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Horse can go into burger, as we have recently learned to our horror, but apparently a horse cannot go into a burger bar. A Manchester woman has just been fined for taking her steed into a McDonald's after being refused service in the drive-through lane. The horse did not know any better, the rider should have, and McDonald's quite reasonably would say it has to worry about its liabilities if a customer had been injured. But there is another side to it: here is this animal which, within living memory, provided our main means of mobility and haulage, served us in peace and war, and otherwise underpinned our civilisation, and yet its fate today is to be derided by motorists shouting "you ought not to be on the road!", while driving dangerously close, and demeaned in many other ways. The law and the Highway Code still give riders and horses many rights, but they are not enforced as effectively as they should be.Horse can go into burger, as we have recently learned to our horror, but apparently a horse cannot go into a burger bar. A Manchester woman has just been fined for taking her steed into a McDonald's after being refused service in the drive-through lane. The horse did not know any better, the rider should have, and McDonald's quite reasonably would say it has to worry about its liabilities if a customer had been injured. But there is another side to it: here is this animal which, within living memory, provided our main means of mobility and haulage, served us in peace and war, and otherwise underpinned our civilisation, and yet its fate today is to be derided by motorists shouting "you ought not to be on the road!", while driving dangerously close, and demeaned in many other ways. The law and the Highway Code still give riders and horses many rights, but they are not enforced as effectively as they should be.
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