I'm impressed...

A man in a cowboy hat who rode a horse through a Denver suburb has been cited for riding an animal under the influence.

So. . . Did they give the animal a breathalizer test to confirm this?

Just askin'

Can we please use another term already? Strip mall is unfairly deceptive and misleading.

Good thing, too. I'd have hated to see him wrap that horse around a telephone pole.

$25 fine?
That sounds like pricing from the horse and buggy days.

Was he hot?

In what sense is that "driving"?

Was he driving a herd of cattle through the mall?

Joce678: In what sense is that "driving"?

Was he driving a herd of cattle through the mall?

Kinky.....

I guess you could say he was a major player in the reservation strip mall scene.

Welcome to the Nanny State. ALL common sense must be left outide the country as it is our duty to protect you from yourself.

Cops Suck.
A ticket for Beastiality.

If the horse wasn't drunk, I kind of don't see what the problem is.

A phone number listed for a Brian Drone in Arvada was disconnected.

He gets to screw the queen bee once then dies.

Day_Old_Dutchie: A phone number listed for a Brian Drone in Arvada was disconnected.

He gets to screw the queen bee once then dies.

Nice

walnuts55: Cops Suck.
A ticket for Beastiality.

Sounds like this cop really bent over backwards to help the guy out. Here he would have been arrested for public intox. The simple fact is that anytime someone is drunk and on a public ROW they are endangering not only themselves, but by staggering out into the road or making impaired crossing decisions they can cause accidents because people will most likely have to swerve unexpectedly to avoid them.

Someone on a horse? Even worse. Sobering up before you venture out into public is not rocket science. The drunks are the ones who suck, not the cops.

OK, I have to correct myself. A lot of cops do suck...maybe most, but not this one in this particular case. LOL

He should've been commended, IMO, for not driving a car. The horse was sober, right?

I heard it was a Mustang.

Maybe they should conduct a Gallup poll to determine the horse's perceived guilt/innocence.

char_boy & Wireline
+1 each

Whoa there little dogey. Whoa there, boy, I say, whoa!

The guy shouldn't have been horsing around.

Meh-this is almost an everyday happening here in Wyoming. The Wonder Bar downtown even has pictures of cowboys riding horse into the bar and ordering drinks.

I live five minutes from the strip mall in question, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies....

/for the record, the mall is at the intersection of two busy streets
//glad the horse didn't get hit by a car

Hah, in Texas the man on the horse has the right of way and it's the cars who have to get out of their way.

Still not sure from the story if the man's behavior ON the horse was visibly wreckless and therefore led the policeman to detain him, or if it was merely the fact that he was on a horse.

Just what was the guy doing to garner the policeman's attention to begin with, jumping cars?

I always though the theory was the horse was driving. But then again, a $25 dollar ticket isn't exactly "DUI: You can't afford it."(tm)

Evil Twin Skippy: I always though the theory was the horse was driving. But then again, a $25 dollar ticket isn't exactly "DUI: You can't afford it."(tm)

It is quite possible the citation was for having a farm animal within an area where they are not allowed. Not enough details.

Terrydatroll: walnuts55: Cops Suck.
A ticket for Beastiality.

Sounds like this cop really bent over backwards to help the guy out. Here he would have been arrested for public intox. The simple fact is that anytime someone is drunk and on a public ROW they are endangering not only themselves, but by staggering out into the road or making impaired crossing decisions they can cause accidents because people will most likely have to swerve unexpectedly to avoid them.

Someone on a horse? Even worse. Sobering up before you venture out into public is not rocket science. The drunks are the ones who suck, not the cops.

You sound like a 12 stepper...

The Strawboss told him to "Round em mall up!"

Whew, it wasn't my buddy in Kentucky.
/Rides to and from liquor store a couple times a week.
//Never sober

Arresting officer:



/pictured on special assignment

Terrydatroll: Someone on a horse? Even worse.

Why is that worse? The horse isn't drunk. It's not like the horse is going to do all the stupid drunken things that he would do. In fact, being on the horse will probably prevent most, if not all, of those stupid things.

That's kind of like saying it's a bad idea to get a DD who doesn't know where you live, so you have to give him directions. You're telling him where to go, but if you say, "Hey, turn left INTO THIS BRICK WALL AT FULL SPEED," he's just going to say, "Man, screw you, buddy." The horse would respond in a similar manner.

Wanted for questioning.

/Obscure?

Just another example of giving cops a inch they take a mile drunk driving laws were for a mother farking car.
Not a bike not your wife.

We have been writing laws 24 hrs a day 7 days a week for over 200 years.
We have enough stop we need no more send them all home at this rate in 200 more years anything other than sitting at attention will be outlawed.

Now you know how we became a police state.

Drinking and riding has a good ring to it.

If I only had a nickel for every time my horse got me home safe.

He's been my partner and my Designated Driver for over 15 years now.

You know... the worst thing is reading that headline and going to the article and seeing that it's in Colorado... because the first thing to go through my head was "Dad?"

I mean, it wasn't. But a couple of years back I came to fark for a good laugh at human stupidity to see my home town in CO being demolished by a homemade tank, driven by a man my father knew.

/facepalm
//still funny though

LOL I submited this with a shorter headline.

Save a horse, Ride a cowboy! Not my headline BTW, just good 'ol horse sense.
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