Strawberry Mansion Stable Shuttered

Here is one of your few chances to see horses in the middle of a city street, at least besides ones pulling tourists being told Ben Franklin sired 80 illegitimate Swedish children. The city today busted up an illegal horse stable in Strawberry Mansion.

Apparently the stables were unsanitary and hazardous, and so 46 horses were removed. The city will actually raze the stables on Friday. Philly SPCA head Lisa Rodgers told clued us in on why there were actually horses in Strawberry Mansion.

(Kuznits:) “What are people doing with the horses in the city?”

(Rodgers:) “Well, they’ve got this urban cowboy type situation. They’re in such close proximity to the park that they take the horses out and they ride through the park. They claim that the children in the neighborhood take care of the horses and it’s a way to keep them out of trouble. And some of that may well be true, but unfortunately, our concern is that the horses are in unsanitary conditions.”

Perhaps the urban cowboys can rustle up a posse and take down the varmints in this city.

City Shuts Down Illegal Horse Stables in Strawberry Mansion [KYW 1060]