Drunken cowboy ticketed after leaving daiquiri bar in horse

Deputies ticketed a man for riding a horse drunk down a highway Tuesday.

Jake Williams said he was too drunk to drive home from a daiquiri shop where he stopped earlier in the day. He had been driving a truck and horse trailer but decided it was safer to ride his horse, Sugar, home.

“I was riding my horse down the side of 16,” Williams explained as he was being issued a ticket for being drunk in public on the side of Highway 16.

A cruiser called in to stop the cowboy, who promptly explained his drunken decision.

“Aye, when you get a little too much to drink, why not ride a horse. It’s safer that way. The horse knows the way home.”

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