Talk about perhaps watching an old movie classic one too many times. Cops in Canada say 28-year-old Darrell Mowat (pictured above) last week went full-out Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather. But let's not put the cart before the horse...In the film, Brando's mob boss Corleone character sends consigliere Tom Hagen to try to convince pedophile movie producer Jack Woltz to cast Corleone's Godson, Johnny Fontane, in one of Woltz's upcoming pictures. After calling Hagen a "Kraut Mick" and refusing The Don's request, Woltz wakes up the next morning to find the head of his prized racehorse Khartoum in Woltz's bed. The Don had just made Woltz an offer he couldn't refuse, and Fontane got the part in the picture.
Now, almost 70 years later, life imitates art up Canada way, as this buckaroo Mowat allegedly hoofed it down to a farm near Niagara Falls and chopped off a horse's head faster than one could say, "Tell your boss that I ain't no band leader."
And this buck-bashing broncobuster Mowat allegedly couldn't hold his horses after his little horse homicide, as he was apparently champing at the ol' bit to get that damn horse's head into town! Spurred on by some unknown motivation, this unhinged horseman allegedly drove the head to an acquaintance's home there in town.At the home, this suspected mustang murderin' Mowat allegedly felt like feeling his wild oats even farther, as cops say he deposited the horse head in the bed of the acquaintance's pickup truck right out there in the driveway!
But unlike the old movie, cops say they don't think Mowat meant the gelding gesture as a Don Vito-like threat, but instead they think it was probably just a "prank." That's since, after all, nothing says practical joke quite like axing off a domesticated animal's melon and tossing it in a man's ride!
Now Mowat may have to exchange his horse corral for the Bullpen, since he's facing a whole herd of criminal charges that include breaking, entering and animal cruelty. And if he was looking for this alleged stunt to help him land his own part in a picture, I think he hacked the wrong horse.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/southern-ontario/article776823.ece
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/03/23/severed-horse-head-is-a-bizarre-prank
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