Rancher on horseback lassoes would-be bike bandit in Walmart parking lot

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/10/bike-theft-oregon-walmart-thief-lassoed-cattle-rancher?CMP=edit_2221#img-1 ^

[Carriage Hill]

Trees are big enough to hang the lowlife, but there are a few 100ft parking lot lightposts that’d work just fine. Good day for a hanging.

[Carriage Hill]

I was thinking, “Hang ‘Em High”.

[Salamander]

Or send the horse at dead run for a quarter mile.

Stealing is such a drag.

[Salamander]

Make the thief a steer, claim it was “force of habit”.

[Salamander]

Good thing the horse didn’t get spooked.

:P

[Duchess47]

Unfortunately ranch horses don’t spook.

[Salamander]

I know.

It was joke reply.

[Duchess47]

LOL I know, that’s why the “unfortunately”. Sorry, it’s late and my humor is dry. At this time of night, very dry.

[factoryrat]

If this happened in Pendelton, they would keep mr. sanchez in the jail until the Roundup hit town, and then entered him into the calf roping contest.....

[DeSoto]

I don’t know if they would keep him jail. Pendleton is in Umatilla County, they don’t tolerate much there. They would likely leave him tethered to a hitching post until then, and then pray for a hot summer.

[Pride in the USA]

That is a great story!