Woman Fined For Transporting Pony In Back Seat

A PINK car, a achromatic pony, and an different crime: a female adjacent nan metropolis of Aachen successful Alsdorf, a municipality successful Germany, was stopped by constabulary erstwhile she was discovered to beryllium transporting a mini Shetland pony successful her trunk during a regular postulation cheque connected September 3. The female had tied nan pony to a metallic ringing wrong nan trunk, and nan backmost seats of nan car had been folded down pinch a carpet placed connected apical of it and a mini bucket of nutrient adjacent nan pony’s mouth.

The constabulary based on that nan pony, weighing astir 150 kilogrammes, could not beryllium transported successful this mode owed to nan consequence it posed for nan animal and nan driver alike: a rear-end collision astatine 50 kilometres an hr could person catapulted nan animal forwards, according to nan officers’ calculations, pinch a unit of 7.5 tonnes. The constabulary declare that not moreover a canine should beryllium transported successful this way, fto unsocial a pony.

The driver was uncooperative and unapologetic, refusing to salary nan €35 fine. She was prohibited from continuing her trip, and a good is now pending against her. 

Not everyone made nan officers’ occupation difficult, however: according to nan Aachen police, contempt its uncooperative owner, nan pony was peculiarly well-behaved and calm.

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