I belong to an organisation that recreates the battles of the English Civil Wars of 1642–1660. At one of the weekends in St Albans the founder of the organisation, the Brigadier, was riding his horse from pub to pub in full seventeenth-century battle gear and accepting drinks from members. After about two hours of this he was approached by the police and told to dismount, as he was drunk.
After about fifteen minutes he mounted up and rode off to the pubs again. A police car pulled up and the police arrested the ‘Brig’ and charged him with being drunk in charge of a horse. At court he was convicted and fined.