High school student Austin McGill rode a horse into his school in Gloucester, Virginia, as a senior prank on November 5. Sadly for him, the school seems to have failed to see the funny side, with McGill telling a local news outlet he was suspended.

“I was talking to my friends and I was like ‘you know, I should ride my horse into school’ and they were just like ‘that would be hilarious,’” McGill told 13News Now.

This footage, posted on Facebook by fellow student Daniel Owens Jr, shows McGill entering Gloucester High School on the back of Sonny, his mom’s 27-year-old horse, wearing a cowboy hat and a mask. Credit: Daniel Owens Jr via Storyful