Breaking a leg

[jonathan]

(02-19-2013 05:03 PM)Rick Smith Wrote:  Bringing a large and excited animal under control so that it can be remounted is difficult if no part of your anatomy is injured; bringing one under control, as Booth was trying to do in Baptist Alley, if his leg was broken at the theatre, would be almost impossible.

Rick

Even if the injury was of a nature that it was causing minimal discomfort in the moments after being sustained? Had he snapped a femur in two I'd be right there with you. That's the whole argument, that the injury was unnoticed or virtually unnoticed in the moments when Booth was escaping the theater and mounting the horse. I just feel that the adrenaline/excitement/fear factor has to be respected. And we have to consider, as has been said before, that it's very possible that there was an initial injury at the theater, which was aggravated later. Maybe mounting the horse was the thing that aggravated it. And just maybe he didn't hurt himself at all at the theater, but his horse fell on him.