'DRIVING' UNDER THE INFLUENCE.
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (53698)
November 6, 2017 10:04am CST
Did you see that news report a couple of days ago about the Florida woman who was arrested for D.U.I.? - unusual thing about that arrest is that she was riding a horse at the time.
According to the NBC report someone noticed the woman riding in a haphazard fashion down a busy highway, and alerted the police. She staggered after alighting from the horse and was found to have twice the legal limit of alcohol - allowed by that state - in her system.
Whenever I hear about someone charged with Driving Under the Influence, I immediately think that person was driving a car, truck or other vehicular transport. Have you heard of this happening before? - someone charged with D.U.I. riding a horse? Do you think the charge should be called something else?
According to the NBC report someone noticed the woman riding in a haphazard fashion down a busy highway, and alerted the police. She staggered after alighting from the horse and was found to have twice the legal limit of alcohol - allowed by that state - in her system.
Whenever I hear about someone charged with Driving Under the Influence, I immediately think that person was driving a car, truck or other vehicular transport. Have you heard of this happening before? - someone charged with D.U.I. riding a horse? Do you think the charge should be called something else?31 people like this
30 responses
@just4him (307773)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Nov 17
Someone told me once, a while back, that the person riding the horse could be drunk, but not the horse itself, who walks not drives, under his/her own steam, isn't drunk, so there isn't a D.U.I. involved. So, no, I've never heard of it. Maybe she shouldn't have been handling the reins, which probably caused the horse to look like it was a danger to itself and others.
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@allknowing (130233)
• India
6 Nov 17
That was happening on a busy highway - endangering both the horse and the rider.
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
7 Nov 17
@Kandae11
My step-mom once hit a cow on a country road and the damage to her rig was pretty bad. It'd be 100 times worse hitting an animal that size on a busy highway.
If anything, seems like the horse rider would be arrested for reckless endangerment.
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@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
6 Nov 17
This is not the first time I have heard about this.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
12 Nov 17
It should be called RUI. What do you think?
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
8 Nov 17
You don't drive a horse, you ride a horse so I don't think DUI is appropriate, I bet it gets thrown out of court.
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@JamesHxstatic (29343)
• Eugene, Oregon
6 Nov 17
That does seem to be a strange charge for what she did. A good saddle horse pretty much drives themselves with a little direction, I thought.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
6 Nov 17
What gets me @Kandae11 is that she could have gotten the horse killed by her stupidity.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
i think even riding on a horse when one is drunk, is a violation of traffic rules. it is still DUI even if the vehicle is a horse.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Nov 17
well that's a new one on me, can you be arrested in the US for riding a horse drunk??
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@Kandae11 (53698)
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7 Nov 17
Obviously it is not an offence that is frequently committed - otherwise we would have heard much more about it. Even the Sheriff noted that he wasn't aware of it happening before in his county. And of course - there are legal arguments for and against.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
7 Nov 17
First time heard about a drunken rider on a horse
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