Last Sunday, police responded to a call that a group of Amish youths were drinking on the side of a country road. When the police arrived, one of the buggies fled and crashed into a cop car. Four youths were arrested, but not for drunk buggy driving.

The Kentucky Department of Transportation requres slow-moving Amish buggies to sport an orange, reflective triangle to warn oncoming traffic — just like those on tractors and other farm vehicles. But some Amish believe their religion forbids the displaying of bright colors, and so several of them now sit in a Kentucky…

You have to be pretty stupid, or pretty drunk, to lead the police on a car chase. You have to even drunker, and certainly more Amish, to lead the police on a car-vs.-horse-and-buggy chase.

You have to be pretty stupid, or pretty drunk, to lead the police on a car chase. You have to even drunker, and certainly more Amish, to lead the police on a car-vs.-horse-and-buggy chase.

Elmer Stoltzfoos Fisher of Paradise, Pennsylvania was found asleep at the reins of his Amish buggy, his horse walking down the center line. Elmer was issued a DUI after blowing an impious 0.18BAC. (H/T to Brad) [ABCNews]

Members of Mennonite sects that permit driving but not "graven images" (e.g., driver's license photos) are being told that the no-photo-required religious exemption once offered by Missouri is being revoked as part of the War On Terror, and if they don't like it they can just leave the state. Many of the affected…