Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 7, 1990 TAG: 9007070262
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
"I told him I couldn't get a license number," said dispatcher Chuck Shinall. "The horse wouldn't raise his tail."
When Griffith pulled his patrol car up next to the rescue squad building at Boissevan, he noticed a man sitting on the horse beside an abandoned company store.
"He dropped a beer can before I could get to him," said Griffith, who added that the man also had three beers stored in his saddlebag. "When they're sitting kind of sidesaddled, you've got to figure something's up."
The man - wearing jeans, a flannel shirt and cowboy boots - wasn't about to get arrested sitting down.
"I ain't done nothing wrong," he was quoted as saying as Griffith hauled him from the horse. "I just been riding my horse and drinking a few beers."
Neighbors apparently had a different view. They told dispatchers the man, who was charged with being drunk in public, had been riding drunk all evening and nearly ran into two kids.
Fortunately for the man, he didn't follow the inscription on the baseball hat he was wearing.
"Drive," it said.
by CNB