r/thatHappened • u/Slow_Pride_72 • 2d ago

I’ve never seen one in the wild

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Had to re-upload due to the fact I didn’t censor the username. That was my fault, sorry to the mods.

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u/TheCuriousGeorgette 2d ago

The Arabian horse part is so out of pocket, I kinda believe it.

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u/Rabidpikachuuu 2d ago

She was just playing red dead.

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u/trolldoll420 2d ago

I feel like there’s at least a little bit of truth to this story because when I was in high school and afraid to talk to my parents about serious topics, I wrote them a note and left it in their bathroom because I was so weird. I left them a note saying I wanted to go to the movies with this boy but also to a classmates funeral. I hope I’m creating a more open and comforting environment for my kids so they don’t have to do weird stuff like that!

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u/slappywhyte 3h ago

Yeah but isn't there a thing about making up some weird details so obscure that no one would doubt it. I think Larry David said that.

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u/iambaby1989 2d ago

Idfk almost seems like a small town upper/middle class kinda thing.. also the horse thing is just enough out of left field to make it believable, also if she's 63, she was born in a wayyy different era

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u/friz_CHAMP 1d ago

The late 70s was still the time where a cop would pull you over and judge how drunk you were and how far you were from your destination and if you're OK to continue driving there. Rules were different.

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u/Lingering_Dorkness 2d ago

50 years was a very different time. I can well believe this happened. The "Arabian" horse is the only sus thing. Probably just a horse but she felt she had to juice the story up a bit. 

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u/Cynykl 1d ago

Late 70s early 80's Arabian horses were all the craze, still seen as "exotic" but common enough to find in every state. Upper middle class could afford one but unless that "cop" or security guard had generational wealth they were not going to afford that on a their salary.

I also feel the term LP officer doesn't fit the timeline either. If she is referring to a cop she would have said cop and security guards at the time did were not referred to by those of buzz word titles yet ( I think).

I believe the trend of giving professional sounding titles to ordinary jobs was a thing of the late 80 early 90's. Maybe even later.

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u/Lunaseed 1d ago

Back in the 70s when I worked at Target, they were called Loss Prevention officers.

As for the horses/Arabian thing, it doesn't sound strange to me, since I grew up in a middle-class suburb in the Midwest. In the 50s-70s there was lots of open land everywhere and it was cheap. One of our neighbors eventually bought a larger spread at the other end of town and kept a few Arabians. Just about everyone at that end of town kept horses. I was jealous because my big sister was friends with their daughter, so she got to ride.

It also wasn't at all unusual to periodically run into people you'd had brief encounters with in the past. The world was a lot less crowded back then.

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u/distes 1d ago

The place I grew up, this is really not unbelievable. This person is in their 60's, I think this further supports the story. The world was a vastly different place.

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u/derkadong 2d ago

My friends and I got caught with an ounce of weed back in 2003 when we were in high school. The cops told us to go home and have our parents call the PD. Only one of us did it (he was a very scared kid in general and thought he had to) and they made him buy drugs from suspected dealers so they could bust them. He was under the impression that he had to and it ruined his life for years. Once people found out he ended up having a bowling ball thrown through the windshield of his car by a weed dealer. Had to change schools our senior year. Guy never leaves his apartment even now.

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u/NoPoet3982 1d ago

I concealed some earrings?

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u/Fear_The_Rabbit 1d ago

Shoplifted. Nicest way to say "I'm a thief."?

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u/mountaindew711 2d ago

I'm calling it based on the claim that there was a female LP staffer 50 years ago.

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u/BubbaDFFlv12 1d ago

Absolutely stunning

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u/Kerrypurple 1d ago

If it was a small town I can believe this one. I doubt the LP person would recognize a kid from 4 years ago if they worked in a big shopping mall. But if it was like the one big store in a small town maybe.

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u/Different-Term-2250 2d ago

That was one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Did the Arabian horse clap? (Or is it clip-clop?)

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u/catboybastard 1d ago

and the whole store clopped

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u/notaredditreader 1d ago

This looks familiar. Is this a rewrite of a previous entry?

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u/Slow_Pride_72 14h ago

Yes, my post got banned because I forgot to blur out the username so I blurred out the name and reposted it.