So, a man walks into a bank lobby to use the ATM. There, he comes face to face with a horse . (Sounds like the setup for a joke, doesn't it?) Only, it happened in Germany. Ok, that sounds even more like the setup for a joke.
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 6-year-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.
Faithful readers will realize that the horse was up to no good. Our informants* tell us that the horse is one Hans "Trigger" Zwayback, an expert computer hacker for the Animal Uprising™. He was hacking into the bank's account information. The "deposit" was just a distraction so the authorities wouldn't notice the "withdrawals".
* In light of the last bit of information provided by our informants, we'd like to announce that we have a few openings for informants. It's getting far too expense to keep bailing the old ones out of the drunk tank. Or, as we understand it is known in Germany, das Tanken.
