"drunk riding"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/1/2009 07:26 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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.)

In case anyone is concerned that I may have lost an eye recently,
it's only that I have a heavy finger on the Shift key.

Joel

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