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  • 2012-11-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This Photo of a Giant Furniture 'Horse Shelter' Real? (en)
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  • We first collected this rumor off the internet in 2003: Photographs of these horses standing in a meadow beneath an outsized table and chairs have been circulating on the Internet since 2003, typically accompanied by the claim that the unusually large furniture was constructed by a farmer as a way of working around a local ordinance that prohibited him from building a shelter for the animals. Although the photographs are real, the claim about the giant furnishings' having originated as a way of skirting the law is a bit of fiction: the structures were built to serve the dual purpose of providing some shelter for the equines and serving as a visual advertisement for their owner's business. When Time magazine featured a photograph of this tableau in June 2003, it was captioned thusly: Likewise, several photographs of the same scene which were snapped by an Associated Press photographer in July 2004 bore similar captions: Several additional pictures of the giant-sized pieces of furniture (with and without horses) and an overhead aerial view of the structures can be seen here. (en)
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