Thursday, October 21, 2010

People Can Be Pathetic And Cruel

So a couple nights ago, around eleven o'clock, we got a call from our neighbor just across the highway from our horse ranch! He told us that our row of bales in front of our trees by our driveway were on fire! We drove out there to find a couple firetrucks, a police car and 52 of our bales on fire! Someone had come late at night knowing that we don't live on the ranch at the moment and set the bales on fire and about 15 of our beautiful, mature evergreens surround our place! We were lucky the wind was blowing the way it was or it could have burnt our old house, our machinery, our pens, our barn and well everything! We could have lost everything! Our animals, our land, our home! We stood in shock as we watched the firefighters contain the fire and then proceed to let it burn out! We need those bales to feed our horses! Without them, we will have to somehow come up with money to buy bales and find bales to buy. The saddest part is we were not the only ones hit and we were not hit the hardest. Just a couple of roads down from our farm, they lit another farmer's bales on fire! Unfortunately, they lost 200 of their bales! That's about $6000 lost plus months of labor! We heard later that while the firefighter's were busy putting out the fire's, a firefighter's truck was stolen from the station! He got back from all his hard work, early in the morning to find it gone! The police don't have leads about who it could be and we just found out the insurance won't cover our loss on the bales! 

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