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The miniature colt was recaptured early on, but his mother escaped a second time in Oklahoma City on Friday.
Two miniature horses led motorists, state troopers and animal welfare officers on a merry chase in Oklahoma City for several hours Friday, causing a traffic accident that injured a woman, officials said.
"It's Oklahoma, what do you expect?" Jeannie Troxel, a motorist who stopped to help corral the horses, told NBC station KFOR of Oklahoma City.
The horses — a light brown mare and her colt — broke loose from their field and were first spotted about 4 a.m. (5 a.m. ET), eventually ending up on Interstate 40. The posse of state troopers, animal welfare officers and passing motorists managed to corral the colt, but the mare got loose a second time.
KFOR
The horses were back in their field in Oklahoma on Friday — eight hours and one wreck later.
"We almost hit the horse," said Troxel, who drove past the scene about 7 a.m. "All you could do is — 'Oh, my God.'"
A white truck whose driver had spotted the excitement ran off the road and into a tree, state Trooper Betsy Randolph told The Oklahoman newspaper. The woman's condition wasn't immediately available.
Officials said the horses were finally rounded up shortly after noon local time. Animal welfare officials told KFOR that the owners, who haven't been identified, were cited with violations.
"We've been running on foot back and forth, so it's been quite eventful," Troxel told KFOR.
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A white truck hitting a tree is a traffic pileup?
It's Oklahoma, what do you expect?
"A white truck whose driver had spotted the excitement ran off the road and into a tree, state Trooper Betsy Randolph told The Oklahoman newspaper. The woman's condition wasn't immediately available."
Looks like the Journalist is from Oklahoma too...
Did the lady get off the truck and then run into a tree or did she drive the white truck into a tree?
No wonder the ponies want out of Oklahoma...
Oklahoma could also spend a little bit of state tax dollars cleaning up all the garbage along their roads. Anyone who has traveled these roads probably knows what I am saying. Surely, tourists can't be impressed.
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Horses even small ones are not stupid mammals. Possiibly they are mistreated and thus ran when the opp presented itself.
I have seen some run from its abuser in the past---and it is a possibility not to be neglected!
rooster- reminds me alot of messico!
"IT'S OKLAHOMA WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?" What a moronic statement. Animals of all kinds have caused accidents and traffic jambs in every state in the union. Including New York. Feminist writers that work for MSN should travel more. They got in house plumbing, telephones and even McDonalds' in Oklahoma now. You should try it.
The horses ran because of some Senator sends them to Mexico to be killed...
Alex Johnson, I'm from OK and what can I say? oh ya, go F#@$ yourself....oh and burger king also finds this incident as a big waste of perfectly good whopper meat.
'It's Oklahoma, what do you expect?'
I was wondering where all the cowboys were?? OKC is the home of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, surely they should of had some cowboys there!
Not very many midget cowboys in OK..
This is exactly what I expect from Oklahoma, the state where everyone carries a Colt. Gun owners are total morons! Naturally anyone in that state will do something stupid in a traffic accident. We need to ban hand guns now. I have no idea how people in Oklahoma will get by once we do it, but I could care less.
davey-526212
When ranting about things which you don't have facts ie: "Oklahoma, the state where everyone carries a Colt" and then taking an animal escape story and somehow making it about the need to ban guns(?), please remember that you're suppose to start off with blaming President Obama, then move to name calling of the other bloggers, and eventually making it a Republican vs Democrat thing.
If you are going to say irrelevant things at least get the pecking order correct.
davey
I think you are barking up wrong tree......
drama drama drama-grow up!
The little ponies can't because they're full grown.
hi ho silver and away!!!
I almost hit a cow standing in the road at 1:00 a.m. It's Wisconsin. What do you expect?
(Too bad it was on a country road and I didn't call in the media.)
;) What were you doing standing in the road at 1 am? har dee har har har!
Hitch hiking...?
Maybe we can get them Banned.
No limit them to 7 per owner
lol
showed all them huh ?
I almost ran into an elk by Banff but it's British Columbia, Canada, so what do you expect?
I almost ran into an Orca in my boat but it's Puget Sound, so what do you expect?
This My little ponies craze has gotten out of hand.
Not very PC of them!
I am happy this ended successfully for the little "guys" (I know not PC) - I love miniature horses and hope their owners take better care of them!
Fu""k PC crap! LOL!! We should ban PC! :) Glad the horsies are ok! The interstate is not the safest place for the little ponies!
I wonder if they taste like chicken.
Ignorance only breeds mor ignorance Wolfpack
Oh lighten up moron.....just relax and take that pole out of your ass so you wouldn't be so uptight.
They actually taste more like bald eagle.
Go little horsies, go!! Run like the wind!!!!
The HORSES didn't cause the traffice pileup. It was the HUMANS who didn't have adequate fencing. The first rule of horse ownership (and cattle) is GOOD FENCING. Anything less, is putting the lives of drivers on the road at risk. Barring a windstorm that knocks down a good fence, the humans clearly have the fault here. And with this kind of horse ownership, no wonder the little guys took off.
I was in a car that hit a black cow that was in the middle of the highway at night. My husband was nearly killed and I was wounded. Our friends' car was totaled. I have no sympathy for irresponsible animal owners. (And, I own horses.)
It was an Interstate, the state is responsible for the fence along it, how did they get out on the road?
Sara the cow wounded you? OMG what wepon did she use? I missed the part in the story about how the horses got loose. How do you know it was bad fencing? I hit a deer one time, can I sue god?
Sara, the cow wounded you? Sara, it appears you have been gored.
Sara the cow, wounded you? For those injured by the cow named Sara.
Sara the cow wounded you? The interviewer was unsure who or what had caused the injury.
obviously you don't know the vertical leap capability of a miniature pony...
And neither do their owners!
they broke loose from their field.WTF
does that they escaped?OMG
I bet they get an additional 5 years tacked on for the escape attempt.
lol
Did they catch the smirfs that were riding them?
this just made my day, too funny!
My daughter owns minature horses.... They are incredibly fast little guys. No wonder they had trouble catching them on foot...lol...
little ponies are creepy
We have had two cattle trucks over turn with-in a hundred miles of where I live. One near El Paso, Tx and the other was only a few mile from me here in New Mexico. Some were killed, many injured and many more just wandering around the highway. That was a mess. In a case like this you get a chance to see who the real cowboys are.
Miniature horses are cute! I'm glad they are okay, and I hope the driver who " ran off into a tree" will be okay.
it wasn't the horses that caused the traffic crashes but the lousy drivers that didn't react right to the hazard.
they were probably TEXTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Three To Cause A Traffic Accident:
1. DUI.
2. Texting.
3. Mini horses that escaped from their fenced area.
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In Oklahoma, as in many a place-
On the road, no one ever knows what they might face.
Typical! People knowing nothing about animals, Chasing Them!
This is what passes for excitement here, so we don't really have a tourist problem per se, just horses trying to escape...
This looks like a poor attempt to restate an article without blatantly plagarizing the original text. Otherwise, someone needs to start proof-reading their work before posting.