BREAKING NEWS – Lakeland, Florida – Donna Byrne may have to pony up after police busted her for riding a horse down a busy highway while intoxicated. Polk County police arrested 53-year-old Donna Byrne and charged her with drunk driving after multiple drivers called 911 to report a woman on a horse was hoofing it down the highway. Polk County Sheriff’s officials said in a news release that someone called 911 about a woman, who appeared confused and possibly in danger. Officers did a sobriety test after they arrived, and said she gave breath samples that registered blood alcohol level of .161 — much higher than Florida’s legal limit of .08. Her attorney said Byrne was pranked after she became intoxicated, when someone wrote the name “Ford” on the horse, and convinced her it was a 2018 Mustang.
