Bug(gy) out

[NEOWatcher]

Woman Injured When She Jumps Out Of Buggy (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/13477060/detail.html)

Saw this today, and just kept thinking that it read like an onion article.

Middlefield police said the woman's husband lost control of one of the reins. She was forced to jump out of the buggy and was injured.

Their six children were riding in the buggy at the time. None of them was hurt.

Anyway...Question for those equestrian types out there.
I have seen the runaway carts and stuff in the westerns, but I have usually seen them in context of the horse being spooked.
Is there more to losing control of the reins?

[farmerjumperdon]

Well - not to hijack, but since you mentioned The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28962

Don't know whether to call it incorrect, poignant, biting, ??? But it is definitely The Onion all the way. Some of their stuff is too close to the truth to be outright funny.

[NEOWatcher]

Well - not to hijack, but since you mentioned The Onion:...
Uhm...excuse me, but when someone hijacks, it's usually because of a sub-discussion of the original post. Not just a passing reference to something.

Besides, you just started a thread here less than 2 weeks ago (http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=59754&highlight=ONION) to discuss that [publication]. Are you having memory problems?

[farmerjumperdon]

Well, I suppose if he dropped just one, the horse could interpret the one-sided pressure as a command to turn. (A well trained horse trained to neck-rein will respond to relatively small differences in rein pressure form side-to-side; turning just based on the weight of the rein lying on one side of the neck or the other).

I could see a very low speed sojurn into the ditch as the guy at the reins hollered in vein for the horse to stop while it just plodded dutifully off the side of the road until the buggy tipped.

He probably should have jumped off immediately upon dropping the rein and just walked out front and led the horse to a controlled stop by hand. This might have been seen as way too daring - too much of an Indiana Jones move. Wouldn't want to show too much hubris in that culture you know.

One day you're seen hopping off a moving wagon - next thing you know your usual seat in the pew is taken. "He's a bit of a firebrand" said Ethel Bottilbiggums about Enid's great adventure. "We just don't need that kind of attention around here."

How ironic that Enid's staying the course and riding the buggy into the ditch ended up getting them on the evening news - WITH PICTURES!!!

[farmerjumperdon]

Uhm...excuse me, but when someone hijacks, it's usually because of a sub-discussion of the original post. Not just a passing reference to something.

Besides, you just started a thread here less than 2 weeks ago (http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=59754&highlight=ONION) to discuss that [publication]. Are you having memory problems?

You're excused.

[farmerjumperdon]

I didn't start the thread to discuss the publication, but to share the specific article. At least that was the intent.

No memory problems, at least not on that level. I do have moments when details get goofed up. But so far, at least on the level of general events (like having started a therad) I'm still pretty good.

[Noclevername]

Well - not to hijack, but since you mentioned The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28962

Don't know whether to call it incorrect, poignant, biting, ??? But it is definitely The Onion all the way. Some of their stuff is too close to the truth to be outright funny.

Which article were you highlighting? The Sudanese kid one was kinda sad, but the one I found too-true-to-be-funny was the "Nobody tellin' me 'bout my baby (http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/aint_nobody_telling_me_what_my)" one, simply because I've seen far too many people exactly like that-- and far too many kids with majorly messed up lives (or deaths) resulting from that --to think it's a parody.

[NEOWatcher]

I didn't start the thread to discuss the publication, but to share the specific article. At least that was the intent.
Even so, it still would have been much more appropriate. Especially given that the title was non-descript and showed no intent of the thread.

But; thanks for the rein reply anyway.

[Paracelsus]

Is there more to losing control of the reins?

Yes. There is the 'running-away of the horse' part; the 'soiling of the pants' part; the 'falling out of the saddle' part; and the 'going bump on the ground' part. The 'soiling of the pants' part may occur at any point during that sequence after the 'running away of the horse' part has happened.

Sorry NEOWatcher...couldn't resist. ;)

[farmerjumperdon]

Even so, it still would have been much more appropriate. Especially given that the title was non-descript and showed no intent of the thread.

But; thanks for the rein reply anyway.

And I'll rein in the non-related, and barely related tangents.