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    Is horse drink driving illegal?

    Just seen a really surreal thing.

    A gypsy horse with cart is outside an off-licence.

    The driver comes out with a pack of tinnies, cracks one open, and drives off while drinking lager.

    Seeing the gypsy horses here is a regular occurrence, but does this count as drink driving??

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    Drunk in charge of a horse? | Metro.co.uk
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      #3
      Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
      Just seen a really surreal thing.

      A gypsy horse with cart is outside an off-licence.

      The driver comes out with a pack of tinnies, cracks one open, and drives off while drinking lager.

      Seeing the gypsy horses here is a regular occurrence, but does this count as drink driving??
      Being drunk in charge of a horse is an offence, but I think the definition of drunk is subjective. You won't lose your driving licence for it.

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        As well as being drunk in charge of a horse, there's also a charge of "furious riding" that originally applied to horses but has lately been used to good effect against agressive pavement cyclists.

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          Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
          As well as being drunk in charge of a horse, there's also a charge of "furious riding" that originally applied to horses but has lately been used to good effect against agressive pavement cyclists.
          I might have done that, if swearing at boy racers who want to kill me counts.
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            #6
            Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
            As well as being drunk in charge of a horse, there's also a charge of "furious riding" that originally applied to horses but has lately been used to good effect against agressive pavement cyclists.
            Have you got some linkies?

            CYCLING AND THE LAW :: Bike For All >> The essential resource for everyone who cycles... or is thinking about it.
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              #7
              here's one:

              admitted: Facing jail, a ‘wanton’ cyclist in pavement death smash - Times Online
              sentenced: BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Cyclist jailed for pavement death

              so it's actually "wanton and furious"

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                #8
                Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

                so it's actually "wanton and furious"
                Actually, it was causing death by wanton and furious cycling - which is probably fair enough to go to prison for.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
                  A gypsy horse with cart is outside an off-licence.

                  The driver comes out with a pack of tinnies, cracks one open, and drives off while drinking lager
                  Well you know what they say. You can take a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.

                  (a bit slow with that one I know!)

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
                    Just seen a really surreal thing.

                    A gypsy horse with cart is outside an off-licence.

                    The driver comes out with a pack of tinnies, cracks one open, and drives off while drinking lager.

                    Seeing the gypsy horses here is a regular occurrence, but does this count as drink driving??
                    Why is it drink driving ? Did he feed the alcohol to his horse too ? You can be stone drunk in a horse carriage but still not cause accidents since the horse is capable of going on its own.
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