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Location: Bastrop, Texas | What's the purpose of this thread? |
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| I haven't read all the posts and just remember this thread from a while back.
I think the answer to your question is that someone was very surprised that you wouldn't be allowed to wear a helmet at a rodeo. It's one thing not to require a helmet and quite another to ban their use. As the thread continued, it turned into a conversation of: If you don't like it, don't enter it. etc. etc.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | runs4fun - 2016-07-23 9:12 AM
I haven't read all the posts and just remember this thread from a while back.
I think the answer to your question is that someone was very surprised that you wouldn't be allowed to wear a helmet at a rodeo. It's one thing not to require a helmet and quite another to ban their use. As the thread continued, it turned into a conversation of: If you don't like it, don't enter it. etc. etc.
Who cares? You don't have to enter. You don't have to try out for the varsity football team either. You can take dance lessons, chase Pokemon, or play powder puff football. Next thing we'll see is people clamoring for boxers to wear headgear. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Bear - 2016-07-23 8:54 AM
What's the purpose of this thread?
The purpose was to see what people thought since helmets are such a fad now, and if it would indeed deter people from entering. |
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One Grateful Mom
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Location: wolverton,mn | Like I said,the events are all filled all 3 days. The barrel race pays out about 1,900 to win. The rough stock events pay out well too. So no,the entries are just as many and more than they have been for the decades it's been held.
It is a barrel race and rodeo that a lot of people JUST DO NOT MISS.
It is rodeo alumni haven and a huge camp out party for all ages
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | I think it's no different than the shows that REQUIRE a helmet. It's a personal choice and if a show wants to place this stipulation on their show...it's their show. If that's a problem, don't run there.
We didn't run events where helmets were required (many years ago) so I still see it as no one is holding a gun to someones head and saying YOU HAVE TO RUN AT THIS SHOW. Pick and chose people, pick and chose.
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | jbhoot - 2016-06-25 3:42 PM If this is true that NO safety equipment is aloud. I would love to know WHAT insurance company this rodeo has. Because they better get ready to payoff on a HUGE lawsuit just a matter of time. I don't care what the original producer wanted the liability here is unbelievable.
If the rule is stated in the RULES and signed off, I don't see how they could possibly have a law suit. Not to get into a helmet debate, but they do not guarantee safety. Any event is a choice, any event can and will have freak accidents...we make that choice every time we put a foot in the stirrup.
If this were the case, every insurance company would REQUIRE helmets, and vests, and knee pads etc. . . . .
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| Swannranch - 2016-07-26 10:46 AM
jbhoot - 2016-06-25 3:42 PM If this is true that NO safety equipment is aloud. I would love to know WHAT insurance company this rodeo has. Because they better get ready to payoff on a HUGE lawsuit just a matter of time. I don't care what the original producer wanted the liability here is unbelievable.
If the rule is stated in the RULES and signed off, I don't see how they could possibly have a law suit. Not to get into a helmet debate, but they do not guarantee safety. Any event is a choice, any event can and will have freak accidents...we make that choice every time we put a foot in the stirrup.
If this were the case, every insurance company would REQUIRE helmets, and vests, and knee pads etc. . . . .
Maybe Minnesota is a "Assumption of Risk" state. Meaning, by entering a rodeo that has a "no safety equipment rule" you are assuming that you may get hurt. Of all the crazy stupid laws California has, we are an "Assumption of Risk" state which means producers don't have to carry a huge insurance policy to cover the contestants. Contestants can still sue but they probably aren't getting anything if negligence can't be faulted on the producers and facility owners.
When we had our bucking horses are biggest insurance cost was not for the contestants but for the spectators in case an animal was to escape and run through a crowd.
I do think their no safety equipment is dumb and antiquated but that sure wouldn't stop me from entering the barrels if I lived there. |
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| That rodeo advertisement was the stupidest thing I have ever seen! Talk about opening yourself up to a lawsuit. They are telling people that they cannot protect themselves. That's crazy and obviously the people in charge are total morons! And I never wore a helmet for 30 plus yrs of riding until my 12 yr. old daughter asked me when she could take hers off. That was 9 yrs ago and I have been wearing one ever since. Teach by example. Not what is cool and acceptable. I could care less what anyone thinks of me except my family.
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