A woman has been charged after she allegedly rode a horse to a Queensland bottle shop (or liquor store, for non-Australians) while drunk.
According to a police statement, officers were called to a pub in Logan Central, south of Brisbane, late on Monday night.
The woman, 51, had allegedly ridden to the business and then went through the bottle shop drive-thru while still on the horse.
In a video published by Queensland Police, a woman can be seen handing over a backpack to a police officer before dismounting the horse.
“It’s a big animal, that’s all,” one officer can be heard saying in the video.
An officer told the woman: “It’s the same as driving a car, you can’t ride a horse over the legal limit.”
She was arrested and a test allegedly found her to be more than four times the legal limit.
“We’ll need another crew to assist with dealing with the horse,” says an officer in the video.
Officers initially walked the horse to the local police station with the woman, and then council workers walked it to an address in nearby Marsden.
Queensland Police reiterated that riding a horse while drunk is an offence.
"Police want to remind the public that drink driving does not just mean a vehicle, it can include a horse," it said in a statement.
The woman will appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on June 26.
The offence of being in charge of a horse on a road while drunk carries a maximum penalty of a $5,046 fine or nine months in prison.