This is ridiculous, but the AP says it’s true:
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The coach of Oklahoma City’s minor-league hockey team helped prevent a possible stampede of Belgian horses at the Oklahoma State Fair by biting one of the animals on its ear.
Do what now?
Doug Sauter, who coaches the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League, was at the fair Saturday attending the Centennial Expo’s Draft Horse Show when he saw a Belgian horse break free from its reins. That caused a chain reaction that spooked other horses, he said Monday.
He bit the ear of one of the spooked horses to stop it from stampeding.
“That’s how you stymie a horse,” he said.
“You bite as hard as you can, and it won’t move.”
In a related, completely fabricated story, two-thirds of the Oklahoma City Blazers have suddenly quit the team.
Do you think he had a tough time getting to the horse’s ear through his mustache?
(photo from the Central Hockey League website)
That’s small for his mustache. You should see (I kid you not) his bobble-head, on sale at the Blazers arena.