i know! this whole situation is so bizarre! i don't know whether to laugh or to cry!!!
i think they're chancing their arm too. however shows generally advise their exhibitors to have their own public liability and don't usually accept responsibility for accidents involving animals, as far as i know...
i don't have any public liability because i've never needed to and anyone even if i did have my own insurance this would still be a wrongful case as the incident had nothing to do with me!! none of my animals have ever been any threat to anyone when out in public! so obviously i'm very worried in case this man starts coming after me personally now...and it just happens to be one of the most expensive cameras on the markets plus he apparently injured his hip in all this also...so you can imagine the type of money we're talking!
i'm assuming there was an original incident because i called the horse shows solicitors to find out what the hell was going on and they said that this man had been carried away in an ambulance...i'm guessing this would have been pretty public and attracted a lot of attention yet his wife the next day accused me and said that she had witnesses that would verify it was me!!
when she first stopped me, her first question was did i know a particular persons name, let's say 'john doe'...it happened to be the same surname as mine, so i was thinking maybe she knew some distant relative of mine or something...but i didn't know anyone of that name...
when i talked to the shows solicitors they told me that there were two suspect horses...and he gave me the competition number of the other one (by mistake i think!). When i checked the show catalogue last night it just so happens that the owner of this other horse also has the same surname as me.
by my deduction and i could be completely wrong but this is the best guess i can make...I'm thinking that an incident did actually occur on the showgrounds and that the person involved or the owner of the horse that did the damage gave his name as 'john doe' say.
i'm guessing there was panic in getting the husband into the ambulance etc so maybe 'john doe' disappeared afterwards...
then i'm thinking this woman decided to look through the show catalogue for the same name and it just so happens that there were only 2 other 'doe' surnames listed, myself and this other horse owner...
i'm now thinking that perhaps she was going around the showgrounds looking for our 2 numbered horses and just by complete coincidence came across me the next day bringing my horse back from its competition...and the whole thing has spiralled out of control from there.
talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!!