HINDI REVEALS MORE SHOCKING RODEO SECRETS
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:
CHICAGO––Dubbed “The Flying Nut” in the
October edition of Outdoor Life for flying his paraglider
between geese and hunters last year, Chicago Animal
Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi hates to be ignored.
Indeed Hindi isn’t ignored when he visits
rodeos lately. Since the CBS tabloid TV show H a r d
Copy on September 17 and 18 broadcast some of Hindi’s
footage of rodeo promoters electroshocking bulls to make
them buck, he’s often found himself under video surveillance,
while rodeos affiliated with the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association have abruptly disallowed
videotaping by spectators, from the Adirondack
Stampede in Glens Falls, New York, to a string of
California rodeos that Hindi visited in early October.
But Hindi’s questions of rodeo organizers and
the PRCA are being ignored. Though PRCA rodeo rules
ban the use of electroshock for any purpose other than
moving bulls into holding chutes, and dictate that electric
prods are to be used “as little as possible,” the PRCA
has not responded to inquiries from both Hindi and ANIMAL
PEOPLE as to what action it may be taking
against such luminaries as Cotton Rosser, whose Flying
U Rodeo Company is a major PRCA stock supplier.