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Police corral horse near Marquette
By Linda Spice of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Jan. 26, 2009 7:05 a.m.

No, it wasn't your imagination. Yes, there was a horse running loose near the Marquette University campus last night.

It didn't take long for Milwaukee police and sheriff's deputies to pick him up and bring him in, so to speak, but it was apparently nearly two hours before the animal's owner realized the horse had escaped from its trailer.

Three callers reported the horse running loose and in traffic just before 6 p.m. near N. 25th and W. St. Paul Ave.

Milwaukee police later reported the horse appeared to be calm when officers stopped the animal in the 1900 block of W. St. Paul Ave.

They called for a sheriff's department trailer.

Officers noted that the horse had a blanket on its back so appeared to belong to someone. That someone finally called about 7:34 p.m.

She was a student at Marquette who told police that her boyfriend had a horse in a trailer and lost it somewhere near Marquette. He had dropped her off near N. 11th and W. Wells St. and had already made it to Beloit before realizing the horse was gone.

The police call records indicate the man was returning to pick up the horse.

What MU students or their boy/girlfriend has a horse? had to have been a grad student.

this is the craziest thing i have heard in a long time.

Quote from: Eford4President2012 on January 26, 2009, 08:35:15 AM
Milwaukee police later reported the horse appeared to be calm when officers stopped the animal in the 1900 block of W. St. Paul Ave

Clearly the horse had just stepped out of Sobelman's.

By the title of the thread I thought Harangody's mom was on the loose.

Quote from: chapman on January 26, 2009, 10:16:25 AM
Clearly the horse had just stepped out of Sobelman's.

Couldn't resist the burger.

Quote from: reinko on January 26, 2009, 10:32:35 AM
By the title of the thread I thought Harangody's mom was on the loose.

Easily one of the top 20 posts ever!

Quote from: jaybilaswho? on January 26, 2009, 09:49:13 AM
this is the craziest thing i have heard in a long time.

Rumor has it Mr. Ed tried to enter the floor against DePaul at the BC and call time out.

Quote from: jaybilaswho? on January 26, 2009, 09:49:13 AM
What MU students or their boy/girlfriend has a horse? had to have been a grad student.

this is the craziest thing i have heard in a long time.

The girlfriend got dropped off near 11th and Wells on a Sunday night. Probably Cobeen, possibly Carpenter.

The alleged horse was one of Crean's former bigman recruits. All the 2 legged players turned him down.

Quote from: drewm88 on January 26, 2009, 09:05:51 PM
The girlfriend got dropped off near 11th and Wells on a Sunday night. Probably Cobeen, possibly Carpenter.

Freshman girl, dating a townie

From the Marquette Tribune:  http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2009/01/27/News/Horse.On.Loose.In.Milwaukee-3598097.shtml (http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2009/01/27/News/Horse.On.Loose.In.Milwaukee-3598097.shtml)

Horse on loose in Milwaukee
By Christopher Placek

It's not often that a horse roams unattended through the streets of Milwaukee in 2009.

But that's what eyewitnesses saw Sunday night in the Menomonee Valley.

The horse belongs to the family of a Marquette freshman's boyfriend, who was returning the student to Cobeen Hall Sunday night. The boyfriend, who competes in college rodeo, was dropping his girlfriend off before returning to school in Missouri with his two horses.

The boyfriend's father said both horses were tied up in his son's trailer but that one horse could have untied the other.

"She must have backed right up and popped the latch — 800 pounds on that door," said the father, who operates a ranch in Wisconsin where the two horses were trained.

The loose horse — Breezy — was spotted by witnesses near 25th Street and St. Paul Avenue, according to Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kim Brooks.

All the horse had was its lead rope and a harness blanket. Dave Sobelman, owner of Sobelman's Pub & Grill, 1900 W. St. Paul Ave., had noticed the horse walking calmly down the street, headed east around 6 p.m.

"I ran out of the bar and everyone followed me," Sobelman said. "It took us a second - I don't know if that's really what I saw."

Sobelman and a waiter had grabbed the horse by its rope, until police arrived moments later.

It's unclear when the 6-year-old Breezy escaped. But the boyfriend realized one of his horses was missing when he stopped near Beloit.

"For some reason he just had a gut feeling or something," his mother said. "He opened and saw only one horse there and what a panic we were all in."

By then, the horse was with the police. The other horse that remained in the trailer — High Dollar — had injured its leg in transit. The boyfriend returned to Milwaukee to bring that horse to a veterinarian. He then returned on the road to Missouri with Breezy.

High Dollar, a 10-year-old horse, is on antibiotics and is expected to return to the owner's family ranch.

"We are just grateful that Breezy is okay and nobody got hurt, and saying our prayers that Dollar can be up and performing," the mother said.