Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack, the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Talk Now, Gallup Later department

here at Car Talk Plaza.

Now, this came to us from a listener in the Middle East who asked us not to use his name.

So I'll only say that his first name is Sheik.

He's very chic, too.

He even wrote a little on the way your cohorts rant about mobile phones and automobiles,

I thought they might find the attached article from the Gulf Daily News.

That's the Persian Gulf Daily News.

Interesting.

And here it is.

Headline, horse and rider.

Hurt in crash.

A horse and rider were injured in a road accident in Bahrain yesterday.

Bahrain Yusuf Abdukharian, age 28, was reportedly talking on his mobile phone

when his horse suddenly veered into a passing pickup truck.

Mr. Abu Blah, Blu, was taken to the hospital, the medical complex with back injuries.

The horse was badly injured.

A vet was called to the scene and said it would almost certainly have to be put down.

Oh.

Now, even riding a horse on a cell phone is dangerous.

Well, those microwave transmissions must have upset the horse's guidance system.

Right?

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