I have a suggestion for next year’s Omak Suicide Race. Leave the horses, the “loved and well cared for family pet” at home and let’s just have the people run the “humane” race. After all, this great “cultural event” is about human egos. So when the folks stumble into each other at the bottom of Suicide Hill and seriously injure each other, they can simply be euthanized. Then at the end of the race when they run into the Stampede Arena and a couple more collapse in front of the 2,000 spectators, a doctor – hopefully with a straight face – can declare the deaths were from “natural causes.” We’ll see how many more suicide races occur when the members of the Colville Confederated Tribes get to experience the same horrors they inflict on the horses.
Julie Jordan
Stanwood
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