Horse riders should pick up their poo!!

Or (Heath Robinson) there could be high powered air hose (ignoring the fact the horse would bolt) so as it is ejected it is sprayed into neighbouring fields. Can see the flaws. No pooing where front gardens/cars/innocent pedestrians might be targeted.
Back to the drawing board

A champagne cork up attached to the riders hat's with a piece of knicker elastic and inserted up the horse's bum. When the horse 'pops the cork' it will shoot out and ricochet back 'donking' the rider in the back of the helmet, and so alerting them to the 'event' whereupon they can alight and scoop up the 'stuff'.

What do you think? Could work, couldn't it ?

I was really pleased that the parish council where I keep my horse shutdown the complaints about horse poo on the road straight away (I’m assuming the complainers were new to the area). They were told that the village was historically a horse village with racing stables etc and always will be and as far as the parish council was concerned, there is no issue with horse poo

This read is one of my favourite things ever. It’s just so insane. I’m 95% sure OP is having everyone on but the 5% chance she’s really just this mental is keeping it spicy and I’m loving it. I didn’t know this was a thing, people actually complaining about horse poo.

Oh you youngsters! It probably still is but, back in the 60's-80's, our road was on a short route between a riding stable and the South Downs. It was a concrete road, so you could hear the ponies coming.

So many keen gardeners were on "pony alert"; ready to grab a wheelbarrow and spade.

Yes it needed to season for a year (probably not the right word), but it wasn't the norm to get bags of compost/peat.

Yes, it wasn't the most exciting place to grow up.

Dogs are carnivores , horses are herbivores. It's basically grass 🙄.. also it's not possible to get off clear it up carry it home and dispose of it ! You obviously dont know anything about animals !

Well, dear reader. I have had an accident involving horse shit.

I was rambling in the country when l realised we might have gone orf course. So l got my phone out to check a map.

Walked through a big pile of it whilst looking at said map.

DH said it was the best bit.

I would settle for them not horse riding down lanes they are not meant to.

I would rather a child ran through horse shit than dog shit. Because it's not dangerous and thousands of children spend their lives grubbing about in horse muck, I know I did
My stomach is cast iron will happily pick up horse muck with bare hands if I had to but no way would I do that with dog/cat
I'm pretty sure a child could fall face first in it without the slightest issue

So why can’t horse riders apply the same to their riding?
I can’t really follow the logic that the law has to change after a hundred years of motorcyclists using roads, so that twats can ride horses like twats instead of cleaning up their shit

That sounds a lot better lol!

Why do people have to call other people do hobbies they don't like & will never meet horrible names?

We all have to use the roads, learn to rub along instead of turning on one another.

@countingto10

TBF motorcyclists are one of the most considerate road users as far as horse riders are concerned IMO, them and lorry drivers. They are a vulnerable road user and appreciate that riders are in the same position. In my experience, young women seem to be the worst, distracted by their phones

I don't really think the problem here is horses, or actually horse poo though, I think it's the perception people have of horse owners in general. I don't really believe that anyone really wants to know the actual reasons behind horses not being able to be 'toilet' trained, or are interested in coming to a suitable solution for places where there's issues with wheelchairs, motorised scooters or prams, because although I can see it could be an issue somewhere, I don't think the issue is that great (say in the region of cars parking across pavements and footpaths) that a solution couldn't be found for individual issues where this occurs frequently. That's of course if you know, people want to actually solve the problem rather than call horse riders posh twats and tell us that we don't want to without even trying.
I also don't think anyone's really that interested in how road riding affects horses joints, tendons and ligaments, or why people need to ride on the road to access bridleways, or the reasons that you can't just hop across any farmers field you fancy. Or that anyone thinks, with the amount of crap that is pumped onto our coast lines, that a few piles of horse shit are the biggest problem faced by children playing on the beach.

Horse threads always go the same way, road tax, posh, entitled, snobs, rich, ignorant etc etc etc. It's more about the stereotype than the actual issues.

Horse riders could be obliged to be tailed by a cyclist or pedestrian who could shout to them to stop when the horse craps over the road. A similar thing to car drivers having to be preceded by a man with a red flag on foot, but in reverse

This must be a joke?

TBF motorcyclists are one of the most considerate road users as far as horse riders are concerned IMO, them and lorry drivers. They are a vulnerable road user and appreciate that riders are in the same position. In my experience, young women seem to be the worst, distracted by their phones

I grew up rurally and when I was learning to drive, the cardinal rule was always ‘never go so fast that you couldn’t stop if you encountered a cow, tractor or collapsed wall around the next corner’

It’s advice I’ve stuck by when riding bikes as well, and it’s served me pretty well - the times I’ve ever encountered an unexpected hazard, I’ve stopped in time and never had an accident

So why can’t motorbike riders apply the same to their driving?
I can’t really follow the logic that the law has to change after hundreds (thousands?) of years of horses using roads, so that twats can ride motorbikes like twats instead of slowing down

[quote Instagram]www.weeklygripe.co.uk/horse-manure-on-the-road-is-dangerous[/quote]
😂

This article has no data to back up the claims, just someone who CYCLES claiming that it's dangerous to cars.

Oh god, it's the 'kids dying from eating dairy lea whilst hanging upside down' thread all over again 😂

No tractor driver I have ever encountered has cleaned up the mud they drop. What about sheep poo? Cow poo? There are lots of farm animals moved by herding along road around here as well as the ones that escape and hide out in hedges for days on end! Once the farmer has herded their cows across the road do you want them to go back and scoop some poop??

Not this again.😒
Yabvu.
Ask for some common sense for Christmas.

To be honest I'd never considered this a problem before but actually there are simple solutions:

1. Horse nappies
2. Rider carries a backpack and a lightweight folding shovel. When the horse does a shit, the rider can collect it and, if there isn't anywhere suitable to dispose of it, take it home in their backpack.
3. Horse riders could be obliged to be tailed by a cyclist or pedestrian who could shout to them to stop when the horse craps over the road. A similar thing to car drivers having to be preceded by a man with a red flag on foot, but in reverse.

This thread has really changed my opinion of horse riders

Kendodd you said in an earlier post that all horse riders were posh so as far as you’re concerned they’re the enemy. So how can they sink any lower in your estimation?
Do you really care about horse poo or did you spot an opportunity to have a go at ‘posh’ people?