Thursday, March 31, 2011
Big stink raised over carriage horses urinating on Chicago streets
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We're going to see more of these stories as the gas prices go up up up and horses become an affordable means of transportation.
Posted by: twerp | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 07:50 AM
Bums urinating on the sidewalks, a plethora of trash, overcrowding of people who do not always wash, and many petro-chomping vehicles are not contributing to the smell at all.
You know what the great outdoors has? Animal feces and urine, including Horses. You know that "Get out for some fresh air" thing? Yeah. That.
Screw it! Replace the horses with big lumbering, diesel-eating busses. That is a much cleaner alternative.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:02 AM
horses cause more pollution than cars.
Posted by: buddy | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:02 AM
Yes, buddy, and cows' burps are causing global warming.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:03 AM
whats the issue? I see homeless people doing this all of the time.
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:11 AM
whats the issue? I see homeless people doing this all of the time.
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:11 AM
Sounds like this is a tourist district where you can take a romantic carriage ride. That's going to stop, I'm with RMM on this one let em' pee.
Posted by: 305club | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:13 AM
Chicago is stinky at the best of times, so how can they tell?
Posted by: Phranqlin | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 08:41 AM
At every stoplight in downtown chicago there are 3 bums trying to wash your windshield for cash. Give them $1 for each piss puddle they wash up (that isn't their own).
Posted by: Adam | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:06 AM
“It seems like a small thing until you realize how prolific horses can be."
Better get used to it. Like twerp pointed out, the way our government is throttling domestic oil production, this is the wave of the future.
Posted by: KDP | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:35 AM
"domestic oil production" will do nothing to drive down oil prices in any significant way.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:41 AM
...which is coming from someone who yells at jerks who have a problem with my car. I love driving my car and about 80% of my trips are completely frivolous.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:43 AM
How about diapers on every politician's mouth for all the shit they spout?
Posted by: American Veteran | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:51 AM
If I may be so impudent as to channel the incomparable Mr James Taranto, this is breaking news from 1851.
Posted by: Pile of Pooh | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:55 AM
How is horse pee on the list of the "Top 500 Biggest Issues Facing Chicago"?
Guess everything else is fixed! Good for them.
Posted by: Tom Weidermeijer | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Golden showers on the Gold Coast.
Posted by: joel | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:00 PM
The horses in downtown charleston,sc have to wear diapers.
Posted by: ckc | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 04:20 PM
so get rid of the carriages and put the horses out to pasture where they can pee wherever they want to.
Posted by: nunya | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 05:35 PM
Fecking people, they stop traffic anyway, it's no big deal to take an extra 30 seconds to spray some BS stuff to kill the scent
Posted by: TequilaJoe | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:46 PM