A reportedly intoxicated man recently trotted a horse into the lobby at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihu‘e with a single mission in mind — cheering up his ailing family member, an official said yesterday.

The unidentified dude picked up the phone and told the operator, “I’m coming up to see a relative,” Wilcox Hospital spokeswoman Lani Yukimura said.

The “well-intended” individual and his steed then took an elevator up three levels to a nursing floor, she said, where security greeted them.

The patient was brought out to see the stallion, Yukimura said, but told his allegedly intoxicated relative, “That’s not my horse.”

Security then “calmly and peaceably” got the rider back on his bronco and out of the hospital, Yukimura said, with “just a few scuff marks.”

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(Source: Nathan Eagle, Kauai Garden Island News)