http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3688186.stmA court decision effectively permitting those over the legal drink-drive limit to ride a horse has been puzzling people in the US state of Pennsylvania.
Local press columnists are musing over the ruling, which concerns an accident between two horsemen and a driver - all of whom had been drinking. The court said horses cannot be classed as vehicles, so the two horsemen could not be found guilty of drunk driving.
The decision by the state supreme court provoked a flurry of comments in local newspapers. And a local judge, Justice Michael Eakin, offered his attack on the ruling in the form of a rhyme:
"'It's not vague,' I'll say until I'm hoarse,/ And whether a car, a truck or horse/ This law applies with equal force..."