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Is riding a horse while drunk legal in Montana?

HELENA, Mont.

A Montana Department of Transportation public-safety video that features a horse picking up a rider at a bar is intended as a metaphor to encourage drinkers to get a ride home.

But it is being taken literally by some in a state well known for its horse culture.

Helena Police Chief Troy McGee says he’s received many calls from residents wanting to know if riding a horse while under the influence is legal. McGee tells the Independent Record newspaper that it is.

Montana law carefully defines a vehicle, and excludes those running under animal power.

The popular 30-second video titled “Sober Friend” shows a savvy horse carefully obeying traffic laws on a nighttime journey through town before stopping in front of a bar to pick up a rider.

Cell phone leads Florida cops to burglary suspect

EDGEWATER, Fla.

Police in central Florida say they arrested a man after finding his dropped cell phone at the scene of a burglary.

Edgewater police knocked on Kevin Jaycob Slagter’s door Wednesday and asked about his cell phone. The 32-year-old said he’d lost the phone. When police told him they’d found it, Slagter confessed breaking into 11 homes.

Police found the phone Jan. 6 while investigating a burglary in this community south of Daytona Beach and traced it to Slagter.

Inside Slagter’s home, police say they found some $30,000 in stolen goods, including electronics, jewelry, coins and computers.

Slagter faces multiple counts of burglary, possession of burglary tools and grand theft.

Woman re-creates da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ with lint

ROSCOMMON, Mich.

A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” by making a replica out of laundry lint.

Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter’s masterpiece.

Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to re-create the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.

Her artwork has caught the eye of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The company plans to put it on display at one of its museums.

Ripley’s says it also has Last Supper replicas made from a grain of rice, a dime and burned toast.

Associated Press