Missing Horse
* Some people can’t handle serious issues involving animals without sniggering flippancy. The Times reported (Sept.4) that the [presumed] theft of a horse from the Los Angeles Equestrian Center has left his guardian, Barbara Parkening, devastated and that the animal could die without his daily medical treatment. Is this funny? If not, then why was the piece derisively titled “An Unstable Situation” and, in the front-page index, “No Horsing Around”? Would a story about a kidnapped child appropriately be titled, say, “Baby Goes Bye-Bye”?
STEVEN ZAK
Sunland
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