This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This evening I had a 6:00 pm lesson that was a double. My young 15 year old navigator Mccauley and another lady Shani. They both were kinda sore from all the riding that they have been doing, so they both begged and actually jumped up and down to go out on a Carriage ride instead. So I gave in and had them go and get Yolie and brush her and give her all her special little treats. Out came the harness and we were hitched and on our way. A beautiful day. All my neighbors waved as usually. Mccauley wanted to know if we could go to her house, so we went thur the woods and over the hills to Mccauley's house. Her parents were home and had to come out and pet Yolie and admire her Mohawk. It was about 7:30 on our way back we went on same trail that we had taken. Everyone was laughing and having a good time. There is one spot on the trail were it has quite a big dip, so I asked them to get off while I go over it. Just as we come up out of it a man jumps from out of the trees and starts screaming at us about how we can't go on the trail and he won't let us by. I tell him to leave us alone and he continues to scream very loudly. I tell the girls to get back on and lets just get out of there. This man tries to grab ahold of Yolie and I tell her to go. He looses his grip and yells that he is getting a gun and is going to shoot us and the horse. The girls are scrambling to get on the cart Shani was farther behind, because of the big jolt forward that I asked Yolie to do to get rid of the man. She was trying to catch up when I herd gun shots being fired. I told Mccauley to call 911 now on her cell phone . She handed me the phone. The mans wife was also there. When he realized that I had called 911 he gave her the gun and she ran to their car and took off. I was able to read the license plate to the dispatcher. At this point the man came running at me and tried to pull me off the cart. I beat the _Sh&[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:Sh&[EMAIL PROTECTED]) out of him with my whip! All the wile on the phone will 911. 10 cop cars showed up at lighting speed with all their assault rifles. They surrounded him and cuffed him and thru him in the back of the car. They also caught his wife with the gun. They are both in jail and are facing Felony assault charges with intent to kill. After all that we made it back home with police right behind at 10:30pm. I always thought that I lived in a pretty nice safe area. Now I am very thankful that everything turned out well and no one was hurt. It now makes me think of what I should carry with me for more protection . I am not sure how much I ran him over with the carriage, but it was not enough. Yolie was so good throughout the whole ordeal. I could not have asked for a better horse. PS I never thought about how thankful I am that we have such a good extremely fast responding police force as I have never had to use them. Bonnie Morris in Western Washington Just glad that they are caught
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