Watch out for that horse!

August 6, 2009 - 10:09 AM by · 1 Comment
Filed under: General, Holidays, Israeliness, Life, Travel 
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Hey, we all know Israel is safe. There’s less likely a chance of anything happening to you here than in any big city anywhere in the world.

But evidently, when you get out of the cities, watch out. The news on Channel 2 last night aired this footage they obtained from a group of tourists on a leisurely drive on a country road in the Galilee.

The tourists began filming with their video camera when three horses came on the highway and began to canter alongside their car. Very cool occurrence, and one worth documenting. But things turned weird when an oncoming car approached the horses head on.

The first two horses weaved out of the car’s path, but the third took it head-on, smashing through its windshield with its hooves before leaping over it and continuing on its way.

Channel 2 reported that the driver suffered minor cuts from smashed glass and the horse was lightly injured.

When checking out the coverage of the incident, I was especially taken with the report by Horse and Hounds magazine (which I had until now thought was a ficticious creation of Hugh Grant’s character in Notting Hill). Their headline? ‘Horse survives after jumping onto oncoming car in Israel’.

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