Two Amish Men Were Caught Drinking While Driving A Horse And Buggy And Blasting Music
Trumbull County Sheriff’s OfficeIn the buggy were open bottles of alcohol in addition to a full 12-pack of Michelob Ultra. Nobody has yet come forward to claim their belongings, including the horse and buggy.
Drinking and driving should never go hand-in-hand even if you’re driving a horse and buggy. In September, two Amish men were busted doing just that with a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra while driving their buggy tricked out with a stereo system that was blasting music.
Officers from the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department in Ohio made the discovery during a routine traffic stop around 1 a.m. When Deputy Eric Hermsdorfer asked the two men to pull their buggy over on Donley and Mahan Parker Roads in North Bloomfield, the unidentified men lept off the buggy and disappeared into the woods.
The horse, meanwhile, continued to trot down the road until it was stopped by local police. During an inspection of the buggy, authorities found several open bottles of alcohol beside the sound system. The vehicle was then towed and the police kept the horse until its owner could claim it.
But nobody came forward.
While the Amish community at large doesn’t forbid its members from consuming alcohol, many of its sects do, though it has not been confirmed which sect the two men belonged to — perhaps their quick escape indicated as much. It’s still unclear who the men were and what they were doing on their joyride.
Regardless of which sect they came from, drinking while driving is illegal even if it is on horseback and members of the Amish community have received DUIs for such behavior before.
In April, a 21-year-old Ohioan ran a stop sign and subsequently admitted he drank 10 beers beforehand. In 2012, four Amish people were arrested for drinking while underage and crashing their buggy into other buggies, then fleeing the scene.
