HorseWatch NYC: Danger ahead

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Danger ahead

Putting us all in harm's way

This kind of reckless behavior speaks for itself: it is dangerous and it endangers the public safety. All those people around, and the driver surely doesn't have his eyes on the road or his horse.
Video from March 8, 2009, 72nd St. east-west transverse in Central Park.
Courtesy of YouTube member "DriversRunninScared"

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She'll vacation elsewhere...

We are a family of five, we live in Toronto...the horse-drawn carriages are one reason why we haven't been to NYC since seeing animals suffering would ruin our vacation. A few years ago we went to Chicago without knowing that Chicago had horse-drawn carriages. It was a SAD sight and we vowed never to visit another city where horses are being used in this way.

Marce, in a comment to the New York Post (1/31/09)

Eyewitness to a needless tragedy

The blogger Ryan J. Davis recounts what he saw on the day that poor young Spotty died, in January 2006:

"I stood outside of VYNL Diner waiting for my lunch date in early January 2006. I looked up ninth avenue and saw a horse-drawn carriage, speeding out of control, heading downtown. The driver couldn't get the horse to slow and, as it approached fiftieth Street, they slammed into a passing car. The driver was thrown from the carriage and was badly injured. The horse ended up under the car.
It was a shocking sight that I won't soon forget.