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Hot restaurants and crazy Texas trials top 5 most popular stories this week

Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and there's a lot we all probably missed. But we're looking out for you, kid. Here are the most popular stories from this past week:

1. Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 hot restaurants for June. In her monthly report on where to eat, Teresa Gubbins looks at the Dallas restaurants making headlines, including barbecue hot spot Pecan Lodge, city council favorite Rudy's Chicken and New York import Le Bilboquet.

2. Texas jury acquits man who shot Craigslist escort after she refused sex. In 2009, Ezekiel Gilbert shot 23-year-old Craigslist escort Lenora Ivie Frago when she took his money but refused to have sex with him. A Bexar County jury bought the argument that Gilbert was exercising his legal right in Texas "to use deadly force to recover stolen property during a nighttime theft" and acquitted him on June 5. Frago died about seven months after the shooting.

3. Monsanto pushback: North Texas farmer opts to save his own seed. To combat the spread of genetically engineered crops from agribusiness giant Monsanto, aspiring North Texas farmer Marshall Hinsley is saving his own seeds and throwing his support behind organizations such as Seed Savers Exchange, Botanical Interests and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

4. New York import Le Bilboquet brings French back to Travis Walk. Teresa "Scoop" Gubbins takes a look at the new French restaurant that moved into the space formerly occupied by L'Ancestral in Travis Walk. A few staffers from the original Le Bilboquet, open for 27 years in New York's Upper East Side, have landed in Dallas and and intend to re-create menu favorites such as crab and avocado salad, foie gras terrine, and endive with Roquefort cheese.

5. 10(ish) places, products and activities to make this the best summer ever in Dallas. Our summer hit list is a fool-proof guide for making this the best summer ever in Dallas, from moisture-wicking dress shirts and feel-good flip-flops to beachy patios looking out onto the Dallas skyline.

Sandbar Cantina, on our summer hit list, has a beachy view of downtown Dallas.

Photo by Teresa Gubbins

Sandbar Cantina, on our summer hit list, has a beachy view of downtown Dallas.

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Dallas police horse injures teen fairgoer at State Fair of Texas

Big Tex and State Fair of Texas at sunset

Photo courtesy of the State Fair of Texas

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A police horse that was startled at the State Fair of Texas injured a fairgoer on October 8.

According to the Dallas Police Department, a mounted police officer was "patrolling Big Tex Circle" around 3 pm when the horse got spooked. The officer attempted to regain control of the animal, but ran through a group of people. a teen male ended up getting trampled and was taken to the hospital.

One witness said that the officer was getting a drink at one of the stands while still mounted. Once he got the drink, the horse sped off and patrol officer was thrown from the horse.

"The cop was getting a drink with the horse and then when he left with the drink in his hand the horse started going crazy and going full speed to a crowd of people," the witness said. "The cop fucked up by getting a drink while on a horse and not having full control. [It] was weird he was not dropping the drink when the horse started going crazy. The cop ended up getting stuck on the saddle and fell off. Then the cop came to the scene and I asked him what happened and he said, I don’t know. I’m trying to figure it out.'"

The Dallas Police Department uses draft horses, a larger breed "developed as working horses," but the bigger question is, why does the Dallas Police Department need to use horses at all, when other tools like Segways exist?

"Stop using animals for intimidation factors and this won’t happen," suggested one commenter. "Isn’t your AR-15, taser, sidearm, pepper spray, and club enough to enforce whatever you think you need to at The Fair? Let the animals be animals."

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