Earlier this year newspapers were full of reports on the use of horse-meat in burgers and other consumer products in the UK. It was therefore quite reassuring to learn this weekend that McDonald’s restaurants categorically refuse to serve horses. Actually, I distorted that slightly since McDonald’s merely announced that they refuse to serve people on horseback. This followed an incident in Greater Manchester on Saturday when a woman rode her horse to her local McDonald’s drive-thru to order a meal – presumably for herself rather than the horse!
The server refused her order and so the resourceful horsewoman dismounted and led the horse into the restaurant itself where she attempted to place her order at the counter. Yet again, she was refused service and whilst she argued with the server, the horse, perhaps unsurprisingly, raised the stakes (no pun intended!) by leaving a large deposit on the restaurant floor. The police were called and the woman was issued with a fixed penalty notice.
There was no report on what happened to the poor, and no doubt, traumatized horse but, bearing in mind the burger scandal, any charge of defecating on a restaurant floor would surely be dealt with sympathetically by the courts!
Common Sense 