Equine Tripping is Bad

Thanks to Kay'ce I have now found my cause in life. I have been searching for so long, but I have finally found the constituency that I feel most needs my help. It is a good thing I went to all of those years of school so that I am adequately equipped to handle my new calling. And it is... stopping the rampantly spreading practice of equine tripping. True story. Lest you doubt that this is a real problem, please read the below text of a bill currently in front of the AZ state legislature to address this horrifying problem sweeping the nation at frenzied speeds.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 13, chapter 29, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-2910.09, to read:
START_STATUTE13-2910.09. Equine tripping; classification; definitions
A. A person who knowingly or intentionally trips an equine for entertainment or sport is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.
B. A person who is convicted of a first violation of this section:
1. Shall be sentenced to serve not less than forty-eight consecutive hours in jail and is not eligible for probation or suspension of execution of sentence unless the entire sentence is served.
2. Shall pay a fine of not less than one thousand dollars.
C. A person who is convicted of a second violation of this section:
1. Shall be sentenced to serve not less than thirty consecutive days in jail and is not eligible for probation or suspension of execution of sentence unless the entire sentence is served.
2. Shall pay a fine of not less than two thousand dollars.
D. A person who is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of this section:
1. Shall be sentenced to serve not less than ninety consecutive days in jail and is not eligible for probation or suspension of execution of sentence unless the entire sentence is served.
2. Shall pay a fine of not less than two thousand dollars.
E. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Equine" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey or hinny.
2. "Trips" means causing an equine to lose its balance or fall by use of a wire, pole, stick or rope or any other object or by any other means. END_STATUTE

Wow.