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Panicking ponies in busy Paris traffic
Now here’s a sight you don’t see every day in Paris - thank goodness.
And one motorists on the boulevard périphérique, the busy ring road around the French capital, probably had a hard time believing: riderless ponies galloping through the traffic.
It happened on Saturday afternoon as some children were out riding ponies belonging to the Cartoucherie equestrian centre located next to the Bois de Vincennes in the east of Paris.
They - the ponies that is - were suddenly startled and hurtled off to join the traffic as this amateur video, featured on the website of the national daily edition of Le Parisien - Aujourd’hui en France, shows.
"Some cars arrived that were driving too fast and sounded their horns," Raphaël Mollion, the director of the centre said.
"One of the ponies took fright and started the stampede with the others following."
In total eight ponies threw their riders and headed off into the distance towards the busy boulevard périphérique, some making it as far as to a stretch of one of the motorways leading into Paris - the A4.
While several of the panicking ponies were rounded up quite quickly, others eluded police and firefighters for nearly two hours before they too ended their dalliance with delights of Paris traffic - and French drivers - and were caught.
"It could all have ended very differently," admitted Mollion.
"None of the children who fell off the ponies was hurt, and neither were any of the ponies."
And one motorists on the boulevard périphérique, the busy ring road around the French capital, probably had a hard time believing: riderless ponies galloping through the traffic.
It happened on Saturday afternoon as some children were out riding ponies belonging to the Cartoucherie equestrian centre located next to the Bois de Vincennes in the east of Paris.
They - the ponies that is - were suddenly startled and hurtled off to join the traffic as this amateur video, featured on the website of the national daily edition of Le Parisien - Aujourd’hui en France, shows.
"Some cars arrived that were driving too fast and sounded their horns," Raphaël Mollion, the director of the centre said.
"One of the ponies took fright and started the stampede with the others following."
In total eight ponies threw their riders and headed off into the distance towards the busy boulevard périphérique, some making it as far as to a stretch of one of the motorways leading into Paris - the A4.
While several of the panicking ponies were rounded up quite quickly, others eluded police and firefighters for nearly two hours before they too ended their dalliance with delights of Paris traffic - and French drivers - and were caught.
"It could all have ended very differently," admitted Mollion.
"None of the children who fell off the ponies was hurt, and neither were any of the ponies."
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