You will get an OWI if you ride a horse drunk.
Source: I know a guy who trained his horse to ride from the bar to his house on its own. Cops still pulled him over because he was sleeping on the horse.
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That is a shockingly cheap horse.
US government will let you adopt a horse or mule per year for super cheap as long as you can care for them and can pick them up
My wife and I are considering a mule for tasks around our acre and it's less than getting most other animals
That’s all well and good, but I’ve spent years around horses and owners…long enough to know that I’d never want one, at least not one you’d actually intend to use for any sort of riding if I had a choice.
Animals that can be cranky, bite, kick, needs farriers, training, vet bills, meds, food, tack, trailer, shelter, stable, or barn, land to keep the horse healthy and not too confined, constant work for cleanup mucking stalls…
Every tike you want to go somewhere you hope the horse is agreeable, feet are ok, saddle it up when it maybe doesn’t want to go, get there at a leisurely walk (can’t gallop or trot the whole time), bring food and hope there’s water for the animal….etc. etc.
$1750 is not horse money. Not by a long shot. Not in the context of this hypothetical argument where one might trade a horse for a car. How many bags of groceries does one bring home on a horse? Oh, now we have to buy a wagon?
There’s a reason people traded these magical animals for cars.
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Ignoring lack of parking, slow travel and waste disposal, it's more like 3-6k if you already live on a farm. 5-10k if you board it with someone, and you'll likely need a car to get you to the stables.
A bicycle however...
Believe it or not, riding a horse while drunk is also an offense in many places.
Except you can't drink and ride a bike in many areas. I doubt most cops would enforce it though.
I had a friend back in my younger years who got a drinking and driving ticket on his bicycle. Around 1995.
I was drunk and high out of my gourd one night biking home along Bloor Street and got a ticket for speeding lol. This was maybe 2004. I have thankfully matured since then.
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You can in Germany. I only once fell into some bushes, but since I could not remember that it does not count.
I'm just here to appreciate horseface gigachad, nei-ei-ei-ei-eighhhhh 😆
What constitutes reliable is a matter of opinion I suppose, but the first concrete statement of fact:
0 emissions
Wrong, right out of the gate.
Yeah, don't spend too much time anywhere near a horse and maybe you can think that. You can even ride one for a bit and probably not notice. But as soon as you need to muck out stalls and get a whiff of horse fart right in your face, you'll change your tune.
Horse poop everywhere.
Surprisingly one of the more tolerable smelling fecal matter on the planet.
Fun fact, before cars came around it used to be a job to clean up the horse poop from roads. The job faded away as cars grew in popularity.
so now what happens if you got a horse and it shits on the road?
If you're in my area, apparently just leave it there. I used to bike to work and had to slalom around mounds of horse crap. Apparently people just expect the wind/rain to take care of things...
No idea, but if there is someone getting paid solely to do that job, there certainly isn't an industry behind it like before. One of the fears growing from around that time was that so many would lose their jobs due to the advancement in technology. It's a reoccurring rhetoric as tech advances more and more.
Don't get my town's Facebook group involved in this question. Most people: Eeewwww! Dog owners: I pick up after my dog, horse riders should also use poo bags! Gardeners: Where is it? I'll bring my wheelbarrow.
My town is in England so you know the rain will wash it away soon enough.
These prices are ridiculously incorrect, but we can dream and strive to build a horsepilled world.
My in-laws have some horses on their little hobby farm. They grow and bale their own hay which gives them an excuse to play with their antique tractors and makes it affordable enough to keep the "hay burners" around. I agree the prices anon provides are pretty rediculously low
Also the cost of fixing a horse is a new horse
If you do it right, it's just a knife, some bandage stuff, and a tranquilizer.
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