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Today’s Photos : Ostrich-drawn Carriage Stopped By Motorcycle Police For Over-speeding In 1930
Today’s Photos : Ostrich-drawn carriage stopped by motorcycle policeman for over-speeding in Los Angeles in 1930.
Little research by Autojosh shows that hitching not horses, but ostriches – that large flightless birds – to wagons was completely normal back then.
Pictures shared shows a man with an ostrich-drawn cart – yes, you read that right – receiving a traffic ticket for over-speeding from a motorcycle policeman in Los Angeles, United States, in the 1930s.
We all know about horse-drawn carriages before the advent of motor vehicles in the late 1800s, but these pictures of an ostrich-drawn carriage will likely be the weirdest you will ever see today.
A little research by Autojosh shows that hitching not horses, but ostriches – that large flightless birds – to wagons was completely normal back then as so many pictures of carriages being pulled by ostriches are on the internet.
