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[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I recall stories told where back in the horse and buggy days you could go out to a pub and get wasted. Then get in your wagon, pass out and the horse knows the way home.

Apparently it was a common gag to switch around your mates horses. They'd end up at each others houses.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago

how old are you to remember all that? and so clearly?

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

[insert Kenneth from 30 Rock being immortal joke here, but yall know Kenneth would never go to a pub]

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 5 days ago

If it wasn't for all the horseshit everywhere that sounds like a simply superior system

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I think this r/askhistorians answer is fascinating too.

Black Beauty, published 1877, has a paragraph complaining about drunk carriage drivers and how a friend was permanently injured by one. Single horse in a small town, probably no biggie. Team of horses, not so great.

[-] homura1650@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Be sure to check state law before doing this.

In Ohia V Miller (2024), Miller was found guilty of operating a vehicle under the influence after he drunkenly drove a horse drawn buggy. This finding was upheld my the appelete court.

In State v Blowers (1986), the Utah Supreme Court found that riding a horse while intoxicated did not qualify as DUI. This finding had 2 parts: A) A horse is not a vehicle and

B) The provision:

Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway is subject to this chapter, except those provisions which by their nature can have no application.

Is unconstitutionally vague.

In the case of Mythbusters v Drunk Driving, the Mybuster found that it is illegal to operate a vehicle while drunk, even on a closed course. However, it is legal for a blind man to operate a vehicle under the direction of a drunk man.

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