Downtown offers two very romantic excursions to visitors to our fair city: gondola rides on the canal--a bargain at $75 when the ones in Venice, Italy go for 50 euros--and horse drawn carriage rides at $25.
Cat has been on me since we moved down here in '03 to take her on one. I have been trying to avoid it for the obvious exploitation of animals who are rumored to be made deaf so motorcars don't spook them. But also because I don't like horses, and I have almost hit these carriages a few times myself. It doesn't appear to be a romantic carriage ride around Central Park: more like a blind dodge 'em through a sea of lost out-of-towners driving erratically around our one-ways and an ever-growing population of taxis from hell. I'm not going to pay $25 to white-knuckle it for a half hour when I can do that for free on my bicycle.
This weekend, my worst fears came to life: Motorist jailed in horse-carriage crash
Another quality Indianapolis driver got high on who-knows-what but never got around to getting a driver's license (this laissez-faire attitude towards responsible car operation is pretty common) and slammed into a carriage. Luckily a dropout from Broad Ripple HS (go Rockets!) was smoking outside and jumped into action. He tried yelling "Whoa!" to stop the horse, which didn't seem to work. But he did pull on the reigns and eventually got it to stop. This only reinforces the rumor the horses are made deaf.
So what have we learned? High school dropouts aren't worthless, smoking is good for you sometimes, and Cat is getting a gondola ride on the canal when the weather warms up.
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