For law enforcement officials, tracking runaway offenders is just another day at the office. But for two separate lawmen thousands of miles apart, the job required a new set of skills: horse wrangling.
In Colorado, four horses escaped the Eagle County Fairgrounds after one of the critters kicked down the makeshift corral. The rodeo horses took off into the night. What made the situation worse was that the horses galloped onto the I-70 freeway. “That’s a worst-case scenario for us,” Colorado State Patrol Trooper Jacob Best told a local news outlet, “having livestock on the interstate.”
As luck would have it, a few professional horsewomen who were driving away from the rodeo grounds not only saw the horses loose and called 9-1-1, but one of them was conveniently hauling her empty horse trailer.