Woman Off the Hook After Killing Horse

Short rant. Sorry. I was going to talk about the mustangs, but I'm not sure if I can do that without getting fully ticked off anymore.

The Fairbanks district attorney has dropped charges against a Two Rivers woman accused of killing her neighbor's horse.

The neighbor did not respond to the district attorney's phone calls and letters about the case.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported 48-year-old Jamie Rogers had been charged with misdemeanor weapons misconduct for the shooting in October 2008.

She said she fired a warning shot to scare off horses and was unaware she hit one. She said she was protecting her property and should not have been charged.

The criminal complaint said the neighbor's horses had escaped a wire fence and had been in the area previously, biting and kicking Rogers' horse, and she was afraid for the lives of her animals.

You do not shoot a horse to scare it off. How can you possibly kill a horse and be unaware that you shot it?