Posted on 06/02/2007 6:50:05 PM PDT by Kimmers
CULPEPER, Va. (AP) - Two people police say were hoping to avoid drinking and driving chose instead to head home on horseback, and ended up under arrest anyway.
Culpeper police officers Lonnie Myers and Tim Chilton heard a disturbance last Thursday around midnight and found Culpeper residents Eric Kyff and Lauren Allen arguing, Sgt. Scott Jenkins said.
Kyff and Allen, who appeared to be intoxicated, wanted to "travel home several miles by horseback to avoid drinking and driving," Jenkins said.
Kyff, 39, took off along a nearby set of railroad tracks but was stopped shortly after by Chilton, police said.
The two were charged with public intoxication and taken to the county jail. The horses were held across the street in front of the police department.
The two were released from jail the next morning. Their horses were waiting for them across the road.
I bet this is a new one for you!
They had a couple horses in the trunk?
Click here.
Cheers!
It's a witch hunt.
Just outlaw the substance already (woops, we already tried that).
Ping.
New Charge: Horsing around while intoxicated.
I read it as “a” pair of riding horses charged.
Why were the horses charged with public intoxication?
(I’m an editor, so I always find misplaced modifiers a hoot.)
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