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Scene from the New York subway: Husky in a bag
Photo: Marco Brivio/Getty Images
You just have to love them, these people who just
don't
immediately react to rules with wild fury.
In their heads, ideas arise that make those who came up with the regulations despair - or maybe even make them smile.
It was something like that in New York City.
There, the subway company officially banned animals from their trains a few years ago.
With one exception: they can ride if they are “locked in a container and transported in a way that does not disturb other passengers”.
And all creative masters and mistresses: challenge accepted!
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Since then, pictures have been flooding the Internet, which have been clicked and shared thousands of times to this day, hashtags and their own accounts about so-called bagdogs bring together a wonderfully amusing cross-section:
It is obvious that the state transport company MTA only had those little barkers in mind when it came to the exception to the rule, as Paris Hilton, probably the most famous mistress, made arm-fit.
There isn't a bag label that hasn't offered a variant for Chihuahuas, Yorkshire Terriers, Pugs or Maltese since then.
The label of choice for New York rule-breakers: Ikea.
The spacious blue plastic bags, which have a capacity of 70 liters and support countless purchases and moves, have now found a completely new use.
Just make four holes for the legs - the bag for the medium-sized dog is ready.
But beware of pickpockets, erm, pocket runners.
The furniture store promises a load capacity of 25 kilograms for its universal bag.
The transport even works without foot holes.
Although: What is the rule for more than one hand luggage on the subway?
The jute bag has developed into a cult object similar to the Ikea bag in recent years.
And isn't the subway one of New York City's catwalks?
In any case, the square, practical, hip bundles are carried in large numbers.
And with the right dog (or the right photo filter) it becomes an eye-catcher.
A container that doesn't disturb other passengers?
A suitcase meets this requirement pretty much exactly.
The same applies to a backpack.
Or what are the openings in it for?
And yet: The New Yorkers don't always get away with their bag creations.
Anyway, this dog didn't fit through the loophole that the MTA's rule left open.
Although his master slung this thing around his shoulders like a bag, the driver remained firm: "It's not a bag!"
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