Funny Story - Gender Bender

Speeding tickets for driving a horse too fast were once par for the course. In New England, for example, horses were constrained by law to keep a slow pace when crossing one of the many covered bridges over the Connecticut River.

One story that went around was about a woman bringing a load of garden produce to market. Pressed for time, she raced across a bridge and found herself charged with fast driving.

In court, her lawyer argued that there was no case against his client, when the judge confronted him: "The law distinctly reads, ‘ No man shall drive across the bridge faster than a walk.’"
"I still claim there is no case against my client," the lawyer responded. "She is a woman and she was driving a mare.""