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01-24-2014, 05:44 AM
Police: Guy on a horse gets lost with someone’s kid, drunkenly rides around trying to return him
January 22, 2014 3:08 PM By Nastacia Leshchinskaya
Let’s think back to a simpler time. A man on a horse gallops around with a lost child, seeking nothing but the satisfaction of returning the little tyke to his worried parents. Then (like in this episode of Guy on a Buffalo) he places the precious babe into the arms of his worried mother, who thanks our valiant horseman profusely and insists that he stay and have a hearty dinner of gruel and scrapple with the family.
Well, in this danger-wary world, things like that can’t happen anymore. Just ask Tulsa man Dennis Byers, whose act of equestrian good will ended in arrest and charges. So what if Byers was a little (ok, a lot) tipsy when he rode his horse around town for five hours with a three-year-old in tow? And so what if he allegedly got the kid lost in the first place?
Tulsa police say the child’s father wanted to buy a horse from Byers, who offered to give the boy a ride to his house. According to a news report, the father was supposed to meet Byers, his horse, and the boy back at the house, but they got separated when the dad got a phone call and Byers got lost. At some point after that, he allegedly had a few drinks, presumably to cope with the stress of suddenly being in possession of someone else’s kid.
The matter finally got resolved when police responded to a report of an intoxicated man on horseback with a small child. Byers got thrown in jail on charges of public intoxication and child endangerment. The boy was placed in state custody while authorities look into his home situation
January 22, 2014 3:08 PM By Nastacia Leshchinskaya
Let’s think back to a simpler time. A man on a horse gallops around with a lost child, seeking nothing but the satisfaction of returning the little tyke to his worried parents. Then (like in this episode of Guy on a Buffalo) he places the precious babe into the arms of his worried mother, who thanks our valiant horseman profusely and insists that he stay and have a hearty dinner of gruel and scrapple with the family.
Well, in this danger-wary world, things like that can’t happen anymore. Just ask Tulsa man Dennis Byers, whose act of equestrian good will ended in arrest and charges. So what if Byers was a little (ok, a lot) tipsy when he rode his horse around town for five hours with a three-year-old in tow? And so what if he allegedly got the kid lost in the first place?
Tulsa police say the child’s father wanted to buy a horse from Byers, who offered to give the boy a ride to his house. According to a news report, the father was supposed to meet Byers, his horse, and the boy back at the house, but they got separated when the dad got a phone call and Byers got lost. At some point after that, he allegedly had a few drinks, presumably to cope with the stress of suddenly being in possession of someone else’s kid.
The matter finally got resolved when police responded to a report of an intoxicated man on horseback with a small child. Byers got thrown in jail on charges of public intoxication and child endangerment. The boy was placed in state custody while authorities look into his home situation