Head Case Redux

Head Case Redux: As a service to those for whom the Zidane head-butt controversy was the biggest story so far this year, And Furthermore includes this link to a July 25, 2006 USA Today article (with video footage) entitled “Jockey apologizes for head-butting horse.” (I am not making this up.) The jockey is sorry and assures everyone that this "will never happen again." I am sure the horse feels a lot better better about it now with that reassurance. And Furthermore notes that, unlike Zidane, the jockey was wearing a helmet at the time of the head-butt. Is And Furthermore the only one puzzled over why anyone would ever use their head (which has numerous other important uses) as a weapon?