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Title: Re: [RC]   bungee ties....

How about being in a trailer with a horse hooked with a bungee cord and it decides to pull back – AS HARD AS HE CAN – and within a millisecond  POP, the buckle lets go from the halter and smacks you right above the eye and bounces to the forehead and leaves a nice deep impression.  If you ever saw the Movie Carrie, that is what the amount of blood reminded me of.  Fortunately I only needed 5 stitches.  And doesn’t it just figure that it was all in helping a “friend” get her horse out of her trailer.  There were two horses in the trailer, and She just walked off with one horse and opened the tail gate for the trailer one never checking to see if I had un hooked him yet.  Of course, with his travel mate leaving, and his gate open in the back, he naturally decided it was time to leave, hooked up or not.    Needless to say, I am not a big fan of bungee cords around horses.  

patricia

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From: <mjwest02@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:18:52 -0400
To: <stlst@xxxxxxx>, <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   bungee ties....

 You are lucky you did not get hurt --   My husband got a nasty cut between the eyes when one got loose - lucky he didn't put out an eye - When they get OVERSTRETCHED, they are lethal!
 
Mary
 
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From: Suzi Maiorisi <stlst@xxxxxxx>
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jonni <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:49:30 -0500
Subject: Re: [RC] bungee ties....not my horses

I was covering my trailer with a tarp the other day (no horses anywhere near, had furniture in it) and my sister and I were trying to get them all arranged and sproing! one went flying - took us 30 minutes to find the ding blinged thing as it shot over 75' across the yard OMG...I'll take my spider web thing for covering the trailer/truck bed and leave the bungees for stretching tarps over the chicken yard!
Suzi.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jonni <_javascript_:parent.ComposeTo('jonnij@xxxxxxxx');>  
> To: Ridecamp <_javascript_:parent.ComposeTo('ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx');>  
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:35 AM
> Subject: [RC] bungee ties....not my horses
>
> Marv posted : >>>The stretching of the bungees shrunk the diameter enough to
> pull them out of their clips while still retaining the clips
> to the cords on one side of the clips.One went completely through her lower
> lip and blew the backs off of two of her lower incisors and chipped one
> biting edge really good.During the two hours of Sunday barnyard surgery we
> had a lot of time to talk to the vet about bungee injuries and
> fatalities.<<<
>
> And I bet Marv was glad it was not a human that got hit by the bungee
> missile. Can you imagine something hitting a persons body that hard? Enough
> to take teeth off a horse??? Gawd, WHY would anyone use the dang things??? I
> have heard MORE accident "reports" from bungees breaking and giving, and
> then becoming a missile of destruction. And if you release one with a quick
> release snap as it is stretched out, that free end is most likely going to
> go flying and hit something, or someone.
>
> If anyone loves bungees, I have a cou ple hi-tie bungees I'll sell you....cuz
> they have been replaces with cotton rope ties on my horses.Also, if they get
> a leg over a cotton rope by accident, it will be much less of a rope burn
> that what the material in bungee ties will do......
>
> Jonni
>
>
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