Jousting Accident Kills One

The article makes it sound as if a fatal jousting accident is a freak accident. But using horses to charge at each other with wooden poles (even if they have balsa wood tips) sounds like a pretty risky activity.

For more info see the Reuters/ABC News story at:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/23/2066866.htm

Or another story at:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3087282.ece