Horse Buggy facts
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Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over for riding his horse and buggy too quickly. Realizing it was the president the officer apologized and offered to ignore the infraction, but Grant replied "I was speeding, you caught me and I'll pay the ticket." He was fined $5, which would have been $91 today.
how fast does a horse and buggy go?
Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over and ticketed for speeding on his horse and buggy several times in D.C. while president, even once being escorted to the police station.
What ended the era of the horse and buggy?
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what invention ended the era of the horse and buggy?
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D.C. police once arrested the 18th POTUS Ulysses S. Grant for speeding. They seized his horse & buggy and he ended up paying a fine and walk back to the White House
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Considered by many to be the worst car ever imagined, the Horsey Horseless was a gas buggy with a fake horse head in front. Patented (but never manufactured) in 1899, the design was intended to calm the fears of a real horse by arranging the fake head in a "life-like attitude."
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Calamity Jane rented a horse and buggy in Cheyenne for a roughly one mile joy ride to Fort Russell and back, but Calamity was so drunk that she passed right by her destination without noticing it and finally ended up about 90 miles away at Fort Laramie
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Back in the heyday of horse drawn buggies it was estimated that they were the cause of 20.000 deaths annually in New York City.
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President Grant was arrested by a police officer for riding his horse and buggy (alone) too fast in the city
