There was a crazy ride in Steamboat Springs. Three people took their horses to several bars, Starbucks and Safeway. All three galloped into a Safeway on Sunday. The riders scared shoppers and clerks. That came after they decided to ride into a local bar. The Steamboat Pilot reported that police used a stun gun and arrested Michael Joseph Miller, because he ignored police orders. That happened at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. According to the Steamboat Pilot, the ride began more than 10 hours earlier atop Emerald Mountain. “I had a great ride right up until the very end,” Miller, 44, told the Steamboat Pilot an hour and a half after he was released on a $750 bond from the Routt County Jail. Miller faces charges including suspicion of harassment, disorderly conduct, obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest. Police said Miller was involved in a fight at a pub around 9:30 p.m. Kenneth Recker and Roxanne Lange, of Clark, were the other riders, but they were not arrested. According to the Steamboat Pilot the three had visited several bars before going to Starbucks and Safeway for a snack...more
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Other than, "suspicion of harassment, disorderly conduct, obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest", I don't understand what he did wrong. Surely just riding your horse through a Safeway isn't unlegal in Colorado. If he hadn't been so anti-social about it he would probably have been ok.
Yup, the other two got off with no arrest. Generally, those who ride paint horses are a little different in their personality.
Riders of paint horses are defintely different in their personality but after being married to one going on 50 years I've learned to quit telling her...uh, out
loud that is. If I didn't say what I think under my breath I wouldn't have a lot to say.
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