Re: Re[2]: RC: riding in the dark and Pepper spray

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

Please be really careful with pepper spray.  My husband is a retired police
offcr.  and several of my friends are in law enforcement.  They are very
leary of using it while on a horse. The idea of the pepper spray is o.k. ,
providing that there is no breeze and that you are spraying towards the back
of your horse.  It would be pretty bad to blind yourself and/or your horse
and have a ticked off attacker coming after you.  Whether it be human or
critter.   gesa n clovis
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenzie_Kelly@spc.com <Kenzie_Kelly@spc.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: RC: Re[2]: RC: riding in the dark


>
>     Sylvia,
>
>     My question with carrying pepper spray is how do you carry it?  Do you
>     attach it to your saddle, or yourself somehow?  Have you done "drills"
>     to see how fast you can get it out of where ever in case you needed it
>     in a hurry?
>
>     I think pepper spray is a great idea, I'm just having a hard time
>     visualizing how it could comfortably be carried without making it too
>     hard to get to.
>
>     I think it was Horse Illustrated that did a series on how to be safe
>     on the trail.  They were mostly moves to do with the horse to block an
>     attacker, which goes back to the sharing trails discussion.  Getting
>     down to make the horse less scary to visitors on the trail is a great
>     idea as far as PR is concerned, but is a horrible idea as far as
>     safety is concerned - I think they brought that up in the article.
>     Either that, or Bonnie Prewalski (sp?) mentioned it in her Equitana
>     seminar.
>
>     Ya know, it's really, really sad that we have to think about these
>     things at all.
>
>     Kenzie & Zane
>     Birmingham, AL
>
>
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>Subject: Re: RC: riding in the dark
>Author:  Dbeverly4@aol.com
>Date:    10/11/99 12:44 PM
>
>In a message dated 10/11/99 6:54:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>Kenzie_Kelly@spc.com writes:
>
><<  I will agree that the biggest threat are humans, though.  With all the
>      talk of bells, it occurred to me that it wouldn't really hurt to
>      carry
>      one of those police whistles to scare off ANY species of attacker. >>
>
>I carry pepper spray.  My brother gave it to me when a mountain lion
>munched
>on some people in a nearby State park.  I've only seen one mountain lion
>around here and he was definitely more interested in getting AWAY from me
>than making a meal out of me.  The pepper spray does make me feel a bit
>safer with regard to strange humans though.
>
>Sylvia
>
>
>
>
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