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When cars first appeared, there were calls to "clean up our cities" by using cars instead of horses. Horses also regularly killed people.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
When cars first appeared, there were calls to "clean up our cities" by using cars instead of horses.
Horses also regularly killed people.
- testvox 9y agoNot to mention the shit > “In vacant lots, horse manure was piled as high as sixty feet. It lined city streets like banks of snow. In the summer time, it stank to the heavens; when the rains came, a soupy stream of horse manure flooded the crosswalks and seeped into people’s basements. Today, when you admire old New York brownstones and their elegant stoops, rising from street level to the second-storey parlour, keep in mind that this was a design necessity, allowing a homeowner to rise above the sea of horse manure." http://gothamist.com/2013/07/19/why_we_have_stoops.php http://gothamist.com/2013/07/19/why_we_have_stoops.php
- goatlover 9y agoThat's unappealing, but car fumes, noise and using up 1/4th of the city isn't all that appealing either, not to mention accidents are worse. You just get used to it if you live in a big city, probably like how people got used to horses and manure.
- b0rsuk 9y agoOh please, like cars aren't the most common cause of violent death! There are many good arguments against horses, but it isn't one of them.
- skookumchuck 9y agoAs I recall, horses killed people at much higher rates than cars.