Real Estate Agent Survives Horse Attack to Show Home
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In a slow market, you have to be prepared to do what it takes to sell a home. Erika McKinney showed her persevence as she continued to try to show a home in the Bedford, Indiana area after being bitten and head butted into a tree showing a farm. Talk about going the last 9 yards for a client.
Real estate can be a tough business. But sometimes it’s a real beast, Erika McKinney has learned. McKinney won a trip to the hospital when a horse bit her and knocked her into a tree during a property showing last Friday.
McKinney and her client were standing by a fence at the property in Bedford, about 65 miles south of Indianapolis, when the horse leaned over and bit McKinney’s hand, then head-butted her into a tree.McKinney, who suffered bruises to her hand and chest, was treated and released from a local hospital.
”We were just kind of standing there and the horse just kind of pulled its head back and reared her in the chest,” said Diana Ritter, McKinney’s client. ”We were both worried that it would come over that fence. I love horses, but that one, I don’t know about. It had some sort of problem.” A county animal control officer is investigating the attack.
McKinney, who owns three horses and a pony, wasn’t deterred by either attack. ”She kept going after all of it,” Ritter said via CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
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Comment by Brandon Cornett on 17 November 2006:
That’s too funny (now that we know she’s okay, of course). I think if the sale goes through, she deserves a bonus commission for perserverance in the face of dangerous livestock. At the very least, a sales award!
Great story. Thanks for posting.
-Brandon
Comment by Erika McKinney on 9 May 2007:
Thanks Brandon! I have to be the first to admit this story was hilarious, I lived it! haha! Actually the deal did not go through:-(! haha! Oddly enough this wasn’t my first run in with livestock! I was showing a home about a year prior to this and I was attacked but left uninjured by a llama. It charged my client who was carrying a small child when I cut it off and ran with it chasing me. Clearly I wasn’t thinking! haha! Finally I was able to detour it into a stall in the barn. It was pretty dramatic. Duckin and Dodgin! All the while a neighbor riding a lawnmover watched full of laughter. Possibly I need to reevaluate my profession! haha! jk I can say my clients are pretty safe knowing I will take one for the team!
Erika McKinney “worlds most determined realtor” hahaha!!!
Comment by MARK on 9 May 2007:
ERIKA, Was it possible maybe you had something the horse wanted. For instance Bee’s are also attracted to honey— could it be he smelled CHOCOLATE and you. Maybe instead of wrestling around let’s say in the hay or mud, he may of had an attraction to chocolate wrestling, maybe that turns those animals and even those humans that are hung like a horse ON..