Horses at counter startle Starbucks
You don’t see this too often at Starbucks.
Customers sipping on lattes, Frappuccinos and other java favorites in Steamboat Springs, Colo., recently looked up to find three horses (with riders) at the counter.
The riders’ 10-hour rein of terror included stops at several bars and a Safeway grocery store to the astonishment of store employees and customers (see video).
When the three horsemen approached the Starbucks counter, “I looked at the riders and I told them ‘You have got to go. This violates every policy we have,’ ” an employee told The Steamboat Pilot newspaper.
Local authorities were not amused and used a stun gun on one of the riders when he refused to dismount, according to the Pilot.
Maybe it’s not that big a deal to ride horses in Colorado establishments. Only one of the riders was charged. Michael Joseph Miller is accused of suspicion of harassment, disorderly conduct, obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest.
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13 comments Add your comment
Jason C.
December 14th, 2011
12:42 pm
I doubt Starbucks has a policy against hard-working horses wanting an overpriced cup of joe.
Jed
December 14th, 2011
12:45 pm
Video at http://www.steamboattoday.com/
Uncle Thomas
December 14th, 2011
12:49 pm
Soooo, who wanted java, the riders or the nags?
GEORGIA97
December 14th, 2011
1:02 pm
@Uncle Thomas…..I don’t think the riders brought their wives with them!!!
Bubba
December 14th, 2011
1:08 pm
The Daily Mail has a much better story.
http://tinyurl.com/6vh67hs
Wilbur
December 14th, 2011
1:11 pm
Of course, of course.
angrymeatball
December 14th, 2011
1:13 pm
Well, there coffee does taste like horse piss.
TSB
December 14th, 2011
2:59 pm
They were seeing eye horses. I thought every public establishment was required to allow them to enter.
Rich Black
December 14th, 2011
3:01 pm
I love Gay people.
atl tiger
December 14th, 2011
3:19 pm
“I love Gay people”
They weren’t riding bears?
Denise
December 14th, 2011
5:01 pm
Thanks for the laughs everyone. Of course there were two idiots that have to spoil it…vomit.
Ahmed
December 14th, 2011
10:10 pm
It’s too bad Starbucks is saddled with these types of problems.
Sam
December 14th, 2011
10:27 pm
A quote from the local newspaper(Steamboat Pilot)
“at noon Sunday, Miller, of Steamboat, and friends Kenneth Recker and Roxanne Lange, of Clark, started what they now call a memorable ride through town by galloping up Emerald Mountain on their two Tennessee Walkers and a Morgan Paint Mare. From there, they went to race up and down Howelsen Hill before grabbing drinks at Sunpie’s Bistro. From Sunpie’s, they rode to Double Z Bar & BBQ on Yampa Street. They rode to Old Town Pub, and from the pub, they traveled to a grocery store on the south end of town to grab a bag of chips before heading up to Torian Plum Plaza for a sushi dinner at Saketumi and later a beer at The Tugboat Grill & Pub in Ski Time Square. It was then back into town and another stop at Old Town Pub and a final stop at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Lincoln Avenue, where the riders rode their horses through the bar.”
How can you beat that for sunday afternoon entertainment?
Safeway video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVbCj3ZAhiA