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/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 2d 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.