Eve
May 14, 2005, 1:32pm
1
I screamed prettily and grasped at my petticoats!
First the Hendry Hudson Highway collapses, then a NJ Transit bridge catches fire, now this! What next, a dirigible crashing into the 6th Avenue El?
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The wild West Side of Manhattan became Dodge City for a pair of horses turned loose in traffic Friday when a hit-and-run truck driver flipped a 120-year-old stagecoach onto its side, sending the runaway equines on an unscheduled jaunt across town. The unlikely cross-century collision occurred around 10 a.m. on West 14th Street as the vintage Wells Fargo stagecoach from Chateau Stables was heading to a promotional appearance in Union Square, said Dave Sansoucie, a spokesman for the stables. A passing truck hit the coach as it was heading east, metal crunching into wood, sending the coach’s driver flying and flipping the vintage vehicle onto its side. Princess and Hero, the horses pulling the coach, were able to escape without injury when the accident occurred, Sansoucie said.
Suddenly liberated from work, the two horses continued heading east on a sunny spring morning. One was grabbed by a transit police officer about four blocks away on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, while the other was taken into custody at 14th and Sixth, police said. The stagecoach driver, who suffered a bruised shoulder, was taken to a nearby hospital and released, Sansoucie said. The coach itself had barely a scratch after the pileup.
Those young whippersnappers, always getting into trouble. There’s really nothing to worry about, what with the economy booming like never before and … what’s that you say?
The stock market did what!?
:: jumps out window ::
That’s nothing. I heard Black Bart’s back in town. And he was down at the saloon - dancing with the sheriff’s gal!
No, fraulein, it iz not a dirigible. It iz mein Zeppelin! Und mit mein fleet of ultra-modern rigid aircraft I vill conquer ze vorld!
Dude. What have you people in New York done to tick off the karma gods? stares
Eve
May 14, 2005, 7:38pm
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Hell, what haven’t we done?
I’m off to Filthy McSchlomo’s Kosher Dance Hall in the Five Points for some laudanum and a shot of absinthe . . .
Last Saturday it was the Kentucky Derby.
Now this.
What’s up with all this horse shit anyway?