West Cocoa Chat

A good friend of mine relayed this story to me as it was told at their recent family get-together for Christmas. In the same light of the movie, "Christmas Vacation," seems that this family was discussing who was their "Cousin Eddy." The following story was presented as "proof."

A horse was on his last (pun intended) legs and was close to death. Two of the brothers wanted to put this horse out of his misery but couldn't bring themselves to kill the horse. They quickly deduced that the brother in question would have no remorse in putting a small cylindrical (bullet) object into the horse's (head) cranium. The Cousin Eddy (CE) brother shows up with a firearm and the horse is positioned next to a recently dug hole for the horse's remains.

CE takes aim and discharges the weapon causing the horse immediate and critical trauma which results in the horse falling over into the pre-dug hole. As the brothers engage in covering up the remains, a problem quickly arises. It seems that the horse has fallen in an unanticipated angle resulting in one of the legs being exposed above the ground. The dilemma, what do we do about the upright leg on the now permanently prone horse?

How would you handle this situation?
How do you think CE handled this situation?
If you'd like, post your answers and I will give you CE's solution in the next post.