Tourists and Central Park Scumbags Keep Horses Working
It isn’t safe for planes to take off, and cars driving around are sliding like they’re on slip and slides. What do the scumbags who run the hansom cabs do? Why, they keep them working, of course!
No one I know in NYC is in favor of these insane hansom cab rides, and the city itself promised to deal with the conditions these poor horses are forced to work under. In all the time that has passed since, we have nothing that resembles better working conditions for these animals or regulations for their treatment.
Instead, we have hundreds upon hundreds of corn-fed midwesterners in NYC every day with their drawls telling us how ahhhhsum it is to rod a hawrse in nue yoooork siddy.
Animals can’t speak for themselves, and it’s our obligation to be good stewards. That video above should be a wake up call to people that we can do better.
via Gothamist
December 24th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Paved icy streets and competing with cars? Honestly, I think horses and snow aren't that big of a deal, but horses and snow competing with traffic? It's dangerous and unnecessary.
December 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Wait, what? Apparently you can't ride a horse in snow? I'm confused. Hasn't mankind been doing that since like forever?
December 26th, 2008 at 4:20 am
I do not agree with horses being pushed through the city like this. horses belong on farms and ranches not in crowded, smoggy city streets.