Drunken man parks horse in bank foyer

This news of the weird story made me smile today. According to the Associated Press, an early morning customer discovered a man sleeping in the heated foyer of a bank in the east German village of Wiesenburg early this week. Standing next to the snoozing man was his horse, Sammy, who the man had apparently taken in with him the night before.

The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit the hay in the bank on his way home. Confronted with the lack of a hitching-post, he brought the 6-year-old horse in with him. The startled customer contacted police around 4 a.m. who entered the lobby and asked the man (and horse) to leave.

No charges were filed, but there might be some cleanup needed: Apparently Sammy made his own after-hours deposit on the carpet.