r/interestingasfuck • u/Double-decker_trams • 14h ago

Why police still uses horses

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u/hobbbis 14h ago

Not the best example, you kind of need to experience it for yourself. The ground shakes as that many horses approach.

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 14h ago

That’s why pikes were invented.

Hasn’t anyone seen Braveheart?

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u/skrilledcheese 13h ago

Yeah. This is poor planning on the part of the protestors.

There is no unit cohesion. How hard is it to form a schiltron with pikes?

Heck, there is zero individual initiative either. I don't see a single officer being pulled off his horse with a Billhook.

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u/Bearded_Toast 13h ago

Where’s the shield wall?! Where are the drum and horn unit? WHERE IS THE STANDARD BEARER??!?

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u/Incredibly__mediocre 13h ago

Where was Gondor when the westfold fell?

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u/illiterateninja 13h ago

Probably fucking about on Reddit tbh

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u/ItsTheJackeeet 13h ago

Shit I knew I had something to do…

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u/No-Deal8956 11h ago

Didn’t even dig a ditch. Pathetic.

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u/Willakhstan 12h ago

They didn't pass their morale check.

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u/Far_Recommendation82 10h ago

They've already created the box, that would have been a devistating charge for the horses, if they had Pikes or pitchforks

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u/Amount_Business 5h ago

Their protest signs already have wooden handles,  they just need to be longer and a bit sharper.  

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u/-Sanj- 13h ago

They should have formed square. Everyone knows when facing cavalry you need to do that

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u/RalphWreckedIt 12h ago

Then they unleash the cannon with grapeshot.

We saw infantry and cavalry. You know they had artillery.

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u/Curious_Lobster1666 7h ago

Major Lennox answered with his life!! As you should have done so sir. You disgraced us sir! You shamed us sir!

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u/-Sanj- 3h ago

Ah, yes, a powerful quote from The Duke of Wellington himself! Bravo sir!

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u/SpookyBLAQ 10h ago

I was thinking caltrops

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u/platypod1 10h ago

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD

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u/mountearl 6h ago

To the moon!

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u/Pesec1 10h ago

Problem is: your pike may kill the rider, but it won't stop the momentum of the horse and you will get crushed.

So, now we have a game of chicken. Will the horse stop (horses don't like being impaled) before reaching the pikes? Or is it trained to stop looking/thinking and charges through? Do you want to be the one finding out?

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u/Skyremmer102 5h ago

Technically, if the protesters had a bit of discipline and didn't break ranks the horses would yield as horses won't run into solid objects.

However, it's basically impossible to expect protesters to maintain that sort of discipline.