Ohio deputy encounters ‘drunk Amish
guy’ slumped over in moving buggy
Fox News,
by
Adam Sabes
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/21/2022 7:33:19 PM
An Amish man in Ohio was the subject of a low-speed police chase on May 14 when he was asleep while operating a horse and buggy.
Ashtabula Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Talbert attempted to stop the buggy at around 2:43 a.m. in Orwell, Ohio, but was unsuccessful and told other officers that the driver of the horse and buggy looked like he was asleep, according to Fox 8.
“There is a Bud Light can sitting in there and he’s passed clean out,” Talbert says. “We got a drunk Amish guy passed out in a buggy.”
“He just turned eastbound on Bogue
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Debrawr 5/21/2022 7:39:44 PM (No. 1162256)
Horses...the original self-driving vehicles.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/21/2022 7:45:12 PM (No. 1162261)
The horses know the way home...
I cannot remember any more which country it was but, back in the early 80's a Caribbean island decided to change from the Brit style "Right side of the road" to the American style. People handled it fairly well, but drunk drivers in horse/donkey carts that nodded off? Their motive power moved over to the side they were used to....WHAM.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nexus-1 5/21/2022 7:51:41 PM (No. 1162264)
Meet Moses Kennedy, Teddy's lovechild
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/21/2022 8:09:02 PM (No. 1162270)
The person operating the horse and buggy was identified as Nathan Miller, who took a breathalyzer test and registered a .063%, according to police.
That's .01 less than 8x the legal limit, I'm surprised he's not dead!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Midwest Mom 5/21/2022 8:13:47 PM (No. 1162272)
Maybe he was on his rumspringa?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
downnout 5/21/2022 8:25:19 PM (No. 1162277)
You can always depend on your horse to get you home.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mushroom 5/21/2022 8:33:14 PM (No. 1162286)
Well if country music has taught me anything is that BEER is for horses! And there lies the ultimate defense.
"Well your honor first of all the horse was driving and it was his beer can!"
...Case dismissed... I mean come on people...it was Bud Light!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vesicant 5/21/2022 9:39:16 PM (No. 1162314)
The Ohio BAC limit is 0.08%. 0.063% is well under that. He must have been under 21, for which the limit is 0.02%.
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Chuckle!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nelsonted1 5/21/2022 10:15:07 PM (No. 1162340)
The woman who built our house was a wild woman. She started it in 1905 finishing it the next year. Bought several farms and built homes on them then built a couple local stores.
She used to really drink. She used to buggy-up a horse and go to Webster (minnesota) to have her jug filled. Shed get herself to the barber skipping up the steps to get him to fill her jug. Women weren't allowed in bars or liquor stores back then. So, we were little kids sneaking down to the 90 some year old barber, the son of the 1906 barber after piano training and listen to stories about our father, his friends, the neighborhood ministers, bank robberies and other fun stuff. I don't remember any single part of piano trading but remember ever word uttered by that wonderful, cranky old man.
Anyway, Mrs Mahar , what a perfect name! would get her whiskey, be blasted long before half way home with her head lolling back as far as it would go then forward onto her chest. By the third mile shed be passed out. The fourth would be worse than that. Eventually the kids would find her asleep at the barn door that was too narrow for the buggy to enter so the horses would be standing in the barn, buggy in the doorway and mom sleeping in the e shade of the old elm tree. Upright on the seat.
The kids would wakes her, shed head for the house and make supper for the crew. Our baby sitter, who was very upright by the time we showed up -she was in her 70s, then -told meshe and my aunt Nellie and a bunch of church ladies went to see Mrs mahar when they all understood she was maybe dying of dyptheria, malaria or cholera or whatever that killed people dead in those days and brought food asking if they should tag-team living there to help with the kids. She said she had all the help she needed rolling over, reaching under the bed pulling out the jug. You see? Ill be fine😉
This house is so danged big no one has ever gotten around to cementing the basement floor. Why bother? Anyway, the furnace man was here one day and I was downstairs telling him this story which made him start and stop repeatedly and said if we ever do cement the floor wed get one of those ground penetrating radar type.deals like you see on tv and run it back and forth a few times just in case. I told him it may sound odd but we do know there are two dead people buried on the end of our.porch so I didn't think it wasn't so extreme.
But Mrs mahar's brother was a famous horse.jockey- not the racetrack type jockey but the horse buyer and seller kind- so she knew how to procure a good horse that would always find home without a stupid human messing things up.
Ted
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Petronius 5/21/2022 10:29:19 PM (No. 1162346)
This happened where I live. Amish teens party just as hard as the "English".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Echohawk 5/22/2022 7:55:37 AM (No. 1162553)
A horse always knows the way back to the barn. The Amishman simply gave the horse the reins.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/22/2022 10:16:25 AM (No. 1162697)
Well, the lad wasn't driving. He was sleeping, (and you can't do both at the same time). Therefore he was just riding. The horse was driving. And, the horse was stone old sober and had full control of the vehicle, (just taking it easy to not disturb the passenger). Sleeping While Intoxicated isn't illegal, right?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/22/2022 10:35:39 AM (No. 1162718)
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was in central, lower Michigan in Amish country. Two guys in a buckboard , towing an old aluminum fishin' boat. The passenger tossed an empty beer can over his shoulder and into the boat without even looking back....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/22/2022 11:53:36 AM (No. 1162824)
Way safer than a car.
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