Two horses take a ride on a Detroit city bus – and it isn't their first
Jordan Williams, co-founder of Urban City Cowboys, and another man led two horses onto a Detroit Department of Transportation bus near 7 Mile and Strasburg. DDOT says it is investigating.
Bus etiquette usually starts with a ticket. In Detroit, it apparently started with hooves.
On Saturday 7 November 2026, Jordan Williams, co-founder of Urban City Cowboys, and another man led two horses onto a Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) city bus stopped near 7 Mile and Strasburg, then back off through the rear door, UPI Odd News reported (Ben Hooper, 11 November 2026).
Representative photo: a DDOT Proterra ZX5 at Rosa Parks Transit Center, downtown Detroit (June 2022) – not the bus from the 7 Mile incident, and not from the bystander’s video. Photo: 42-BRT / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons).
Williams says he asked the driver first, and that it is not even their first bus – they have previously been on the Jefferson, the Chalmers, the Conners and now the 7 Mile. He also quipped that the buses are a lot smaller than they used to be, “or I may have been a little bigger.”
AI illustration – imagined boarding; not a photograph of the real horses or driver.
AI illustration – imagined commuters; not the actual passengers.
DDOT says it is investigating. Williams hoped the agency would “look at it like a joke like everyone else.” Whether the other passengers agreed is another matter.
Reported by UPI Odd News (Ben Hooper, 11 Nov 2026).
