Re: [Phys-l] Nurture vs Nature (Was:Student engagement)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I've  read several times of 18/19 cent. cases of horse riders arrested  
for being inebriated.  So there's a history of its being illegal and  
punishable.

bc  too lazy to google for a reference, and doesn't think it's a case  
of being a Sr. moment.

p.s. also the horse ends up home, i.e. auto pilot, yes.   When I was  
riding my horse, she would speed up when we neared home (food and no  
unpleasant load**).

** When we would play capture the flag (stuck on the rear of the  
saddle) the horses would "get into it" and race w/o any urging!


On 2009, Dec 08, , at 14:41, John Clement wrote:

> Drunk carriage driving is hardly a modern ill.  But don't horses  
> often go on
> autopilot and find their way home?  Maybe he was drunk, but then  
> maybe he
> was just tired.  I wonder what the legal system did with this one.   
> Maybe it
> was thrown out of court after the judge fell off his seat laughing!   
> Is
> being asleep in a slow moving carriage that dangerous, especially  
> compared
> to drunk driving?  Hmm, it certainly is a funny one, and I did see  
> the humor
> this time.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
> > *LANCASTER, Pa. - Police in central Pennsylvania say they arrested an
> > Amish man on drunk driving charges over the weekend after he was  
> > found
> > asleep in his moving buggy.*
> >
> > John Clement wrote:
> > >  About the only people you can not
> > > blame for modern society's ills are the Amish.
>
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