# Man rides horse through hospital **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335 "2008-03-22T14:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/1 "2008-03-22T14:58:09Z")
[Hey, it was for dear old dad:](http://www.kitv.com/news/15672448/detail.html) > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/2 "2008-03-22T15:20:58Z")
Maybe he thought it was a horsepital? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/3 "2008-03-22T15:40:38Z")
No horseplay in the nursing wing! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/4 "2008-03-22T15:46:33Z")
I guess Bill Ray [“Doc Cassidy”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_(TV_series)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/5 "2008-03-22T18:43:31Z")
Neigh. Whinnie got there, he could have brought the horse in if he’d ponied up the cash. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/6 "2008-03-22T19:30:19Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/7 "2008-03-22T19:36:20Z")
" . . . and I just want to be able to say, ‘I know.’" ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/8 "2008-03-22T20:49:09Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/9 "2008-03-22T23:58:24Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/10 "2008-03-23T03:20:35Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/11 "2008-03-23T04:43:34Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/12 "2008-03-23T14:48:35Z")
[QUOTE=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? [/QUOTE] Also that they “escorted” the horse. They didn’t shoo it away, but rather gave it the respect a random horse deserves. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/13 "2008-03-23T17:03:49Z")
Wait, wait, when they say “The animal was escorted out of the building” were they referring to the horse or its rider? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/14 "2008-03-23T20:48:57Z")
[Doctor Octagon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Octagonecologyst), anyone? [General Hospital](http://www.lyrics007.com/Dr.%20Octagon%20Lyrics/General%20Hospital%20Lyrics.html) > [@](#): > > Oh shit, there’s a horse in the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-rides-horse-through-hospital/442335/15 "2008-03-23T21:13:59Z")
Was it a pale horse? And did the man carry a scythe?