Posted on 05/20/2017 10:51:20 AM PDT by Gamecock
A 26-year-old West Ashley woman was ticketed Friday after Charleston police said she caused an accident by scaring two carriage horses with a Tyrannosaurus rex costume.
Nicole Wells of Ashley River Road was cited on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and wearing a mask or disguise on a public street, a city code violation, police said.
Wells was released after turning herself in Friday morning, spokesman Charles Francis said. She was not jailed.
The incident was reported shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday near Tommy Condon's restaurant on Church Street. Two Palmetto Carriage Works horses, named Yogi and Boo Boo, were pulling 16 passengers when a woman dressed in an orange Tyrannosaurus rex costume got in front of the carriage and started making growling noises, according to witnesses and the police report. She refused to move after being warned several times that she was upsetting the horses, driver Van Sturgeon said.
The horses jumped and jackknifed the carriage. Yogi fell back on his haunches. The driver was thrown to the pavement, and a wheel ran over his right leg. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was walking with crutches Friday with a bruised leg and broken foot.
Initially it was reported that Yogi was scratched but officials later confirmed he was not hurt. No passenger injuries were reported.
The dinosaur shuffled off to a parking garage on Cumberland Street and got into a car, according to surveillance video. Witnesses told police it was a woman.
At a press conference Friday afternoon, Palmetto Carriage Works President Tom Doyle said staffers have seen people lay down in the street to stop the horses, as well as yell insults at drivers and passengers.
"We've seen the attacks getting more and more brazen, and we fear the result will be the death of one of our family, a guest or an animal," he said. "These attacks follow the increasingly irresponsible rhetoric coming from organizations that have one goal, and that goal is to end carriage tours in Charleston."
The Charleston Animal Society has been calling for reforms to the carriage industry and not a ban, but has reposted videos of fallen horses from groups whose agenda is to ban carriages. The Animal Society decried the dinosaur incident as animal cruelty and offered a $2,500 reward Thursday for an arrest and conviction.
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Man! I so much want to do that to my cat!
Do the cucumber trick on your cat.Watch it hit the roof.
Between the big hat, and the banging of the gong, it was just more than the horses could take...
Cucumber trick?
I’ve done one of the carriage rides in Charleston. Very cool and hope to do it again someday.
The routes differ and even the driver doesn’t know which one you get to take until they basically draw from a hat.
I’d have probably taken down Rex myself if that happened while I was there.
Put a small piece of Scotch tape on the cats front paws and watch the dance....
For some odd reason cats are deathly fraid of cucumbers.They might see it as a snake but they jump straight up or bounce off the walls.YouTube has some good videos of people tormenting their cats with cucumbers.
Yankees, yes?
Sounds like the carriages need to have someone riding shotgun. :=)
“Between the big hat, and the banging of the gong, it was just more than the horses could take...”
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You beat me to it, heh.
Meanwhile, I’m still thinkin’.......
Well of course horses and Tyrannosauruses have been natural enemies for millions of years. What was she thinking?
They need to have someone riding shotgun, literally.
It will work as well today as it did back in the day.
00 buck is about right for PETA scum
YouTube has some good videos of people tormenting their cats with cucumbers.
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Those are funny. I like cat vids in general and the cumcumbers v kittez are great.
Thanks, you just saved me $500!
I put on a ghillie suit last year to impress my dogs. The little dogs were terrified, but I nearly had a problem with my 160 pound Rottweiler...
I have been searching on Amazon, and I cannot find a cucumber costume!
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