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News Wire: Man tries to take horse on passenger train in Austria

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Friday, August 24, 2018 9:08 AM

Austria’s state railway believes its trains have plenty of horsepower. So it turned down a man who tried to bring his horse onto a passenger train. The incident happened Wednesday in the Austrian state of Styria, where a man identified only as ...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/08/24-man-tries-to-take-horse-on-passenger-train-in-austria

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, August 24, 2018 11:08 AM

Not sure the OBB suggestion to take a rocking horse on the train instead is much better!

And they show the wrong end of the horse in the graphic, I think, for the major concern ...

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, August 25, 2018 7:45 PM

Geez, didn't he buy a ticket for the horse?  If he did, what's the problem? Whistling

Reminds me of a story from WW2.  A guy tried to get a draft exemption from his local board by claiming his horse as a dependant.

"Well the way she eats oats, she sure is a dependant!"

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