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Re: [RC] [RC] Helmet stories - Karen Sullivan - Rosalie MarleyYour editorial sounds like a good idea.
When I lived in Sunland, there was a local lady with a nice arab who always wanted
to ride with me and my friends. We always told her - "Not until you wear a helmet :-)"
(smiley is important!) Before long, she met up with us on the trail, wearing her
helmet, and we all rode together. She even learned that her arab could trot! and trot
and trot....
Over the years, she has come off a couple of times, usually near home, and although
she has gotten some injuries, they are all surviveable. One of her friends, who thinks
helemts were for sissies, sustained a coma and lots of brain damage. Still scares
my friend to see people riding without helmets.
My thought is to use "friendly peer pressure" to get folks wearing helmets too.
Rosalie
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Re: [RC] Helmet stories - Karen Sullivan
Thank you, that is a great link,and I added our story to her website. I am
going to
help the editor of our local newspaper with an editorial about the
importance of
wearing protective grear while engaging in recreational sports. I live in a
county
with a lot of horseback riders, sadly, very few wear helmets but the group
of ladies
I ride with. The local group of junior riders refuse to wear helmets,
despite one of
their drill team members nearly getting killed when her horse reared on
pavement and
she hit her head.....we also have a local woman, mother of two teenage
children who
went off a 20 ft. ledge last weekend on an ATV, and was not wearing a
helmet...now
in coma....and at a local rodeo a year ago a young man with two small kids
was bucked
off, hit his head and died immediately....just too many stories like that.
Karen
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Rosalie Marley
http://TigerHorseFarms.com
Ride the Tiger!
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