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Hammered Amish Boy Tries to Elude Police in Buggy Chase

Forgive Levi Detweiler. He's an Amish boy from Leon, New York who's presumably been sheltered from some of the basic truths of life -- namely, a horse-drawn buggy is rarely faster than a squad car. Our 17-year-old hero was hammered the other day...

That's when a cop saw him roll through a stop sign. The officer, apparently lacking any real bad guys to pursue, decided to pull Levi over for this grave violation.

But Levi had been dipping into the sauce. And being an Amish kid, he probably doesn't have a lot of practice holding his liquor. So instead of taking the pinch, he decided to outrun the officer in a high-speed buggy chase.

This is generally not a good idea even when you're armed with a car. But we regret to inform you, Young Levi, that successful escapes by horse-drawn carriage have diminished quite starkly in the last 100 years or so.

The chase lasted an unimpressive 3/4 of a mile before Levi crashed the buggy trying to take a sharp turn into a driveway. He then bolted on foot, but was later caught hiding in the area.

Two Amish men helped police free the horse from the crashed buggy. But Levi isn't doing so well. He's been charged with underage possession of alcohol, reckless endangerment, failure to stop at a stop sign, and the ever-so-common crime of "overdriving an animal."

See our last tale from Amish country: Failing to Find Girl, Degenerate Rapes Amish Man
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/07/ … the_da.php