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
