• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    They were really just upset the horses wouldn’t sit in the back of the bus where they belonged.

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    13 hours ago

    “What if the horse used the bathroom on the bus?“

    Their public transport buses have bathrooms!? How would a horse fit into a bathroom?

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    16 hours ago

    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.

    • YexingTudou@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      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

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        14 hours ago

        The bus was stopped the whole time. Statistically very unlikely to get in a crash.

      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
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        16 hours ago

        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.

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          16 hours ago

          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.

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            16 hours ago

            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 think it would stay only on the floor?

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            16 hours ago

            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.

            • Chozo@fedia.io
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              14 hours ago

              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.