This Tampa Tribune article has the potential to be a comedy skit.
TAMPA - Police arrested a Lakeland man early this morning on charges that he punched a police horse in the rear end.Maybe the horse was unavailable for comment.It should be no surprise the incident occurred about 3:15 a.m. in Ybor City.
The Tampa Police Department report said the officer and horse were clearing the street and sidewalks in the 19th Street area of Seventh Avenue.
Carl Coward, 24, of 111 Hodges Road, Lakeland, balled his fist and punched the horse in the right rear hip area, the report states.
Coward was charged with battery of a law enforcement animal and is being held at the Orient Road Jail on $500 bond, jail records show.
The report does not indicate whether the horse suffered any serious injury.
A human punch is unlikely to inflict harm to a horse, notwithstanding the famous scene from the movie Cat Ballou. Coward is lucky not to have gotten a kick in return from the horse. A few years ago there was the story of a man filming his friend as he tried to have nookie with a horse. The horse kicked and or stomped the friend to death.
Not the article says it should come as no surprise this happened in Ybor City. Is Ybor City Florida the horse punching capitol of Florida or the world? As I so often say, you just got to love the Sunshine State.
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Comments (12)
I got in trouble once for p... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Stephen Macklin | April 7, 2008 11:03 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I got in trouble once for punching a horse's ass once - beut he had it coming.
1. Posted by Stephen Macklin | April 7, 2008 11:03 PM |
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Posted on April 7, 2008 23:03
2. Posted by wavemaker | April 7, 2008 11:04 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Cat Ballou?!? What about Alex Karras as "Mongo" in Blazing Saddles?
2. Posted by wavemaker | April 7, 2008 11:04 PM |
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Posted on April 7, 2008 23:04
3. Posted by Matt | April 7, 2008 11:06 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
He would of never punched the horse if the Officer had a Scimitar.
3. Posted by Matt | April 7, 2008 11:06 PM |
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Posted on April 7, 2008 23:06
4. Posted by Scrapiron | April 7, 2008 11:20 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
He wouldn't punch a horse if he had a brain. Streight from jail to the future home of all democrats, a facility for the criminally insane, before it fills up.
4. Posted by Scrapiron | April 7, 2008 11:20 PM |
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Posted on April 7, 2008 23:20
5. Posted by Imhotep | April 8, 2008 12:08 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I believe the author was 'not surprised' that it was 3:15 am!
Ybor City must be bad too, if they use mounted police at that time of day to 'clear the streets'.
5. Posted by Imhotep | April 8, 2008 12:08 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 00:08
6. Posted by Jay Tea | April 8, 2008 2:10 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I'm with wavemaker.
"Mongo! Santa Maria!"
J.
6. Posted by Jay Tea | April 8, 2008 2:10 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 02:10
7. Posted by Captain Ned | April 8, 2008 9:34 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Mongo no leave. Mongo love Sherriff Bart.
7. Posted by Captain Ned | April 8, 2008 9:34 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 09:34
8. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2008 9:40 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Because sex with animals is not barred by law in Washington state, no arrests have been made"
The Nags of WA all winnie a sigh of relief.
8. Posted by 914 | April 8, 2008 9:40 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 09:40
9. Posted by Denise | April 8, 2008 9:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Not the first time in Ybor City!
Woman Charged With Punching Police Horse-Shades of "Blazing Saddles"
TAMPA - A 26-year-old Tampa woman was arrested this morning, accused of punching a police horse outside an Ybor City nightclub.
9. Posted by Denise | April 8, 2008 9:48 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 09:48
10. Posted by Steve Hart | April 8, 2008 11:12 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mr. Jempty,
Love your work. I read NRO online every day. About your post on the drunk who punches a police horse, isn't the movie you meant to reference "Blazing Saddles"? Not Cat Ballou. Remember "Mungo", Alex Karras punching the horse?
Also, the poor guy who died after having sex with a horse was not kicked or stomoed to death. His colon and lower intestine were demolished from the ................... (fill in the blank) and he bled to death internally. Thanks, Steve H
10. Posted by Steve Hart | April 8, 2008 11:12 AM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 11:12
11. Posted by John F Not Kerry | April 8, 2008 3:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There is a joke in here about feeling hoarse, but I can't quite find the proper words for it.
11. Posted by John F Not Kerry | April 8, 2008 3:18 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 15:18
12. Posted by wavemaker | April 8, 2008 10:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I been to Ybor City. And I seen them horses.
Like the one that slugged the cop's ride.
12. Posted by wavemaker | April 8, 2008 10:39 PM |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 22:39