YOU CAN’T PARK YOUR HORSE HERE, MISTER
The roving portal of interdimensional weirdness opened under Oregon State last season: assaults, paying cab drivers with bags of marijuana before beating them, and driving drunk while in the act of kidnapping gay sheep. We suspected that, like El Nino, it would open up again on a slightly different track and LO!–we were correct.
Frank Solich’s GHB incident perked our ears, but now a firm sighting of the roving portal of interdimensional weirdness can be confirmed, a glowing green current flowing through the numerous one-way streets of Athens, Ohio that will likely be in control of events there for the forseeable future. The evidence: senior football player Cory Logan, arrested early Saturday morning for punching a police horse. (HT: Devil Grad)
Logan, after doing his best Alex Karras imitation, was charged with “persistent disorderly conduct,” which we only wish we’d picked up as a charge at one point in our lifetime. Police were forced to resort to unorthodox methods to restrain Logan after conventional methods failed, utilizing a new method called a “Candygram” to subdue him.
If there is a better story than this during the remainder of the offseason, we will film ourselves eating a hat and post it for the world to see.

High times at Ohio U.









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bitterhorn says:
Mongo just pawn in game of life.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:09 pm
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socalirish says:
Awww, Mongo like sheriff.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:29 pm
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DevilGrad says:
This may be a trend in my home state. In 1995, one of Bob Huggins’s fine young men was arrested for allegedly punching a police horse — four times. And the link I found mentioning Art Long details another incident involving the same poor horse.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/04/16/loc_amos16.html
May 1st, 2006 at 7:38 pm
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italiangator says:
While this is odd, and it’s notable for involving a football player, this is not necessarily unique- first point of evidence, a UF female being arrested for the same offense about 3 months ago-
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/060131horseslap.php
Now, whatever a man, and a woman, and another woman with a penis and a midget with a police horse do on their own time is none of my business, but I’m just saying you’ve got to be fairly inebriated to look at a horse and say “Dammit, horse, you’ve messed with the wrong guy tonight!”
May 1st, 2006 at 8:29 pm
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Steve says:
Anyone ever been to Athens? There are Cops on Horses everywhere. Im guessing he was just practicing the option pitch and accidently hit the horse. Blood Alcohol level higher or lower than OU’s all time winning %?
May 1st, 2006 at 8:35 pm
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Brian says:
Steve – OUCH. Nice thought. I’d say at least the bowl record is lower than the BAC.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:00 pm
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RowdyRoddyPiper says:
I think Logan was actually charged with “assault on a police horse”, which is way better than persistent disorderly conduct.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:26 pm
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tim in tampa says:
Rumor is the whole thing is blown out of proportion… we should hope. I’d like to keep Alma Mater Ohio out of the Fullmer Cup standings… the best I can say is this: we’ll never be as bad as Marshall.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
How far does one have to take things before one’s conduct is deemed persistently disorderly?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:41 pm
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Chuck says:
I love your infatuation with Blazing Saddles. Easily Mel Brooks’ best film, with Young Frankenstein #2.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
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phil says:
Persistant disorderly conduct? That sums up my first 7 years of college.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pm
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Harris says:
As another OU alum, I’m disappointed. Doesn’t this kid know such behavior is only acceptable on Halloween and the now-annual Spring Riot? Halloween in Athens: If you can remebmber it, you weren’t there.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:20 am
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Orson Swindle says:
After all the GHB and horse-punching…we think we need to visit Athens.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:44 am
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DevilGrad says:
Fulmer scoring: Do the Kittens get a style point for this one?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 am
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NoleinTexas says:
Wait, if he punched the horse once, shouldn’t that be haphazard disorderly conduct?
Now, if he started to work the ribs a little before using the jab, that may be persistent.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:04 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Fine comment, NIT.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:07 am
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gatorjess says:
italiangator: You do have to be superdrunk, but it helps if the officers are anything like the ones hovering around the 2nd Ave courthouse in Gainesville at 2am, because they will herd you up against the wall and have the horse step on your toe. True story.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:02 am
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Robb says:
gatorjess,
If a person can be charged with assaulting a police officer for punching a police horse — and s/he can and often is — it seems to me that a person who has had their toe stepped on by a police horse would have a claim under the Sec. 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the applicable state statute.
And your pleading would totally get on The Smoking Gun, so you’d have that going for you. Which would be nice.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
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italiangator says:
gatorjess- I shall take your words as motivation to stagger downtown from midtown tonight and see if I can’t reenact the incident to the best of my ability
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:56 pm