A German woman caught by police transporting a Shetland pony in the back seat of her pink car refused to pay a €35 ($41) fine and now faces administrative proceedings.

Earlier this month, police in Alsdorf, near Aachen, Germany, pulled over a suspicious pink car after seeing something strange through the rear window. Upon popping open the trunk, police officers came face to face with a cute Shetland pony sitting on a small carpet rolled over the reclined rear seats with a bucket of feed in front of it. The animal seemed quite calm, suggesting that this wasn’t its first ride-along, and the woman didn’t seem to acknowledge that there was anything wrong. She had simply tied the small horse with a tope to a metal eyelet, which she seemed to believe was safe enough. Not even the policeman’s explanation that, in case of a traffic accident at a speed of 50 km/h, a 150-kilogram pony would be hurled forward with a force of 7.5 tonnes changed her mind.