You can't make this stuff up.

Here's an excerpt:

3 Amish men charged in buggy race, crash



By ANTHONY CARDINALE
News Staff Reporter
5/27/2002


Three young Amish men have been charged in a late-night buggy race in the Town of Leon in which a collision with a fourth buggy left a horse dead.

The charges were announced Sunday after a weeklong investigation of the May 19 accident by the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Department. Deputies were called to the scene after a dead horse and smashed buggy were found in a ditch on Riga Road last Monday.