"drunk riding"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/1/2009 06:10 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>(BTW, I believe that in many places now you can get one
>of these for being drunk on a horse, too.

Wasn't that law passed in Massachusetts as early as the 1600s?  *-)
(Or perhaps there were two separate laws:  being drunk in public, and
riding a horse too fast in town.)

Joel

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