Posted on 10/11/2004 10:47:10 PM PDT by ambrose
Tennessean kicked by horse dies in Montana wilderness
HELENA, Mont. A woman who died after a horse kicked her during a trip in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana has been identified as Betty McClelland of Bluff City, Tennessee
Authorities say the 41-year-old died of respiratory failure after a single kick to the throat on Thursday.
McClelland was on a backcountry trip with her husband, who tried to administer first aid. The woman died about an hour after she was injured.
Authorities learned of the fatality after the husband rode out of the wilderness and contacted them.
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Poor Mr. Ed - he gets no respect -
Must have been a bad couple of days to be around horses - it's
something though -
Ouch! Right in the throat! That is horrible.
I'm glad my husband watches Discovery Channel. He'd have performed a trachyotomy.
There are 5 different links about people getting kicked. What gives? The horses must be upset lately!
I wonder if all the victims were republicans and the AFL-CIO union people were involved in hiring the horses??
As one who has been kicked several times, I can tell you that it hurts like hell and can be life threatening. Almost always, though, horses kick out not from malice but fear. Sometimes they kick out of exuberance such as when they are turned out. Sometimes they kick at other horses and people get in between.
Horses are magnificent animals but they have the brains of a duck, are creatures of habit and above all are herd animals. I always try to keep these truths in mind when around them.
Ambrose
I had not relealized you had posted all these horse kick articles when I posted. As someone who spent weeks in a hospital from a kick, I have learned to take it series.
If the media can make a wave of reality out of Iraq, you can do it with horse kicks, right? Or probably vice versa.
check this out funny as hell
http://opendir.mine.nu/stuff/week_34/HorseKickToTheFace.wmv
LOL
hmm..I still say look at the husband.
LOL
This is terrible. Prays for the family.
My gelding nailed me good right in the elbow, turning him out one day. Fortunatly, it was winter, and I had thick clothing on. The kick did not break any bones, but I was still off work for a month, and had to have therapy.
Any knowlegable horseperson will tell you they are three things..
Big
Dirty
Dangerous..
Our romantic notions and the fact that horses are not part of our day to day life, as they once were, has divorced us from some of the reality of dealing with them.
The more you know, the more you know what happens, before what happens, happens...
This happened fairly close to us in the wilderness area. The radio reporter said that the husband TRIED to do a tracheotomy on the wife without success. It was a 6 mile ride out to get any help at all. I have been back in there and there is no cell service or services at all. You are pretty much on your own.
The woman was an experienced back country rider and they were from Tennessee.
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