Maniac punches carriage horse, attacks two others in Central Park: driver
One of the drivers blamed the situation on the outgoing mayor
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His name may not be Mongo but a shirtless maniac stole a page from "Blazing Saddles" on Monday — punching, and also kicking, three carriage horses in Central Park before claiming he had a knife, witnesses said.
The decidedly unfunny and unprovoked alleged animal abuse took place shortly before noon just inside the park near West 59th Street and Sixth Avenue and capped a series of recent incidents possibly involving the same man.
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Five drivers had their carriages lined up along Center Drive and were waiting for fares when the man started cursing and allegedly slugged a horse that’s driven by Nurettin Kirbiyik.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kiribyik, 47, said the man had been talking to himself and washing his shirt in the "horse drinking water" when he started talking to the horse, an 11-year-old Gypsy/Morgan cross named "Dennis."
"I look away, I was scared, I didn’t want to look at him," Kiribyik said.
"With his wet shirt wrapped around his hand, he punched Dennis in the face!"
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The man then attacked the next horse in line before moving to a 16-year-old chestnut mare named "Mary," said her driver, Henry Kaya, 28.
"He raised his hand to punch my horse but I pulled my horse back so he could barely touch my horse," Kaya said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kaya and another driver, Mario Angelucci, 44, both said they followed the man as he stormed off, allegedly leading him to claim, "I have a knife."
"We say, ‘We call the police.' He say, ‘Call the police, I don’t care. They ain’t gonna do nothing,'" Angelucci said.
Angelucci blamed the situation on the outgoing mayor.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"De Blasio really turned this place into a mess. He was supposed to clean this up!" he griped.
Angelucci said the man was also allegedly "threatening the horses" on Sunday and a video shot on Wednesday shows him cursing and talking to himself before he spit at a white carriage horse and threw a punch in the air toward its face, causing it to flinch.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kaya said he chased the man down following Monday’s incident and shot video with his cellphone that shows him angrily confronting the man from a distance.
"Why are you hitting my horse? It’s a poor animal!" Kaya yelled.
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