Newcastle Upon Tyne magistrates court was told Addission was drunkenly riding home in his horse and carriage. When police arrived, Addison, who was on a suspended sentence at the time, continued to ride the animal along West Road. When appended, Addison still refused to cooperate and the officer had to use PAVA spray on him in order to detain him.
Well, it must have come as a welcome change from idiots in Audis, I suppose
District Judge Kate Meek said: 'Quite frankly, it's the first time I have come across a charge of a person being drunk in charge of a horse on a highway.
'You can see why it's an offence because horses are big and powerful things. If you're drunk, you're not capable of controlling that horse and, if it does go out of control, it's a danger to everyone around.'
I wonder what his excuse will be?
Jonathan Cousins, defending, said: 'Mr Addison was riding his horse home. Police wanted to speak to him. He rode off. He gets back on the horse.
'She follows him in her vehicle. He pulls up and, when the officer pulls in behind him, he's on his mobile phone to his family trying to seek assistance with the horse or for someone to come and take it.
'He has stayed out of trouble since this.
'It was clear he was intoxicated by his manner. The officer sought to stop him doing that. He was not cooperative. The officer followed in her vehicle and the defendant was eventually apprehended.'
Pathetic. Call that a defence?
Addison, of no fixed abode, has now been fined a total of £250 after he pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of a horse and obstructing a police officer.
*sighs*
8 comments:
"When appended, Addison still refused to cooperate"
Was he appended to the list of local pissheads? The Daily Wail staff's over reliance on typing aids shows as usual . . .
In an era of Muslims murdering people left right and centre there's something rather endearing about this story. To be fair I'd rather he was toddling home drunk from the pub in a horse and cart than at the wheel of a transit van. And the horse probably has more brain cells than he does, so isn't going to cause too much trouble. I suspect historically there's plenty of people who have been poured into a pony & trap after a night on the beer and the horse has taken them home on auto pilot.
If he had been in the carriage, and not holding reins, would be have been ignored?
If you are three sheets, or even five, to the wind and alone in a self driving vehicle can you be prosecuted?
Quite a few Mercedes could be funded by the legal intricacies of these possibilities.
Kind regards Sobers. It's only about 20 years ago that my father was brought home from the pub three miles away by his horse in the black dark and pouring rain. Thankfully the other pubgoers had taken a large umbrella from the beer garden and fastened it to the trap. They had also lent him a small torch that you could just about see the filament glowing. He wasn't a traveller, but had farmed with horses all his life and trusted them completely.
Heh!
The horse almost certainly has more brain cells!
It's one they really should sort out before we import Teslas!
Lovely story!
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