Colo. deputy wrangles escaped horse on highway, movie displays
By Mark Price tag

The Charlotte Observer
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A horse working totally free by means of a Colorado community was speedily brought beneath manage when a sheriff’s deputy hopped on its again and rode the animal approximately a few miles back again dwelling as a result of city traffic.
It happened Jan. 8 in Centennial, just south of Denver, and Deputy Ian Sebold suggests the horse was terrified by the time he acquired to the scene.
Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Business office officials posted video of what followed on Fb, joking the horse “tried to make a clear getaway but Deputy Sebold was considerably also fast.”
“The cowboy cop responded to the phone, wrangled the horse, jumped on its back again and rode it to basic safety,” the department wrote. “The horse, by the way, is in steady situation.”
It’s a fitting coincidence that Sebold, an 82nd Airborne veteran, not only was raised on a ranch, but also is teaching for the Arapahoe Mounted Device, which patrols on horse back. He claims the Military taught him how to do matters “on the fly,” which also proved helpful.
“I noticed the horse crossing the road, and it’s a four-lane important roadway. I could inform he was terrified,” Sebold informed McClatchy Information.
“A citizen was walking nearby, hoping to stop targeted traffic to enable him to get across. You could see in his confront, he did not know what to do on a big roadway. He just desired to go home, but did not know how to get there.”
Sebold and other deputies ultimately found the horse in an condominium sophisticated, in which a group experienced collected, such as folks waving carrots.
“With no trailer to acquire him home, the simplest concept was to trip him again,” Sebold mentioned. “There was no saddle, no halter, but I received a raise — old college way — and hopped on. To me, the largest problem was how to get this horse securely out of a key residential space. We were not strolling people 2.6 miles.”
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The other deputies provided an escort, blocking website traffic till the horse produced it via intersections, which includes a single highway with a 55-mph velocity restrict.
Sebold states it was sunset before they arrived at the horse’s pasture, with the entrepreneurs trailing at the rear of in a vehicle. The horse had been functioning cost-free as prolonged as four several hours, and it was exhausted, he claimed.
The department’s Mounted Device also posted video of his experience, noting there ended up “a good deal of amusing points to say about this video, but we want to say the critical points.”
“Deputy Sebold is driving a bizarre horse, who is just about surely afraid, down the street in vehicular targeted visitors, with nothing but a halter and direct,” the unit wrote. “That’s some remarkable horsemanship, to say the minimum.”
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