Re: horsey stuff

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I know people who _break_ horses meant for sprinting, and all of their
cervical columns are in tact.  They aren't even experts, just college
students.  People accidently die from all sorts of stupid things, and
those are impossible to quantify with statistics (die rolls)

Jevan

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Wright Frazier wrote:

> Accidents such as Reeve had were not that uncommon for people who ride
> a whole lot.  Horseback travel is quite dangerous because horses are
> skittish animals and will throw a rider if frightened.
> 
> Wright
> 
> > > > As I said why should it kill a normal person? I was thinking 1d4 myself.
> > > > I think falling off a horse really shouldn't do more damage than falling
> > > > or being stabed with a dagger.
> > > >
> > > > 						Greg
> > >
> > > Tell that to Christopher Reeve.
> > >
> > > -Sean
> > >
> > he's not a normal person he's Superman. And it didn't kill him he got
> > paralyzed which goes with my theory about bad luck. Instead of falling
> > he got grappled to throw from the horse.
> > 						Greg
> > 
> 
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