There are "shrinks" for horses too. Ridiculous, I know but, some owners have more money than brains.

they went out to make a phone call...

MAYFIELD, Ky. -- By the time Emanuel Wagler reached the creek with his wife and seven children in their horse and buggy, it was too dark, too deep and too late.

As Amish who eschew electricity, they might not have known that the weather service had issued a flash flood warning an hour before. But they knew it was raining hard, and Wagler's brother figured the tiny creek they had to cross would already be up to the buggy's axle.

When Wagler got there -- halfway home, a mile to go -- the creek was more like a fast-moving river. In moments, the buggy tipped over, tossing four children into the water. Then the search began.

Soon after midnight, so did the grief.

Rescuers had pulled out the bodies of three of his children. By morning, they found the body of his niece.

"We're trying to give the family some time by themselves right now to grieve," Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon said. "There's no doubt that this was just a terrible accident."

The night began with a short trip to Wagler's brother's house. His family climbed aboard the horse and buggy -- a common sight on the narrow paved roads in Dublin, in western Kentucky.

Emanuel and his brother, Samuel, traveled to a push-button phone, stashed inside a little wooden shack along the road a short distance away. A stool sits just inside.

The Amish use the phone for business and to call relatives. The brothers called their father in Missouri.

"That's the main reason they came out, to call my dad," said Samuel Wagler, 37, who recounted the evening.

Later, the families ate supper. By Thursday evening, Samuel figured the tiny creek his brother had to cross had risen to about the buggy's axles.

Emanuel, his wife and seven children -- one of them Samuel's 11-year-old daughter Elizabeth -- were on their way back around 8:30 p.m., an hour after the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning.

It was unclear how news of the accident spread.

The Amish live among non-Amish in this farming community of rolling green hills near the Missouri, Tennessee and Illinois border. By Thursday evening, some 250 emergency workers were helping in the search.

(02-26-2011, 01:34 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: All religions are overflowing with rank hypocrisy with the possible exception of some older far Eastern traditions such as the Tao and Buddhism and even in these there are inconsistencies and contradictions.

(02-26-2011, 01:53 PM)Cracker Wrote: e "Jainism ~ The True Religion.

hahaha

(02-26-2011, 01:53 PM)Cracker Wrote:

(02-26-2011, 01:34 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: All religions are overflowing with rank hypocrisy with the possible exception of some older far Eastern traditions such as the Tao and Buddhism and even in these there are inconsistencies and contradictions.

Jainism ~ The True Religion.

hahaha

(11-17-2010, 09:40 AM)IMaDick Wrote: Insurance is for the purpose of paying the fucking bill, not deciding what's right or wrong with the person who the injured hire to do the treatment. I fucking hate insurance company bullshit when it comes to paying the bills.

The Amish have it right, they are prepared already to live without most modern conveniences, it's everyone else who will be screwed when all this modern shit goes away. and it will eventually go away.