Alberta woman threatened with jail time for riding horse around town, rides again
Settlers began arriving here in the 1870s also arriving by horse 150 years later is Shelby opim a proud member of high River's Western Heritage I love my horses yes my auntie was a barrel racer so I kind of got into it when I was younger three cream two sweetener and a
Honey crer Donut for the horse she takes Charlie everywhere even for coffee to make him comfortable in different environments bomb proof I can scream I can yell stuff like this shouldn't scare them so this makes them safe when he goes to a home nobody's getting hurt and
He's not going to go for me but about 6 months ago Shelby and Charlie began running into trouble with the law they have pulled me over six times in the last like six months the last time was Tuesday and they told me that I was no longer allowed to ride in town I
Couldn't have horses here I could be arrested and put in jail Town folk didn't want any trouble they said my biggest thing was I had concern for her with the traffic and knowing horses horses are just animals and they don't know what traffic is all the time so
Peace officers got legal advice on barred horses from the town Horse Feathers said Shelby our bylaw says that we can our High River page you can actually go on says horses are a mean of Transportation the only issue is they poop Tuesday the mayor felt he had to
Step right into the middle of it sometimes you got to clean up the mess afterwards so that's what we're doing turns out Shelby was right mayor Snodgrass says things got goofy when peace officers got legal advice without first going to council we're the town of High River we a small egg based
Community Shel is more than welcome to ride or horse in through town you respect the public you respect the other drivers you're doing it safely but the other thing is the drivers in their vehicles need to be doing the exact same thing and that was that I will continue
Riding in town as long as I'm allowed to the two settled things the oldfashioned way with a hand Jake Doug Bas Global News