Concrete Cowboys

[PolishHeadlock]

http://www.phillyvoice.com/watch-concrete-cowboys-philadelphia/

t's not often you see someone giddy-up for a leisurely stroll through the streets of Philadelphia. But, lo and behold, they do.

Great Big Story, a Vice-like video project launched by CNN, captured the below video of one "concrete cowboy," Shahir Drayton, riding down a South Philadelphia street -- perhaps giving a whole new meaning to the #OpenStreetsPHL movement. Drayton, an 18-year-old horseback rider, took up the hobby after meeting Malik Divers, who operates a stable in Southwest Philadelphia. According to the Wall Street Journal, Divers asks local teenagers to care for the horses and offer pony rides for $5 to neighbors in a nearby park. In return, he lets them ride.

The thought: Caring for the horses keeps neighborhood teens out of trouble and builds community.

"When I ride, people actually give me props and actually applaud me -- the hood guys and everything," Drayton remarks in the video. "They ask me ‘Can I ride?’”

The video has amassed more than 1,000,000 views on Facebook since being released last week.

The first time I realized there was random stables in Philly was in HS when I got on the wrong bus and ended up in North Philly. I remember seeing dudes on horses and thinking "WTF am I high right now?"

After that I remember newspaper articles where the city tore down some illegal stables because they said the horses were malnourished. Still every once and a while I see horses trotting around rougher sections of the city so I thought this video was pretty neat.

Do any other major cities have something like this going on?

 

[thebluerider]

that is not the Gap Band

 

[PolishHeadlock]

that is not the Gap Band

Yes it is

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I thought you mispelt 'whores' for a second there..

But you're really talking about Horses.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

I thought you mispelt 'whores' for a second there..

But you're really talking about Horses.

You can see both in the same neighborhoods

 

[tehend]

Huh...

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I mean, everyone should ride a whores at some point.

 

[thebluerider]

Yes it is

touche

 

[The Clamburglar]

I thought this thread was going to be about the wannabe cowboys you find here in Calgary. They are everywhere. lol

 

[TheRatman]

Thought this thread was gonna be about the real concrete cowboys.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/15/europe/russian-prison-official-steals-highway/

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Thought this was going to be about:

 

[Grunk]

wasnt this video showing these cowboys?

 

[PolishHeadlock]

 

[Skip Reming]

those poor fucking horses

 

[Organic Damage]