https://wgna.com/deputies-pull-over-drunk-men-in-pimped-out-amish-buggy/

https://www.news10.com/news/deputies-pull-over-amish-buggy-with-stereo-system/

Deputies said they pulled over an Amish buggy complete with alcohol and a stereo system early Sunday morning.

Just before 1 a.m., Trumbull County sheriff’s deputies said they saw two Amish men drinking alcohol while riding on the back of a horse and buggy.

The deputies said there was a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra on top of the buggy.

They pulled the buggy over at Donley and Mahan Parker Roads in North Bloomfield, Ohio.

Deputies said the people riding in it ran out into the trees while the horse continued down the road.

There were several open bottles of alcohol in the buggy, as well as a radio sound system, deputies said.

The buggy was towed and deputies found someone to take care of the horse until the owner comes forward.

"Sheriff’s deputies are closing in on suspects from a troublemaking Amish splinter group in Ohio who have broken into homes and cut off the beards and hair of other Amish men.

Authorities tell HuffPost Crime they are planning to arrest at least four men who are followers of Sam Mullet, a bishop who Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said has clashed with other Amish leaders for years.


At least three attacks in rural eastern Ohio since September prompted the victims — all Amish — to look outside their traditionalist community to seek help from local police.

In one nighttime raid in Carroll County, a group of men knocked on a door, pulled a man out by the beard and tried to chop off his facial hair, the Wheeling Intelligencer reports.

In Holmes County, a posse allegedly broke into a home, lopping off the hair and whiskers of everyone inside, including a 13-year-old-girl and 74-year-old man. There were no serious injuries, according to police.

“Who knows where it’s going to end?” Abdalla said to The Huffington Post. “That’s why we have to make these arrests.”

Holmes and Carroll County sheriff’s officials didn’t return calls from HuffPost.

The unnamed suspects could be charged with kidnapping, assault, burglary and trespassing, the sheriff said.

Police say Mullet is not a suspect, but he is said to exert influence over the approximately 18 families that live near him in the village of Bergholz. The attackers in Carroll County allegedly identified themselves as the “Bergholz clan” to the victims. One person that deputies plan to arrest is a son of Mullet, Abadalla said.

The victims of the tonsorial onslaughts include two Amish bishops. Abdalla believes that Mullet is a ringleader who ordered his followers to launch the attacks against his potential rivals.

“Those people don’t make a move out there without his orders,” Abdalla told The Huffington Post. “He calls all the shots.”

The Amish community in Jefferson County is small, numbering around 100 individuals, Abdalla said, but is much larger in the neighboring areas.

In Trumbull County last month, men and women allegedly invaded a home and returned to Jefferson County with the freshly cut locks as proof that they carried out Mullet’s commands, according to The Intelligencer. The victims said their sons and son-in-law were the culprits, but refused to file a complaint, the Associated Press reports."

Maybe we should ban all scissors now or maybe not? Scissors don't cut off Aumish beards, other pissed-off Aumish people cut off Aumish beards. Ban the scissors or limit them so that legal scissors are capable of only cutting one strand of hair at a time. Problem solved. Maybe we should require a license to carry scissors. Surely, that would have prevented these Aumish people from cutting-off the beards of their fellow believers (least they violate the terms of their scissor license). Or... we could offer a scissor buy-back program. That would have prevented those beards from being cut off.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2019 09:02AM by azsteve.