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mopinko

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5. welp. say bye bye to carriages in nyc.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 11:31 AM
Yesterday

this shd do it.

my daughter used to drive in chgo. she once saw another carriage drive rt over a car. horse freaked out, driver lost control, and it went up and over. no serious injuries, thankfully.

i’m sad to see them go. ppl have a misguided sense of what the job is like for the horses, compared to other horse’s lives. used to drive her nuts when ppl wd accuse her of mistreating them. they were pampered, compared to where they came from. they were amish horses who were too tame and gentle for the amish.
but…

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