Runaway Horse in Crowded Paris

Garilbaldi, a 15-year-old military horse, threw his rider this week while on duty in Paris and ran through the icy streets, slipping at least once.

It played like a scene from a movie, but with real danger for the horse, for motorists and for those trying to corral it. The police officer in the video eventually was able to hang out of the squad car and bring Garilbaldi to a halt.

"There was no way of stopping him - he wanted to get to his stables," a military official told a reporter.

So he galloped along the Seine and past the Louvre before police could catch up to him and load him into a van. A military officer reported Garilbaldi suffered only minor cuts.