Man rides horse through hospital

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Hey, it was for dear old dad:

Hospital officials confirmed a horse trotted through Wilcox Memorial Hospital earlier this month.

A spokesman for the hospital said a man called the hospital and said he was going to ride his father’s horse into the hospital, where his father was a patient.

“He proceeded to take the horse up the elevator up to the nursing floor where he was met by security and our nurse supervisor,” said the spokesman.

The man, who appeared intoxicated at the time, posed for pictures with the horse and an off-duty nurse.

The animal was escorted out of the building after the man’s father claimed the horse wasn’t his.

“We do have a pet visitation policy, but it does not include a horse,” said the spokesman.

[Johnny_L.A]

Maybe he thought it was a horsepital?

[Autolycus]

No horseplay in the nursing wing!

[Annie-Xmas]

I guess Bill Ray “Doc Cassidy” Cyrus has to do something to get attention, now that his daughter Miley “Hannah Montana” has become a bigger star then he’ll ever be.

[Fugazi]

Neigh. Whinnie got there, he could have brought the horse in if he’d ponied up the cash.

[Quartz]

Some places do visits with miniature horses. I’m guessing this one wasn’t so small.

BTW WRT the lift, is anyone else channelling True Lies?

[WF_Tomba]

" . . . and I just want to be able to say, ‘I know.’"

[tremorviolet]

The animal was escorted out of the building after the man’s father claimed the horse wasn’t his.

This is my favorite part.

One, the guy just brings some random horse to the hospital.

Two, are they saying that is it was his father’s horse, they would’ve let it stay?

[Chimera]

I’ve been through the hospital on a horse with no name.
It felt good to be out of the rain.

Sorry, all things being equine, it just doesn’t flow.

[StGermain]

Recently I was talking to the granddaughter of the women who used to own my house. She was telling me about when she was in college, back in the '60’s. The house is about 15 miles away from the college, but the granddaughter was much too cute a young thing to visit her hick grandparents in the country. After not coming to see them for several weekends, she got a phone call from her granddad asking if she wanted to go to lunch. When she sid sure, when would he like to meet her, he said he was in the lobby of the dorm. She hurried down, wanting to get her toothless, overall-clad granpda out of public view. She got down to the lobby to see him sitting there on the bare back of his mule, who’d let a big steaming pile go on the carpet. She called her grandma and asked if she knew where her husband was. The grandma got on the phone with the grandpa and told him to ride that mule back RIGHT NOW. The granddaughter never missed a weekend visit again. A 30 mile mule-ride to make a point.

StG

[NinjaChick]

A spokesman for the hospital said a man called the hospital and said he was going to ride his father’s horse into the hospital, where his father was a patient.

That’s by far the best part. Wouldn’t you love to hear how that conversation went?

[guizot]

@tremorviolet

This is my favorite part.

One, the guy just brings some random horse to the hospital.

Two, are they saying that is it was his father’s horse, they would’ve let it stay?

Also that they “escorted” the horse. They didn’t shoo it away, but rather gave it the respect a random horse deserves.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Wait, wait, when they say “The animal was escorted out of the building” were they referring to the horse or its rider?

[jnglmassiv]

Doctor Octagon, anyone?
General Hospital

Oh shit, there’s a horse in the hospital.

[Quartz]

Was it a pale horse? And did the man carry a scythe?