Horses exempt from Poop Laws?
02
October
Here we have a reader who is a bit disturbed at the fecal land-masses that our City’s Horse Fleet leaves behind.
He sent in some pics of this past weekend’s Arts & Music Festival, and the horses that dropped 2.9 magnitude droppings on 8th & Washington, by Margherita’s Restaurant.
I’m wondering myself if the City has some kind of “system” in place, where the officer has to “reach out” to a sanitation worker each time “Silver” makes a “brown”…
The reader says:
“Clean up after your dog? Horse? I guess the Hoboken police force is exempt from this law.”
City code says (and it’s fun to read out loud – “soling action”):
§ 93-16. Deposits, droppings and fecal matter.
“No person shall suffer or permit any animal which such person owns or controls to soil, urinate, defecate or deposit any droppings or fecal matter on any public sidewalk or area adjacent thereto, or upon any public grounds or parks, unless such person shall make a reasonable effort to clean such droppings, urination and fecal matter in good faith and within a reasonable time so as to prevent such soiling action, which soiling action is declared to be a public nuisance detrimental to public health. It shall not be deemed a violation of this section, if the offense is committed by a Guide dog.”
October 2nd 2007 - 16:18:55 |
I think this bears the more important question for Hoboken:
Why do we even have horses?????
Oh yeah, I forgot.. If we didn’t have horses, who would pay rent to Al Arezzo for his condemned building??
The horses are just not necessary in this town… Granted, they only pay 3-4000 a month for that place to keep the horses, but couldn’t that $40k a year that is wasted be used to hire another police officer instead??
I guess that would be too logical…
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October 2nd 2007 - 16:23:05 |
This always bothered me when hiking with my dogs. They make a big stink (pun) about cleaning up after your dogs on the trails but horse owners can leave manhole size dropping wherever they please.
Not to mention the idiocy of dog owners who bag up the sh!t and leave the blue bags by the side of the trail.
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October 2nd 2007 - 16:53:11 |
“sidewalk or area adjacent to…” may be the key. i have always believed that “curbing” your dog is legal. which would suggest that animal dropping in the street would be legal. horses don’t sh1t on sidewalks. also, since horses are not carnivores their fecal matter doesn’t contain the same parasites. horse sh1t is used for fertilizer. i don’t want to step in it, but it’s not the health hazard that dog sh1t is.
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October 2nd 2007 - 17:02:43 |
The same reason cops can make illegal turns and park in fire zones.
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October 2nd 2007 - 17:21:02 |
“horse sh1t is used for fertilizer. i don’t want to step in it, but it’s not the health hazard that dog sh1t is.”
In fact, in olden days, people would actually scoop up waste from the horses after they passed by for use in their gardens.
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October 2nd 2007 - 22:14:36 |
Let’s just hope the horse doesn’t crap on the Astro Turf.
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October 3rd 2007 - 16:53:13 |
I also saw this and wondered how long it would take to clean up. I have seen several occasions when horse poop has been left for days. I once actually even called to complain because it sat in Columbus park right in the walk way for 3 days. I think Mounties should be required to carry poop bags to curb their horse. LOL. a garbage size bag should do.
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October 3rd 2007 - 18:20:12 |
Where’s the big “horse diapers” that they usually put behind the ponies to catch the stuff? No room in the budget this year?
And I echo rapperd – Why in the hell do we even need horses in this town????? There’s already enough horsesh*t going on down at city hall…
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October 5th 2007 - 00:15:20 |
Here! Here! If I have to clean-up after beloved canine pals, then, by all means, there ought to be a rule about horse poop. Since it IS fertilizer, then maybe the horses should aim for the heroic patches of grass the seep through cracks in sidewalks. Kind… of…
li-i-ike… beloved canine pals do!
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October 5th 2007 - 00:17:19 |
homeworld wrote:
Yeah. They also blindly skip past “Stop” signs.
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October 5th 2007 - 00:23:58 |
Nothing like horse sh*t on your tires, huh?
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