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I am going to ask the same question here. Why do people do STUPID things at a parade???

A women was seriously injured because someone thought it was FUNNY to shoot a horse in the parade with a BB gun. This poor woman could have been killed!! Please tell me what in the sweet name of Jesus, would posses a person to do such a hatefull thing???? Here is the story: Tragedy Strikes At Greenville Parade By Bob Evans VION&HR Everything was going great at the 22nd Annual Country Christmas Parade. The kids both young and older were having a great time and enjoying all the activities. The streets were lined with spectators and the city park was full of vendors and Country Christmas participants. Then towards the end of the parade, something went all wrong. Tragedy hit hard on one of the riders on horseback. One of the horses spooked and threw its rider onto the pavement. Leila Lindsey of High Springs, Florida was thrown from her horse “Blessing” with the horse ending up stepping on her chest and left hand. EMS medical personnel responded while Lindsey's husband Ellis Lindsey tended to his fallen wife. Leila Lindsey was carried by ambulance to an area where Life flight could transfer her to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital to have her injuries cared for. She suffered cuts to her head, bruises on several parts of her body and some broken bones in her left hand. She was put on life support and transferred to the Intensive Care Unit of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. After several tests and CT scans, it was determined by TMH specialists that she suffered no permanent life threatening injuries and she was kept overnight at the hospital for observation and other tests run the next morning. Sunday afternoon December 9th, Lindsey was discharged from the hospital to go home. Members of the Madison County Sheriff's Posse rounded up the loose horse and took it back to the starting point of the parade so it could be loaded on a horse trailer and taken to Emerald Acres Paso Fino Ranch north of Greenville. There relatives of the Lindsey family came up to the ranch Saturday evening and transported all of their horses back home to High Springs, Florida. A special bank account has been set up at Capital City Bank 660 Northeast Santa Fe, High Springs, Florida 32643 to help the family with medical expenses incurred from the accident. If you would like to donate anything to help the family make your checks out to Leila Lindsey and mail them to the bank at the above address. No one really knows what happened, but it is believed that someone fired a BB gun and struck the horse in the neck. No one has been identified as being responsible, but the Madison County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident. At present no charges have been filed against anyone and the Sheriff's Department is asking everyone who was in the area where the incident took place that if they have any information to call the Sheriff's Department. What makes this story so unusual is Lindsey was riding a breed of horse that is known worldwide as a people friendly horse. It's reputation as being the “Rolls Royce” or the “Cadillac” of the horse world and the smoothest riding horse in the world with hardly any bad traits, adds to the theory that someone deliberately spooked the horse. Lindsey was competing in an annual event in the Country Christmas Parade called “Pasos On Parade”. For the past 2 years she and her horse “Blessing” have won the title as being the “Best of the Best” in the competition at Greenville. This proves that both her and the horse and rider were experienced in participating in parades. Both Lindsey and “Blessing” have competed for the past 5 years in the event at Greenville and she has ridden the horse in dozens more parades across the State of Florida without having any problems what-so-ever with the horse. If you would like to send get well cards or letters to Leila Lindsey or her family you can just address and mail them to (Leila Lindsey – P. O. Box 1761 - High Springs, Florida 32655.)

Public Comments

1. Stupidity should be painful!
2. STUPID people do SUPID things!
3. OMG! That's terrible! At least she's Okay, though. Who in thier right minds would shoot an inocent little horse? It's terrible.
4. I could not begin to imagine what this person was thinking. A gun at a parade??? What if it hit a child? What if it DID kill the rider? How horrible! We are going to the Rose Parade in Pasadena (for New Year's), and now I am just scared! They better have good security...