HOT AIR BALLOONS!
I was riding my gelding, Arthur, and the mini mare was running free behind me, and my mom was walking, in the fields behind my house. I was cantering, and then all of the sudden my bridle snaps in half. It was older, and I was too young to know how to oil it so I hadn't oiled it in a while, so I take full responsibility....So I get off to see how bad it's broken, and find that the cheekpiece on one side is snapped clean in half, and the bridle wasn't gonna make it back to the house. Especially with the way Arthur fights for rein when he wants to run lol. So I take a lead rope I carry just in case and wrap it around Arthur's neck in an attempt to keep him steady till we reached the barn. Yea, a battle lost before it starts. Well, it might maybe have possibly worked if a hot air balloon hadn't appeared 200 feet up, blowing fire and freaking out the horses. Arthur breaks loose, and canters with the mini mare "Lulu" in the general direction of another few fields....we run, desperate to get the horses before they reach a road, call 911 and tell them to post police on either end of the street to warn drivers there's loose horses. We're freaking out while running through the back 1000....until we get to the house and find both horses grazing in our backyard. YEAH. Arthur had somehow lost his saddle blanket from under his saddle (?!?) and I found it like 4 months later in the woods, all chewed up by some animal who'd stolen it lol.