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Bank Saddled With Horse-Sized Cleanup Job

Pointing out stories you may have missed. An early-morning bank customer in Germany, got a bit of a shock when he found a horse in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. It seems the horse's owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer, police said.

The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit the hay in the bank on his way home. "It was late, it was already dark and cold," he was quoted as saying.

Confronted with the lack of a hitching-post, he brought the sixar-old horse, named Sammy, in along with him. When a customer came across the horse and sleeping rider in the bank at 4:15 a.m. Monday, he called police, who then came and woke the owner up and sent him on his way.
No charges were filed, but there might be some cleanup needed: Apparently Sammy made his own after-hours deposit on the carpet.

News source: CNN.com.