Now if those Amish would have just posted a question about how to secure a
center post on this NG, that never would have happened.


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I was talking to a guy who lives near the Amish. A few years ago some
Amish families got together in a barn for their Sunday church
services. Their services tend to last 4 or 5 hours. The service was
in the upper part of the barn, and most of them tied their horses in
the lower part of the barn. During the services, things got noisy
downstairs and several times they had to go down to stop a couple
horses from fighting. Things would quiet down for awhile and then
start up again. Suddenly the whole upper floor dropped part way down
and all the church people fell to the center of the building. It was
total chaos.

I turns out one of the horses was tied to the center beam of the barn,
and pulled the beam down.

He said no person or horses were badly hurt, but that was the last
time they tied their horses down there.

Mark