People on the street: Should donkey rides be banned?

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Recently, petitions calling for donkey rides at the beach to be banned have been gaining traction, so we hit the streets of Manchester to ask people if they have fond memories of donkey rides, or whether they think a ban is the right move.

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00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World, today I'm out on the streets of Manchester

00:03talking to people about donkey rides at the beach and we know that can sound a

00:07little bit strange but a petition's been signed by many many people wanting to

00:11ban it and that's because we can't be sure of the conditions that the donkeys

00:13are kept in. So we want to know whether people have fond or negative memories of

00:17riding donkeys at beaches and whether they'd support a ban. As a kid yeah but

00:22like we'd never like it is when you see it now it is really sad to see and you

00:27wish you hadn't done it as a kid. Yeah obviously if you know the donkey is not

00:30our pair then it's not. We've not seen donkeys at beaches, I think I've seen them in Blackpool

00:35maybe in Whitby. I like to think that we live in an age where the donkeys are

00:40like treated well. If it's like a family thing and you've like brought it up and it

00:44trusts you and stuff then like I you know I understand like riding it and it

00:48being like kind of like your pet but like they work a long long hours in like

00:52really boiling hot weather and like I do feel sorry for them because they don't

00:56look happy most of the time they do look a little bit sad.

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