“Peta, the horse is here”
This is my emotional support horse, I need it with me on the train.
Used to work for a transit agency. I didn’t know before my training that miniature horses are recognized service animals that are permitted at least for that agency (depends on a venue’s ability to reasonably accommodate them). I never saw one while I was working there though. Doesn’t include emotional support animals, but I thought it was interesting
True transit riders know you just keep your head down and don’t engage. The fact that the horses were noticed at all means people were not riding transit correctly.
How did they even fit on the bus? I know for sure my local buses couldn’t fit a horse ubless you removed all the seating. Do American buses not have seats?
Sometimes there’s a large flat elevator area for wheelchair access, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one big enough for not one, but two horses, unless they were miniature horses.
Oh yeah, miniature horses would fit. Some ponies might too, I suppose.
They just passed through, in the front door and out the back. Full-sized horses, the article has pictures. The owner wanted pictures for some event he was leading.
they where heading to work smh
What? Horses aren’t members of the public now?
Can’t have shit in Detroit.
People: Why do you think you have to drive everywhere in Detroit? We have buses.
The buses:
“Bus won’t move until everyone takes a seat.”
In the category of “unsafe incidents” in Detroit. Horses on buses is very mild.
“What if the horse used the bathroom on the bus?“
Their public transport buses have bathrooms!? How would a horse fit into a bathroom?
Quite poorly, one would imagine.
you can probably squeeze a horse into the bathtub. It’s going to make a mess if they try to have a shower though
Hey, we just won some big elections. It’s time for horses to get their own bus service!
Universal public transport!
🧑✈️: exact change only please!
🐴: $3.50? But I dont carry loose change anymore. Nevermind, I’ll walk today.
(DDG search image from usatoday)This is the type of thing I would expect to be an AI prank.
I don’t think it should be allowed, but I wouldn’t complain if there were no incidents.
Unfortunately if the bus got into an accident, they’re half-ton freestanding projectiles inside a passenger cabin. People would probably die that wouldn’t have otherwise.
The bus was stopped the whole time. Statistically very unlikely to get in a crash.
But not impossible.
Actually, everybody dies eventually
Or if the horse started panicking.
So are half the passengers.
So are some humans, what about luggage and other stuff? That logic could apply to anything. I had to take the bus because my vehicle battery is dead, and I’ve got a 20kg solid brick taking it to get a new one basically. That’s gonna do more to someone than a horse.
How are you comparing a 500kg horse to a 20kg piece of luggage? That’s more than order of magnitude less, plus luggage doesn’t tend to be propped up high on legs.
Does the concept of surface area not exist to you?
Getting crushed by a horse may be survivable, but a battery bouncing up and hitting your head isn’t going to be.
Why would you think it would stay only on the floor? The horse would fall over likely and only take the feet out. So that’s not as dangerous in that situation either. But neither are the only possibility.
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No, horses are still bigger than a car battery.
Yes that’s why it’s potentially less dangerous. Surface area. You may survive a horse flying at you at 50 km/h, but a battery will take your head clean off.
Surface area.
Surface area has little to do with this equation, it’s the mass; a flying horse will have much more inertia behind it, even at lower speeds.
more inertia behind it
And what do you think happens when that inertia has 5000x the surface area to disperse that energy….?
Also, you seriously need explained the difference between something that is deformable and something that isn’t?
Brother, a horse can kill you at zero MPH. It can fucking sit on you and you will die. You’re wrong, we’ve told you why, the horse wins, full stop.
All I can think of is the poo
I heard that’s nothing new in Detroit
This sounds like an early moderate giving their view on a civil rights topic
