Home on the Range
This story out of Wyoming reminds me that when I was a kid we had a guy who would ride his horse to the VA (which was the only place you could get a drink, it being a private club in a dry county). The deputies all knew he was coming home drunk, but the horse knew the way and got him home reliably. He was just accepted as one of the local characters. I don’t know if he was a WWII or Korean War veteran; I was just a child, but I remember dad laughing about it with the other firefighters.
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Horse = early version of self-driving car
Elevator operator = early version of automatic elevator with voice recognition and AI that can tell you what floor to go to to find which products
This story reminds me of a time when a handsome young cowboy "drove" me home from the bar on horseback because the friend I had gone with had taken off with the car. It was a beautiful, star-filled Montana night and a memory I cherish. Thank you for the jog to my memory. 0>;~}
Unintentional on my part, but you are certainly welcome!
There was a gent who did that in South Dakota in the late 1990s. The problem was he was riding along the highway east from Pierre, and endangering the horse as well as himself. The story went that the state police finally forced him to stop because of the risk to the horse of being hit by a car. I didn’t read the news story myself, so I don’t know for certain.
LittleRed1
It seems an entirely reasonable idea- this part though is just wrong-
"He noted that the concept of “implied consent” — that law enforcement officers can pull a suspect’s biological matter upon probable cause of intoxicated driving — only applies when a person is control of a motor vehicle; and the motor vehicle is on a public street or highway."
It's not true. A bicycle is a vehicle and you're subject to all the rules of the road on one, including drunk driving rules, and rightly so. It's not like a horse though.
The topic riding horses in an inebriated state reminds me of this Narragansett Beer ad. Gansett Beer ads on televised Red Sox games helped me get get through the disaster of the Sox between Ted Williams (1939-1960) and the Impossible Dream year (1967). I was too young to sample Gansett beer, which I later found out was of a much lower quality than their Nichols and May ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKmSS5oo3s
Gringo
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