This is a link to a story in Pennsylvania about a court ruling that if you are drunk on a horse, you can not be charged with DUI. The law states you have to be operating a vehicle. The courts decided a horse is not a vehicle.
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You have to read what the judge said, sounds like he has a good sense of humor.

~Rob

 

Haha thats pretty funny. I aint never rode a horse drunk, sounds liek a good idea

 

HEHEHE I've got a horse that I've taught to ride bridleless just to help me with getting customers for my Wife and my business of training and breaking. Technically I could say I wasn't in control since I didn't have the-------------------------steering wheel in my hands.

 

I'm sure the horse knew the way home and was completely in control. The rider was irrelevant.

 

My grandfather had an old plow horse named Tony. Occasionally the grandchildren would get to ride Tony but he had only one gait that we had ever seen - a slow amble just right for plowing. I was about 4 or 5 years old and my brother and sister put me on Tony and I took him for a ride. I got about a quarter mile down the road and somehow dropped the reins. That spooked Tony and he took of at a dead trot the fastest anyone had ever seen him move. Tony ran past my brother and sister, down the road, and right into the barn to the feed trough.

That Pennsylvania horse didn't need an operator. It was in control and knew the way home. There's no telling how many times in the past a drunk got on a horse, gave him his head, and the horse took him home.

 

I live in Ohio, not far from the world's largest Amish population. Every year there's a story or two in the news about Amish kids getting drunk and drag racing their horse & buggies. There's usually about one Amish a year that gets killed or at least very seriously injured driving a buggy while intoxicated.

On the flip side - I wonder what the law says about riding a drunk horse?