Save a shopping cart, ride a… horse?
A Louisiana Walmart – specifically the super store in the city of Baker – became the backdrop for a viral video this past week. If you are active on TikTok, it’s likely that the algorithm fed you the clip of four individuals riding their trusty steeds into and around the Walmart. It racked up over 3 million views before it was eventually deleted from the original account.
But as you already know, the internet is forever. The clip has been posted in many other places, and all of the footage got the attention of the Baker Police Department. They swiftly jumped into action to try and identify the younger men on horseback, because their actions earned them charges of disturbing the peace by violent and tumultuous manner and unlawful posting of criminal activity for notoriety and publicity.
Because they actively videoed themselves riding around the Walmart. Nothing like collecting incriminating evidence on yourself. You can see the group, who calls themselves the “Cutthroat Cowboys,” riding into the Louisiana Walmart below:
@wbrz_newsBaker police seeking to ID horse riders who paraded through Walmart
I’m usually not surprised when I see outlandish things inside of Walmart, but seeing a group on horseback riding down the aisles is certainly a sight to see.
Mason Webb was eventually identified as one of the young men on horseback, and the 18-year-old was arrested along with a juvenile that was also seen in the video.
A local news station in Louisiana went to the police station to ask Webb questions, and the teenager showed no remorse for galloping a horse into the big-box store:
“It was fun. We went famous, that’s all. We didn’t want to hurt anybody or nothing. We just went in there. We always ride to Baker and we just wanted to do it that day. (We’re the) Cutthroat Cowboys baby.”
To be frank, it’s rather concerning seeing the younger generation “doing things for the Gram,” and not feeling as though they did anything wrong. It’s almost like views on a social media video now justify doing bad things (or in this case, breaking the law) in the minds of modern day teenagers.
That being said, I will give Mason Webb some credit for trying to spin the story into his favor. In the era of ESAs (emotional support animals), we’ve seen plenty of wild examples of people bringing along absurd animals wherever they want and saying that they are there to provide emotional support. The wildest one I ever saw was a woman bringing an emotional support peacock onto an airplane.
The Louisiana teenager seems to adopting that as his excuse, because he told the news station this:
“That’s my emotional support animal. That’s it.”
Not sure if that would hold up in the court of law, but I guess we’ll see how that works out for him. As for everyone else, make sure you tie up your horse outside of the Walmart before you enter…
