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[–] 58 points 1 day ago (1 child)

This is my emotional support horse, I need it with me on the train.

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  • [–] 10 points 22 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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  • 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago

    What? Horses aren't members of the public now?

    Can't have shit in Detroit.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago

    Hey, we just won some big elections. It's time for horses to get their own bus service!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    In the category of "unsafe incidents" in Detroit. Horses on buses is very mild.

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  • Universal public transport!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

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

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

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  • [–] 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    "Peta, the horse is here"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (24 children)

    I don't think it should be allowed, but I wouldn't complain if there were no incidents.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (20 children)

    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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  • [+] -13 points 1 day ago* (14 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -7 points 1 day 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 you think it would stay only on the floor? The horse would fall over likely and only take the feet out. So that’s not as dangerous in that situation either. But neither are the only possibility.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    No, horses are still bigger than a car battery.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (8 children)

    more inertia behind it

    And what do you think happens when that inertia has 5000x the surface area to disperse that energy….?

    Also, you seriously need explained the difference between something that is deformable and something that isn’t?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

    Brother, a horse can kill you at zero MPH. It can fucking sit on you and you will die. You're wrong, we've told you why, the horse wins, full stop.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (6 children)

    All you’ve told anyone is how little you understand of even the simplest physics. Dropping a battery a few inches on your skull can kill you as well. What point do you think that was making lol?

    There’s plenty of possibilities, focusing on one, while ignoring all the other details is just foolish as hell dude.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

    Why would somebody be dropping a car battery on somebody's skull on the bus?

    Did you lose track of the scenario we're discussing here? This is about horses getting onto a bus - large, dangerous, and unpredictable animals who shouldn't be allowed near random people. This isn't about Steve, the guy who goes around assaulting people with car batteries in this weird make-believe hypothetical scenario you're trying to force people to argue against when we're talking about a thing that actually happened.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (4 children)

    You seriously can’t see the commonality between a launched battery because of a collision and one being dropped….? Jeeze, you really don’t have any understanding of physics do you?

    But keep bloviating dude, you’re only making yourself look more foolish.

    You’re the one that suggested a “flying” horse, so why wouldn’t a battery be in the same scenario? You’re picking your details and points, and are now just failing spectacularly at trying to even make a coherent point.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    My guy, you might as well have said "If Goku got on the bus and hit you with a Kamehameha wave, that'd kill you too" for all it matters. Goku isn't real, and neither is this Acme villain you've invented who goes around dropping anvils on people's heads.

    Have you ever been on a bus? Because nobody's bringing car batteries on the bus. They're not even allowed in the first place; no explosive, flammable, or corrosive materials allowed. You're arguing something that doesn't exist, and wouldn't matter if it did because in case you didn't notice we currently live in a reality where horses getting onto the bus is literally more plausible than somebody dropping a car battery on your head.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

    Anyone with a broken down car may have too, lol. I even already presented this possible scenario in my original comment. If what you’re suggesting was true, people wouldn’t be able to enter with cellphones, wheelchairs, or any other battery powered device. Ignorance of the drivers is too large, but if you explain why, most will let you, since you know, it’s not illegal…. You do know the bus has a few already in it….? Yeah…? Or even someone bringing home a case of drinks, same weight and possible consequences, and totally legal. You’re focusing too much on the irrelevant shit lol.

    Here’s even a picture of one and someone doing so.

    You’re just a fool I guess, dunno what anime has to do with the original topic.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    [comment upon comment inventing about hypothetical scenarios and other strawmen] [...] "You’re focusing too much on the irrelevant shit lol."

    Bruh. This has to be a joke, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago*

    My first comment started off with “luggage”, that’s something most people take on a bus, I than went on into a few specific EXAMPLES that could potentially be worse, did you seriously think that was an exhaustive list? Or that any of them can’t or don’t frequently already happen? A mobility scooter is far worse than a horse, and those are allowed. So what do you have to say about that you obtuse troll?

    Keep this up, you’re my entertainment on a dreary day, this is fucking hilarious how far you keep digging. You’re ignoring all of my comment to focus on one single specific detail, that’s not even important to the overall point.

    Get a life.

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  • [–] 11 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    How did they even fit on the bus? I know for sure my local buses couldn't fit a horse ubless you removed all the seating. Do American buses not have seats?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago

    they where heading to work smh

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    I didn’t see shit

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago

    People: Why do you think you have to drive everywhere in Detroit? We have buses.

    The buses:

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Maybe they identify as humans.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    「走れ、走れ、ウマ娘!」

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    This is the type of thing I would expect to be an AI prank.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    Probably a fake story, Haley Stevens doesn't seem like she would ever take a public bus

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  • 🧑‍✈️: exact change only please!
    🐴: $3.50? But I dont carry loose change anymore. Nevermind, I'll walk today.

    (DDG search image from usatoday)

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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago

    The guts of horse people!

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    the chuds from ricka nd morty has finally arrived.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I understand this is seen as a joke and wouldn't do anything aside from being annoyed, but as someone highly allergic to horses, my eyes would start watering and I'd start sniffling almost immediately if I'd be this close to them.

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  • "Bus won't move until everyone takes a seat."

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