In this era of AI video depicting scenes from the virtually impossible to the entirely plausible, it’s easy to dismiss two full-size horses boarding a Detroit city bus.
Well, turns out it really happened.
The bus driver was apparently cool with it as he lowered the wheelchair ramp to help the horses board the bus. The horses were not alone, they were led by two humans.
Eventually, after a bit of coaxing, both horses got onboard and took up the entire aisle.
The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) says horses aren’t allowed on their buses, and they opened an investigation . . . trying to figure out if they were trying to pass as “service animals,” or what.
What they found was that one of the horse handlers, Jordan Williams, is with a group called “Urban City Cowboys,” and he was in Detroit helping with a fundraiser that gives children horseback rides.
A bus pulled up, and he asked the driver if they could bring the horses onboard, just at the stop, for a photo. And the driver agreed.
Jordan said he’s done this on other city buses, and joked, “We walked on, and I must tell you the buses are a lot smaller than they used to be, or I may have been a little bigger . . . it wasn’t like I was tracking down the bus. The point is just to bring light to [people] . . . that there are cowboys that look like us.”
But this is probably the last time it’ll happen.
DDOT said, “[We are] aware of a recent incident where two horses were allowed to walk through a bus . . . we are taking appropriate steps to address this incident as it is not consistent with [our] policy and potentially creates an unsafe and uncomfortable ride for our passengers.”
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