“No One Should Steal A Horse, Of Course” #MindOfMarlar
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
If American Western films and television are any indication of true history (and I’m sure they are – we all know The Lone Ranger and Maverick were real people), stealing a horse is not only frowned upon – it’s a hanging offense – sometimes without the burdensome nuisance of a judge and jury… or even a trial. It all depends on who does the catching.Fortunately, most of the world now believes that stealing a man’s pack horse is still a no-no, but it only deserves some time in the stock house. A 19-year-old Polish man might be heading to the clink for anywhere from three months to up to five years because he not only stole a steed, he also tried to hide it in his tiny one-bedroom apartment on the third floor of a multi-family apartment building...
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| 0:00.0 | If American Western films and television are any indication of true history, and I'm sure they are, we all know the lone ranger and maverick were real people, stealing a horse is not only frowned upon, it's a hanging offense, sometimes without the burdensome |
| 0:15.5 | nuisance of a judge and jury, or even a trial. |
| 0:19.2 | It all depends on who does the catching. |
| 0:21.9 | Fortunately, most of the world now believes that stealing a man's |
| 0:25.0 | pack horse is still a no-no, but it only deserves some time in the stockhouse. A 19-year-old Polish man might be heading to the clink for anywhere from three months to up to five years because he not only stole a steed, he also tried to hide it in his tiny one bedroom apartment on the third floor of a multi-family apartment |
| 0:45.5 | building. |
| 0:46.5 | I've known at people to bring their motorcycles or scooters into their home so they wouldn't |
| 0:51.2 | be stolen from outside. I used to do the same thing with my bike |
| 0:54.8 | that I peddled eight blocks to work every morning, but I can't imagine that being very convenient |
| 0:59.9 | with a full-sized Philly. I've seen more than one TV show and a few films where somebody rides a horse into or through |
| 1:07.5 | a building, house or apartment. |
| 1:10.2 | On screen it's funny. |
| 1:11.2 | In real life, it's still considered funny, I guess, because when this guy was trying to take the horse up the stairs, most everyone believed at first that it was a practical joke. |
| 1:21.0 | Someone eventually realized, though, that we're a bit too early a one to the pokey. Upon arriving, the cops found the horse and the young man who |
| 1:34.4 | stole it, still in the stairwell. The man's plan was to sneak it in and hide it |
| 1:39.8 | in his apartment so nobody would ask about it. Well that plan failed. He obviously didn't have |
| 1:45.5 | any horse sense because you can't really sneak a horse into a building no matter how many times |
| 1:50.7 | you've seen Animal House. |
| 1:53.0 | Not only had someone already seen him and called the cops on the crook, he had yet to even make |
| 1:57.8 | it to his own door when the police arrived, still in the stairwell arguing with one of |
| 2:02.3 | his neighbors. |
| 2:03.2 | Way to keep things on the down low, there Wilbur. |
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