Police Horse Stampede In Mexico City! Watch As 30 Runaway Horses Stomp Over A Dozen Cars [VIDEO]

30 horses brought out by Mexico City police to control the hundreds of striking teachers who continued to crowd the plaza around Mexico's national Chamber of Deputies escaped on Sunday after being spooked by engine noise from passing traffic. The stampeding horses proceeded down the Circuito Bicentario, one of the city's main thoroughfares, trampling 11 cars and injuring one taxi driver after smashing the back window of his vehicle. The driver told Excelsior that he had narrowly escaped being killing after one of the horses trampled his car. "I just felt a strong blow, afterward a lot of fear and I just lay back so nothing would happen to me," he said. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch video of the runaway horses as they gallop down the Circuito.

"It was like Jumanji!" exclaimed Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, the city's chief of police, in a press conference. "We had 30 horses being utilized on Sunday. What stirred them up was that one horse got scared by the noise of the vehicles, so it took off, but as horses have the herd instinct and it seemed like that one was the leader, they ran off after him. Since they still didn't have anyone saddled in them, they went off running into different parts of the city." He added that the city's government will pay for any damages caused by the stampede. "We've recovered all of the horses. We will give them the adequate treatment with the help of the animal brigade and we will pay the damages done to 11 vehicles."

An eyewitness told local news crews, "Oh, the horses got away from the police squad and they smashed one of my mirrors. They're injured, they're hurt. It's for this kind of thing that the mounted police shouldn't exist in Mexico." He added, "The poor horses broke my mirror, they hit my car, it was terrible...one of them is going around hurt." A preliminary report by the crew which recovered the horses said that the animals hadn't been secured to the trailer which had been carrying them; a later report confirmed that the stampede had indeed been caused by a single horse which had become spooked. Local news reported that 15 of the 30 horses will have be put down because of injuries sustained during the incident.

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