So, is letting your kids ride a horse abuse? It seems that all it takes is one tragedy to reach national attention, and all of a sudden, we need new laws, better education on the subject (du jour), a ban of this or that...
I haven't been reading all of the threads recently. They make my head spin. But how is this any different than what a lot of you have been talking about? The Croc. hunter brings a baby into a pen with him. First and only time, and it will never happen again. No injury or accident. What an uproar!
Beloved actor dies after years of struggling with a horse-related injury. Thousands of people are injured each year due to riding horses, some killed, I expect. Yet kids are allowed on horses every day.
A few years ago, my sister got thrown off her horse Misty, and broke her left collar bone. My sister didn't get bucked or anything, more like she fell off backwards or did a backwards cartwheel or something. It turns out she and my brother-in-law and some friends were horsebackriding back home in upstate NY. Her horse Misty freaked out at something on the trail in front of her (it was a garden snake) and reared up. My sister didn't react in time and tumbled backwards in a perfect 1 1/2 somersault, landing on her left shoulder/collar bone, snapping the collar bone in two.
Should she sue Misty for "freaking out" and not being a stable rideable horse? Better yet, where was that ambulance chasing John Edwards too? She could have sued the manufacturer of the horse saddle for not being able to keep her placed securely in the saddle!
Butch A.
Edit: Long story short.... My sister/brother-in-law have since retired from IBM in upstate NY, sold the horses, sold their house, and have gotten the %#&@ outta NY State (now ruined by the Hilde-beast and Schumer). [:@] They now reside here in the Richmond, VA area, like me...
Beloved actor dies after years of struggling with a horse-related injury. Thousands of people are injured each year due to riding horses, some killed, I expect. Yet kids are allowed on horses every day.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?!?!?!?!?
Good one -1...
BUT.....
I'd be willing to bet that I place myself in more danger riding my horse than that infant was in dangling in front of a meat eating croc. While I don't agree with the Croc Man's choice and thoroughly think he's an idiot, the same argument rings true here for the cat.....
On a side note, I was riding the trails one day when a pheasant blasted from cover next to my horse, the horse reared and I landed in a tall stand of wild blackberry bushes. Going in wasn't all that bad, it was the coming out that hurt the most. So, I sued the pheasant.
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Thanks, Bob. Of course I'm just kind of trolling on this one. I do believe that we are over legislated, and over critical of certain choices other people make. But there is a line, where such criticism is valid. I guess that line is different for everyone -- see Stealthy, and the other guys he's debating.
I honestly see no problem with kids riding horses, but if parents put a kid on a horse that is a known danger(I'm not familiar with horses, but there are some that don't tolerate people, right?), I would have a problem with that.
I honestly see no problem with kids riding horses, but if parents put a kid on a horse that is a known danger(I'm not familiar with horses, but there are some that don't tolerate people, right?), I would have a problem with that.
A known danger? Animals are unpredictable, even domesticated ones. A horse kicked me in the kidney when I was 8 (no injuries other than a huge horse shoe-shaped bruise). He was the dominant male on my grandpa's farm, and he was going after another male about 15 yards away. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it wasn't my parent's fault any more than it was mine. He couldn't have connected at all anyway.
I hate horses. Give me a good atv any day.----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thanks, Bob. Of course I'm just kind of trolling on this one. I do believe that we are over legislated, and over critical of certain choices other people make. But there is a line, where such criticism is valid. I guess that line is different for everyone -- see Stealthy, and the other guys he's debating.
-----------------------------------------------You see thoug that is one of my points. Riding horses is excepted and conciderd normal.
Where feeding a croc. is not.
Thats exactly what i ment by sciocity having an efect on what its "normal".
In all realty the horses are probily more dangerious than the croc. but the horse is excepetd by sciocity and the crocs are not.
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I honestly see no problem with kids riding horses, but if parents put a kid on a horse that is a known danger(I'm not familiar with horses, but there are some that don't tolerate people, right?), I would have a problem with that.
I honestly see no problem with feeding crocs with my children (I have 40 years experience with them), but if parents out there feed crocs without knowing the danger I would have a problem with that. (says the crocdile hunter)
C'mon people, tear this argument apart with your cunning and wit ! Surly common place america, the rational thinking ones that KNOW what lines are and when they crossed and that letting a huge, never tamed, always spooky animal carry your children on their backs ? Thats INSANE !! Not to mention those that step on kids, kick them, bite them etc etc. Child abuse/neglect if I have ever seen an eaxmple !
Meet me here at our fair grounds.
we will call child services and a Dep.
I will put my kid on a horse.
you and your kid play with a gator.
and lets see which one of us wares nice shiney silver braclets away from there.
after that i will let my kid walk around with no shoes you "show" yours off by hanging it out a second story window. Lets see who get to go home with there kid.
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