Posted on 07/14/2009 5:43:14 AM PDT by myknowledge
HORSE-drawn carts have been banned from one of Ireland's most famous national parks in an escalation of a long-running row about their refusal to use "nappies" to deal with the horse dung.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) said today it had "taken action to refuse entry to jaunting car operators'' to the Killarney national park in the south-west unless they have "the required dung catcher device''.
Operated by so-called "jarveys'', some 66 traditional carts, known as jaunting cars, carry tourists along 15 kilometres of internal roads within the picture-postcard park.
"An unfortunate consequence of such a high volume of horses frequenting the park is that the roadways are consistently fouled with horse dung, and has for a long time been a concern from the point of view of environmental, health and safety, aesthetic and tourism grounds,'' the NPWS said.
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That's the craziest idea I've ever heard!
LOL!
oh sh^t!
or should I have said “no sh^t”?
What’s Ireland without a little horsesh^t ?
Imagine if all of us who drive our car to work rode horses instead...Imagine the exhaust from thousands of horses every morning and the fertilizer!!
Amish mufflers.
Even a 7 year old kid knows it’s disgusting!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Nappy butted hoss.
So now Ireland had caught the stupid disease
what a damm fool idea
Why dont they just hire a guy and put him in a Cushman Motor Scooter litle truck and have him scoop it up.
Wife and I recently visited Ireland (wonderful trip). At various places, jaunting cars were available for hire, but my wife wasn’t interested. Maybe next time.
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