting for. I'm sorry, it is a good club.
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I actually witnessed that crash. The horse merely looked up from grazing and then went back to grazing. The Polo Grounds guy yelling at the pilot made a bigger commotion from the horse's point of view than the crash did.
I'm from Texas, and worked in a dairy when I was a kid, where I used a horse every day to bring in the cows. I have been around horses much of my life. Working horses like those polo ponies are not the sensitive bundle of nerves city people imagine. That plane could have crashed on his back, and that horse would have likely bucked a couple of times and moved away, thinking it was a bird. That plane couldn't have done more than cut that horse with the prop, even if it had hit him square between the eyes. And the plane was insured, anyway.
Yes, I suppose I agree that the "developers" can do what they want with their property that our homes paid for, even to the point of planting their hobbies in the middle of the Villages and exiling Villagers from using it.
I just don't understand the logic of alienating their benefactors over something so trivial.