Recently, an interesting thing happened in the UK, which has also attracted attention in China and aroused heated discussion. The protagonist of the incident is an English country grandmother, who always feels that the neighbor's horse is not full, so she steals carrots from the horse, and is sued by the owner of the horse, and the grandmother is also found guilty. For this cute and stubborn grandmother, I want to defend her a few words.
In order to better speak for the grandmother, I will first briefly repeat the ins and outs of the incident. The grandmother' name is Margaret Porter, 67 years old, living in Skton, North Yorkshire, she thinks that the neighbor's horse is too thin, so she secretly feeds it carrots, which arouses great disgust from the owner of the horse, and the two sides cause a dispute.
As the third protagonist of the event, the brown stallion is named Nelson, why is it so delicate that it can't stand Grandma Potter's carrots? It turns out that Nelson is a retired horse racing horse, noble blood, know the Deyun Society and the Beijing rock circle, the film circle friends may also know that the price of purebred horse racing is not cheap, often millions of euros a horse, their diet is also very exquisite, far from a few carrots can be sent.
In the horse racing era, Nelson's name was "You're doing well", but he lost all 3 of the matches he played, and the owner sold it to Suzanne Cook, a middle-aged woman in Sktontown. From the perspective of horse racing common sense, horse racing generally debuts around the age of 2, and Nelson has just competed in 3 games before being sold, so its age will not exceed 6 years old, but the life span of horses is up to 25-30 years old, and such a mature horse must be outstanding in Skton Town.
Presumably, Suzanne Cook didn't spend less money when she bought this racehorse, and she must have wanted to feed it according to the standards of the horse, which is why she was angry when she found out that Grandma Potter had secretly fed Nelson carrots. She put up signs prohibiting feeding at the manor and stables, and she warned Grandma Potter after catching her stealing the feeding, but none of this stopped Grandma Potter, and they eventually had to go to court to solve the problem.
The Village Court in North Yorkshire found Grandma Potter guilty of misconduct and fined her £524, and she was asked not to come near Suzanne's horse, Susannah's home and Susannah. Indeed, suzanne will treat the retired horse well if she buys it, otherwise she would not be foolish to buy it. Taking a step back, even if she did not treat Nelson well, the horses were her private property, and other natural persons had no right to interfere in the private affairs of other people's families.
The synopsis of the story is basically finished, and I didn't do it briefly, so I forgive me. Let's start defending Grandma Potter. I think the reason why she wanted to steal the horses from other people's homes was because of her good deeds. In Britain, where doing good can be rewarded with psychological comfort, social attention and praise, Grandma Potter may know the story of The Duchess, a British historical figure and political, scientific and cultural activist, who subconsciously needs to emulate the Duchess.
Georgeana Spencer (1757-1806) was the wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Duchess, a distant relative of the late Princess Diana, and was very famous in England. History records that Georgina was kind-hearted and always wanted to help people in difficulty, even animals, and once she found a hungry cow in the field, she deduced that the owner was unable to feed it, so she found the man and gave him some money. This practice is very similar to today's Grandma Hart, and I think Grandma Hart knows the story of Georgina, because Georgina is a well-known figure in the UK like Zhen Huan in China, and there are more than a dozen films based on her.
But this so-called kindness of Georgina was a double-edged sword at the time, and in addition to receiving the evaluation of "kindness of heart", the British writer Mrs. Charlotte Bury thought that her good deeds were often wrong, because One must be just before one is generous, and a person must pay off his debts before being generous, because the duchess is a gambler, and she owes countless gambling debts in her life, and she has not paid them off until death. Today's Grandma Hart actually has such a situation, she feels that she is doing good, but Suzanne believes that she may be poisoned, may make the horse race sick, in the eyes of the judge she is also a guilty person, otherwise she would not be fined the equivalent of 4491 yuan pounds.
But if Grandma Hart really had to help an animal in distress because she wanted to emulate the 5th Duchess of Devon, it would be understandable, after all, she had no subjective malice and did not cause the bad consequences of illness or death in retired horse racing. In fact, the Judge of North Yorkshire ruled that she would never go near Nelson, that she would not have to be fined, and that a lighter sentence would prevent a crackdown on people's enthusiasm for continued good deeds.