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.
“Cucumber: Cats worst enemy, woman’s best friend?”
You know what they say, once you go Cucurbitaceae, you never go back.
I used to rescue Rots for the SPCA....what a wonderful animal.....Saved over 12 of them.....
Into GSDs now.....they are smarter but not more loyal than Rots
“The dinosaur shuffled off to a parking garage on Cumberland Street and got into a car, according to surveillance video.”
That’s a perfectly normal thing for a dinosaur to do.
GSD?
German Shepherd Dog
Poor things do not seem to have a long lifespan judging from my neighbors Rotties.
according to this staged Japanese prank
If that was pulled in the States, I suspect that when T-Rex rounded a corner, there would be a guy with a drawn handgun waiting for it.
8-12 years.....
Sad but a fact of life.....
Good News, puppies are born every day....
That’s mean.
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“For some odd reason cats are deathly fraid of cucumbers.”
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Even big cats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL66J_Tnt6c
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Go Pros look like so much fun. I loved Charleston. But the people were about 2 points too friendly for me on the Friendly People Meter. Only place in the country where I actually worried if I had been rude to the clerk somehow.
Nashville was PERFECT for my friendly nature. I fit in exactly. Here in LA I am wayyyy over the top of the friendly meter. I do not fit in here. North Orange County, a little better fit.
The first couple of days trying it went well.
The video really impressed me.
GSD’s are smart, but certainly no more loyal. And big and strong goes to the Rotties, :)
There’s a special place in my heart for Rots......
They are incredibly loyal and loving dogs.....
After training and rehabilitating numerous Rots....even some that were functionally feral, these dogs have won me over....
BTW, the GSDs have them beat in speed and agility.... :^)
Yes, but to make up for the big and slow of my big Rottie, I have a purebred female Staffordshire Terrier. A 45 pound stick of dynamite.She is as loving and as loyal as they come, also. But I recommend folks that have other dogs to stick with females in this breed. They are very good dogs, but can be jealous..
They also have a very strong bred “prey” instinct.....
Although they can be fantastic with small children....if the inbred prey instinct is very strong, it can kick in ...turning a wonderful family dog into a tragedy.....
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