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No course for a horse: Man rides onto California freeway

Authorities said a drunken man rode his horse onto a California freeway.

The California Highway Patrol stopped the man early Saturday on State Route 91 in Long Beach.

Officers administered field sobriety tests, which registered blood-alcohol levels of 0.21 percent and 0.19 percent – more than double the legal limit.

The man was arrested and booked for riding a horse while under the influence. The white horse, Guera, wasn’t hurt and was released to the man’s mother.

The California Highway Patrol offered a message to the public on Twitter: “No, you may not ride your horse on the freeway, and certainly not while intoxicated.”

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{“url”:”https://twitter.com/CHP_SFS/status/967331502592745472″,”author_name”:”CHP Santa Fe Springs”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CHP_SFS”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;No, you may not ride your horse on the freeway, and certainly not while intoxicated. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#CHP&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/IQ09Qgeq4j”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/IQ09Qgeq4j&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;— CHP Santa Fe Springs (@CHP_SFS) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/CHP_SFS/status/967331502592745472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;February 24, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

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