man tries to take a pony on a train.. (honest!)

[desprateseagull]

BBC News - Man tries to board train with pony in Wrexham

think this merits a NSC Gold entry, from the start..

 

[Taybha]

makes a change from a sheep i suppose , gotta love the welsh

 

[Hastings woody]

That makes a change its usually full of pigs in wrexham the boy done good pulling a pony.

 

[Mammoth]

I just love how he thought buying a ticket would make things alright!

 

[Racek]

I just love how he thought buying a ticket would make things alright!

Did he try and get a childs ticket being under 16?

 

[Pavilionaire]

The sheer fact he though he'd get 2 tickets! You've got to admire his unBRIDLEd optimism...

 

[NMH]

That makes a change its usually full of pigs in wrexham the boy done good pulling a pony.

 

[Hastings woody]

If it were a sheep in cardiff no one would av batted an eyelid.

 

[JonathanLivingstonSeagull]

don't really see why reporting an odd item of news deserves a pre-emptive entry into gold...

people are already trying too hard to be funny / a watched pot never boils / etc! etc! / angst angst

 

[fataddick]

I don't get why people think that's so odd. As long as it's not the rush hour, a pony doesn't take up much more room than a guide dog or a bicycle or a baby buggy. Plus, you can get guide ponies now (although they're much rarer than guide dogs), would a train company stop a blind person getting on train if their guide animal was a pony rather than a dog. Wouldn't they get sued? If he bought two tickets, he should be allowed on with it. We are trying to encourage more people to use public transport, but idiotic decisions like this means he probably ended up having to take the pony there in his car.

 

[sir albion]

The pony should be allowed on what a shambles

Quality

 

[Racek]

I don't get why people think that's so odd. As long as it's not the rush hour, a pony doesn't take up much more room than a guide dog or a bicycle or a baby buggy. Plus, you can get guide ponies now (although they're much rarer than guide dogs), would a train company stop a blind person getting on train if their guide animal was a pony rather than a dog. Wouldn't they get sued? If he bought two tickets, he should be allowed on with it. We are trying to encourage more people to use public transport, but idiotic decisions like this means he probably ended up having to take the pony there in his car.

That last sentence made me laugh. Thanks for that.

 

[Arthur]

Ireland 99 pre-season tour, we got the train from Dublin all the way across the country to Galway (where we were playing).

4 things that shocked me on that journey:

1) The carriage was wooden and had big holes between the floor boards (remember 99 not 59) .
2) Despite being wooden people were still smoking on it (remember 99 not 59) .
3) A bloke got on at some stop in the middle of no where with a goat!! No one apart from us seemed to find this odd.
4) The Taxman's guts that day! It's not possible for that much shit to come out of one person.

 

[whitelion]

Thought this was Cockney rhyming slang before opening the thrread - what's new about a pony and trap on a train.

 

[Albumen]

He won't be bothering with his gold card remule this year.

 

[Peever]

Sounds like a quality day out

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I don't get why people think that's so odd. As long as it's not the rush hour, a pony doesn't take up much more room than a guide dog or a bicycle or a baby buggy. Plus, you can get guide ponies now (although they're much rarer than guide dogs), would a train company stop a blind person getting on train if their guide animal was a pony rather than a dog. Wouldn't they get sued? If he bought two tickets, he should be allowed on with it. We are trying to encourage more people to use public transport, but idiotic decisions like this means he probably ended up having to take the pony there in his car.

Lots of guide ponies these days, on trains, in supermarkets and even in schools...

 

[On the Left Wing]

It was our story .... the thing is the car park is wide open to public view and entrance and lobby is tiny .. the CCTV footage is amazing .... mind you I caught a guy yesterday putting two dogs into his shopping trolley to go into Sainsburys in Wrexham.. think he wanted to trade them for some fresh lamb

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Did anybody manage to get any decent qoutes from the weirdo, or was he still feeling a little horse?

 

[British Bulldog]

Perhaps he thought the train was being stabled there?