Re: RC: Infants and toddlers on horses

[Marv Walker <Marv@MarvWalker.com>]

> >Horses are the most dangerous animals on earth.<
> 
> Nope.  That would be hippopotamuses.  Why do you think we only ride them in
> pelhams, with looooong dressage sticks, and standing martingales?
> Ostriches aren't fun either.    Oooooh, and then there's my personal
> favourite : the Rinkhals - it's a spitting cobra.   Crocs do their fair
> share of damage.   As do lions - most notably to Chinese Tourists and
> illegal Mozambican immigrants.

Only morons mindlessly get around these (and the others you 
are striving to come up with) animals.  If they survive they 
soon tell everyone they can about what happened to them.  They 
may be more predictably lethal but they are not as dangerous as 
1000 pound animals with walnut-sized brains who have been 
romantisized on TV, books and in the minds of emotional young 
girls, handled by the unwary.

No woman in her right mind would take her toddler nieces in the 
lion enclosure to pet the kitties.  Somewhere I have an email
from a woman who took her nieces into a herd of loose horses to 
pet them.  She wanted to know what she did "wrong" that put her
and her nieces in such danger and wanted to know how she "could 
possibly have been so stupid".  People aren't told of the risks 
and hence they become sitting ducks.

Marv "There is nothing more vulnerable than a fool-proof concept 
in the face of a determined enough fool." Walker
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