It was impossible to understand. As Rock and an overweight blonde friend of his stood on the back deck of her apartment, they saw a man on horseback desperately gripping a rope slung over a branch at least 150 feet above a dry, rocky riverbed. Submerged in the mystery of this circumstance for Rock was how the horse kept from falling from between the rider's legs, but most of all, he had no idea how the man's strength was possibly adequate to support his own weight and that of a thousand-pound horse.
Obviously, there was more. "What's happened here?" Rock said. "How did he get in that position?"
"I don't know," his friend said. "All I know is that if he lets go, he's dead."
The man screamed for help. Rock could think of nothing to do. The man fell, and he and his horse smashed into the rocks and gravel below. They both lay still as Rock reached for his cell phone.
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