REISTERSTOWN, Md. — After escaping through a neighbor’s fence with two other horses, ‘John’ fell into a large pit behind Ron Riley’s home---a potential hazard he wasn’t aware of when he bought his home on Old Hanover Road 25 years ago.

“I didn’t even know it was there until it collapsed a few months back and thank goodness I wasn’t riding over it with my lawnmower or tractor falling in there, because it really could have been bad,” Riley told us.

Once Riley became aware of the large crater, which had formed in his yard, he went to great lengths to try to cover it up to keep anyone from falling inside.

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He says he knew it was an old dry well, which had caved in and his insurance company sent out an engineer who confirmed it, ye

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