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- From: "Irvin Lichtenstein " <ilichten1@verizon.net>
- To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] planning
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:54:19 -0400
You can’t get a guy busted for drunk
riding around here either, but public intoxication is a summary offense at
least and drunk carriage driving is treated like any other DWI. The problem is
enforcing the suspension of driving privileges since you don’t need a
license to drive a buggy and many don’t care if their car driving license
is suspended for underage possession either. Carrying alcohol in any park is
illegal without an event permit, or at a restaurant. What is amazing is how many event planners
neglect any emergency planning at all or they plan for horses but not people or
people and not horses. Every competitive horse event should have a plan
and resources available to carry out that plan. Even on a 2-3 hour chase
type ride we check off every rider at every road crossing so we know around what
segment the rider went off course or went down. We try to have a mounted
responder available with a radio, we always have a 4x4 with an EMT who rides,
and the locals are told of the event so if the dispatch center gets called
directly they know what is going on. We started this procedure for a 50
mile ECTRA event that only came close to a road at the vet stops. Never
lost a rider or a horse. Used to use these events as the final exam
for the search manager course—a newly graduated manager got to
carry out the plan, and I got to go in the field for a change. Irv Lichtenstein From:
msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lila Corey Well put Irv. It took a lot of persuading our
parade committee that "poppers" and that candy should be forbidden at
the parades. The year we had the incident with the drunk on horseback, I
had already found a policeman as we were lining up and asked him to
remove said drunk and he would not do so. After the
"incident", I met every year the week of the parade and reminded the
police in charge of the parade, that if I asked for someone to be escorted out
of the parade lineup, I was to be taken seriously and no second thoughts.
I obviously wasn't asking because I didn't like the guy, he was drunk..
We never had an incident after that. Lila
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[MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Karen Nesbitt, 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Laurie Hanahan, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] planning, Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Press coverage of accident, Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/06/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
David leadbetter, 07/06/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Una Smith, 07/06/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Karen Nesbitt, 07/06/2010
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