If you’re too drunk to drive, maybe taking charge of a large, four-legged creature isn’t a good idea, either.
Cops in Billings, Mont., encountered Dawnalee Ellis-Peterson, 43, twice one night — the first time “extremely intoxicated” on horseback.
Apparently, galloping while drunk isn’t a crime, but driving is, and she was soon busted behind the wheel of her car.
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Haven’t these school officials heard of turning the other cheek?
A Pennsylvania high-school student was barred from his graduation ceremony after he mooned two girls on a class trip.
Larry Liero, 18, faces criminal charges in Monroe County for dropping his drawers.
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Bus-ted!
A Florida school-bus driver decided to teach two of her charges an outrageous lesson in conflict resolution.
Patrice Sanders drove two brawling teen girls, and every other child on her bus, to her own house and had the combatants duke it out on her front lawn.
Afterward, she allegedly told the kids, “What happens on the bus, stays on the bus.” But it didn’t, and she was busted.
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Put this one in the bad-neighbor file.
Barry Alan Swegle, 51, of Port Angeles, Wash., was arrested for getting behind the wheel of a logging machine and ramming it into four homes, a pickup truck and a power pole, police said.
Swegle had allegedly been feuding with a neighbor over a property line.
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If you enjoy a hearty, frosty brew, head to the corner bar — in Wyoming.
The state has the lowest beer taxes in the nation at just two cents a glass.
Tennessee has the highest, at $1.17, while New York charges a relatively reasonable 14 cents, according to info posted online at taxprof.typepad.com.