Can a horse rip off your arm?

Question

I heard this story about a horse that, one day, bit its owner's hand, yanked it really hard and ripped his arm right out of its socket.

Is there any truth to this? Could it have really happened?

Answer 1

I don't doubt it for a second.

Answer 2

I once had an *** take a chunk out of my butt

Answer 3

Yes. Horses are very, very strong.

Answer 4

it can pull it out of socket but it's not likely that the horse could actually rip your entire arm off from your hand theyre strong but they'd end up with your fingers before your whole arm.  

Answer 5

you mean dislocated? then yes

Answer 6

if its a wild, angry, mistreated horse then theres a possibility....

Answer 7

yes it is possible to lose your arm on a horse

Answer 8

of course it could, horses attack and eat people all the time.  they are more dangerous then hippos

Answer 9

I wish it would rip yours off so you could stop typing questions in the wrong section of YA.

Answer 10

i dont think it bit the whole arm off it was just a bite. :

http://www.flahorse.com/forums/showthrea...

Answer 11

Horses are big heavy animals and very strong.

A horse certainly has the strength to do what you described.

Answer 12

Easily.

Answer 13

happened to me... twice

Answer 14

Yes I heard of it happening in my town too. It was a stud horse that was aggressive and it attacked a 5 year old boy. It ripped off his arm and killed him in just a minute. His Dad had to shoot the horse to stop him. It was so sad.

On 5/04/01 the Tulsa World (Oklahoma) in a report titled, "Colcord boy, 4, dies from severe horse bites" revealed that Bailey Stockton, aged 4, died while in flight to a Springdale, Ark., hospital from his home in Colcord, Oklahoma.

The Tulsa World report quoted Sheriff Lenden Woodruff extensivly:

The sheriff said the boy died from numerous severe bites to the head and body. The attack occurred around 6:45 p.m.

Woodruff said the horse, owned by the boy's family, was grazing in a pasture about 50 yards from the family's house. The boy was playing in the front yard just a few feet from his home's front door, the sheriff said.

Woodruff said the horse jumped a wire fence and immediately began to bite the boy. The youngster's step-father, Michael Weaver, saw the attack, got his gun, and shot and killed the horse, the sheriff said.

However, before Weaver could kill the animal, the horse had bitten Bailey on the head and body and ripped off the boy's right arm, the sheriff said.