Horses hauled coal underground in France for almost 150 years.
The first one went down a shaft in the Loire region in 1821, and the big coalfields of the north followed in the 1840s. Their job was to pull strings of loaded coal wagons along the rails from the coal face to the bottom of the shaft.

Getting them down was the hardest part. Until 1930s there w
no cages big enough, so a horse was blindfolded, had its legs bound, and was lowered down the shaft in a harness or net on the end of a steel cable.

Most never came back up while they could still work. A pit horse commonly spent 10 to 20 years below ground, living in stables cut into the rock. The mines used heavy draft breeds from northern France and the Ardennes, like the one in this photo.

Miners often grew closer to the animals they worked beside everyday
By 1926 there were about 10,000 horses in French mines.
Conveyor belts and small locomotives replaced them over the following decades, and by 1960 only about 130 were left.

Émile Zola put two pit horses, Bataille and Trompette, at the heart of his 1885 mining novel "Germinal."

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Never cut the claws of an outdoor cat.

Not sure what kind it is but thought this was pretty cool that he dug his own little nook

In October 2017, a businessman named Birju Salla planted a printed note in the toilet of a Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight. The note claimed that there were hijackers and explosives on board and demanded that the plane be flown to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The plane made an emergency landing in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Salla had fabricated the threat in a bizarre attempt to ruin the airline's reputation so his girlfriend, who worked for Jet Airways, would lose her job and move back to Mumbai to be with him.

Because India had dramatically strengthened its laws post Kandahar Hijacking, Salla became the first person tried under the amended Anti-Hijacking Act of 2016, which carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for such acts.

However, in August 2023, the Gujarat High Court completely overturned his conviction and acquitted him, ruling that the prosecution's evidence linking him specifically to the note was tainted with doubt. He was subsequently released from Sabarmati Central Jail having spent 6 years in prison.