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I guess a designated driver is sort of out of the question when you're riding your horse home from the bar:

An early-morning German bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse already in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. It seems the horse's owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer, police said Tuesday.

The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit the hay in the bank on his way home.

"It was late, it was already dark and cold," he was quoted as saying.

So, of course, the logical thing to do would be to park your horse inside a bank. Makes sense to me.

When a customer came across the horse and sleeping rider in the bank at 4:15 a.m. Monday, he called police, who then came and woke the owner up and sent him on his way.

No charges were filed, but there might be some cleanup needed: Apparently Sammy made his own after-hours deposit on the carpet.

I'm guessing that since they let him go, the public intoxication laws in Germany are a little less strict than they are here in the States. That, or the cops just couldn't figure out what the hell to do with the horse while Wolfgang sobered up in the drunk tank.