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Drunk Buggy Driving: 4 Amish Men Face Charges After Colliding With Police Car

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The Huffington Post   First Posted: 03/12/2012 2:08 pm Updated: 03/12/2012 2:16 pm

Friends don't let friends drink and buggy.

Cops in western New York arrested four young Amish adults on Sunday and slapped them with underage alcohol possession charges after they allegedly drank booze and crashed their buggy into a deputy's car. Police say the car had arrived on the scene to respond to complaints of people drinking in their buggies, MSNBC reported.

The unidentified men were riding down a rural road in Sherman -- about 80 miles southwest of Buffalo -- at about 7:15 p.m. when their buggy hit the Chautauqua County Sheriff's patrol car and flipped on its side, leaving all four with minor injuries, cops said.

There are conflicting reports that the patrol car hit the buggy when riders tried to change lanes.

Several other buggies reportedly fled the scene.

It's the second of two buggying and driving incidents in the same general area of New York in the past 8 months. In July 2011, 17-year-old Lewis Hostetler allegedly led a patrol car on a low-speed chase after a cop saw him drinking beer in his buggy. Hostetler was arrested after the short chase.

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12:48 PM on 03/17/2012
I live just south of Nappanee, IN which has one of the largest concentrations of Amish outside of Pennsylvania and I'm having some problems with the details of the crash. The only way I can see the horse running into the car is if the officer pulled out in front of it suddenly or pass and cut in on it too suddenly. And yes, they are human like everyone else but they generally have a strong work ethic.
11:18 PM on 03/15/2012
this kind of thing happened all the time back in the old days. not to mention the danger someone stealing your horse too. they called it, '' grand theft equine ''. .
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Lad123
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07:17 AM on 03/15/2012
As a horse owner I have a real problem with this story. Horses will avoid obsticles at all costs. I am thinking the cop did some manuever to the buggy thus knocking it over. And how the hell do you drunk drive a buggy? The horse knows where home is, it will take itself there. I have riden home from a party or two on my horse.
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ennis438
09:24 AM on 03/14/2012
The argument could always be the police car was in the way. LOL.
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aritul
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09:06 PM on 03/13/2012
I hope the horse was ok.
12:04 PM on 03/13/2012
In the old days, when EVERYBODY drove buggies, wagons, etc., if someone got drunk, the horse knew how to get home. Seldom were there accidents, until the horseless carriage came along, and required judgement in order to drive safely. Before then, nobody even thought about it. How about the horse in this article? Was it hurt? Look out folks, here comes PETA.
08:54 AM on 03/13/2012
I bet they made their own liquor in the corn silo.
02:47 AM on 03/13/2012
There is no dought the horse is responsable for the collision. Not the passengers.
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ennis438
09:26 AM on 03/14/2012
Yeah. Tell those horses to not break the law and hit a police car. Don't they know better? Wonder what the horse's punishment will be. Pick up after himself for a year, maybe.
01:12 AM on 03/13/2012
How's the horse? No one mentioned the horse! Was is confined to it's stable for horsing around?
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Sarkazmo
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09:28 PM on 03/12/2012
Amish beard cuttings and now drinking and buggying... what's next Drive By Rake Fights? Thou best get to steppin' or Imma gonna take a rake to thine posterior, yo!
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PhloxJeana
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01:28 AM on 03/14/2012
F&F!
09:27 PM on 03/12/2012
I live in Sherman,NY and I drive these families places. They will not "shun" them BUT they will pay for it when they get home! It's just the young ones sowing their oats per say. Happens when they reach a certain age. The amish are really some of the best people I know. Don't be too fast to judge their culture.
05:15 PM on 03/12/2012
Haha nice
05:11 PM on 03/12/2012
I know these families, don't be so quick to judge them or their way of life...they live about 14 miles from me, and these guys are normally hard working, sober individuals
09:29 PM on 03/12/2012
I totally agree with this!!!
09:39 PM on 03/12/2012
Thanks, and anyone who truely knows or interacts with these people would say it also.
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Llib Noswad
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05:08 PM on 03/12/2012
I predict that they will be in even more serious trouble after they get out of jail and go home. Was the horse sober?
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jlgcox
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04:52 PM on 03/12/2012
LOL! There was an documentary on American Experience (PBS) about The Amish - I wonder if these guys will be "SHUNNED" . Shun in the Amish world mean to be exiled from your family and community.