Posted on 10/10/2005 5:40:08 PM PDT by txroadkill
And just how are they suppose to handle a horse falling down?
Is the horse OK?
With a gyroscope
Don't sight see at a fight, you are liable to become part of the action. If the fans begin to break up when the fight breaks out instead of crowding together, the police can get in and out much easier.
Anyone who is close enough to a police horse to get injured during a fight didn't have the common sense to get out of the way. The horses are meant to be intimidating.
Y'all don't suppose there was alcohol involved, do you?
(The fans, not the horse)
Victims to a falling horse. There's a new one.
It takes a well trained horse and a good rider for crowd control. Horses do not like unsure footing and I'm sure the horse must have stepped on something moving to have fallen over.
That's the first question that I had, too. I have been trying to figure out how a horse just "falls over". They are pretty stable on their feet. The article says that the horse was picking up it's front feet like it was trying to gallop; It makes me wonder if one of the miscreants was doing something to the horse that the officer couldn't see.
It sounds like the horse was trying to get away from something in a hurry. Maybe somebody was jabbing it in the chest? Pulling hard on the bridle, maybe? Something appears to have freaked it out to the point that it just wanted to get away.
Drunk horse, for sure.
They really enjoy the work, too. ;-)
Well...This is in Texas
Justice is the one thing you should always find You got to saddle up your boys You got to draw a hard line. When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune and We’ll all meet back at the local saloon. We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces Singing whiskey for my men, and beer for my horses
I'll second that.I have a couple of quarter horses in the barn that really know how to throw their weight around.
One of the best taglines I've seen.
Oklahoma football is becoming quite the dangerous sport for spectators, isn't it? :)
Or... one of those hand held high voltage "defense" gadgets they sell at gun stores...
The latter would be my guess. It happenned at a fight...
Or too drunk.
Police use horses for crowd control because people know that they are somewhat unpredictable and dangerous. It works.
If you are in an unruly crowd, and the police bring in horses, unless it is a matter for which you are willing to be severely injured or killed, just walk away. At the first sight of a horse, just walk away.
My mare, who is the calmest Thoroughbred on earth, occasionally just goes nuts. She's been spooked galloping down a hill on a frosty day during a fox hunt, by oil drums rolling off the back of a pickup truck, by a wheelbarrow with a little kid in it, and occasionally by absolutely nothing that we could figure out.
There wouldn't need to be a cattle prod or anything else in the crowd, if something spooked the horse it would try to lift its front end and wheel on its hind legs - if the horses weren't shod with the borium studs it could slip and go down.
First question is what are the police using for horseshoes.
Understatement!
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