I know we’ve covered this topic many times, but I just can’t help discussing it when we see more news stories about people under the influence of alcohol riding horses through the streets. Unfortunately, unlike some of the other ones we’ve discussed, this story has an unhappy ending.

Dateline: Elizabethtown, Ky. Two men in their 20s were riding their horses along a side road around 8:30 at night when an oncoming vehicle hit both horses and riders. One horse was injured and the other was killed, while the two men escaped with only minor injuries. The injured horse was taken to a nearby farm for veterinarian care and is expected to make a full recovery.

Both men were cited for DUIs (one was only 20), but the driver that hit the horses was not charged.

Of course there’s anger towards the two men who were riding their horses in the dark, drunk, along what might have been a busy road. Because of their “joyride” a horse was killed. They’re lucky the other horse will make a full recovery, and that there weren’t any more serious injuries to the driver or themselves