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To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

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BigRedBall · 04/03/2014 13:40

Have namechanged for privacy.

I am so angry right now. We sometimes (twice a year at most) get horses going past our house as we live around the corner from a small private farm. We live in a city, so it's quite a novelty when we hear the sound of "clip clop" outside.

About 20 mins ago we heard the sound of clip clop and I took DS to the front room to look outside. As we watched the horses go by one stopped and kind of turned around and SHITTED RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DRIVEWAY. Not a small bit...a big arse full of horse shit. And the rider laughed at her other horsey friends.

As soon as I saw it I put my shoes on and ran outside and the rider was going on her way again. Her friends had gone up ahead. I ran up to her shouting "excuse me" and she wouldn't stop. I shouted at her if she was going to clear up the horse poo outside my house and she replied "stop shouting at me" without even turning around to see I had a toddler in my arms.

I couldn't go any further because I was holding my DS and had left a sleeping baby inside.

Now I have a pile of horse shit outside my house, and I want to actually KILL this horse rider. Our road is a school route and I don't want children stepping in it but why the fuck should I have to clear it up? I am so pissed off. I want to get into the car and hunt down the fuckers and pull them back by their ears and tell them to clean it.

OP posts:
NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 15:14

Grin i love the city too natwebb and do NOT have a 'horsey trinket necklace' OR a 'stinky wax jacket'

henrysmate · 04/03/2014 15:14

but jobbies actual tears

Dawndonnaagain · 04/03/2014 15:15

SHITTED RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DRIVEWAY.
So tempted to use it as a name change!

KonkeyDong · 04/03/2014 15:18

It certainly was a butt hobbies that said horse produced. Grin

KonkeyDong · 04/03/2014 15:18

^butt jobbie! Epic phone fail.

DoJo · 04/03/2014 15:18

I get your annoyance, but I don't think you handled it very well. Whilst I can appreciate that it's unappealing to be confronted with a pile of shit outside your door, there really is no practical way for horse riders to clean up horse shit. Dismounting, producing a shovel (from somewhere) and leaving your horse unattended whilst finding somewhere to deposit the poo is far more dangerous than some horse poo on the road.
I am no fan of horses or their riders (have a lot of entitled ones round here who seem to think that they have the right to control traffic as they see fit!) but I really think that they were in the right in this situation, and you were very much in the wrong to try and confront them. Horses are often unpredictable and can be extremely dangerous when spooked, so shouting at them whilst holding your toddler was irresponsible.

Cravey · 04/03/2014 15:19

So you shouted at a rider, on a horse, in the city. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is ? Also can you explain why on earth the fact hat you had a kid in your arms makes a difference. It was you who was shouting and possibly upsetting your child not the rider. Yabu and slightly odd.

Greyhorses · 04/03/2014 15:20

This thread is hilarious.

OP I think you need to move back to the city before you endanger yourself or someone else again!
You would hate where I live when about 20 horses a day pass my drive...
Also if you had shouted at my horse like that you would be lucky he didn't mow you down for it!

squoosh · 04/03/2014 15:21

People are still very deferential to horse owners, lots of virtual forelock tugging.

NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 15:22

well i lived in the West End of London and had the Kings Troop clattering past on exercise at about 7 am every morning.
I wonder if any of them 'shitted' on the way past....

CorusKate · 04/03/2014 15:22

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NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 15:23

i don't agree squoosh, not at all- if anything it is the opposite

saintlyjimjams · 04/03/2014 15:23

At least it wasn't a ferret - their shit stinks.

Horse poo doesn't really smell of much - it's mainly hay at this time of year surely.

Running up behind someone on a horse shouting isn't the most sensible thing to do - tbh. You're lucky - some horsey types would have had a right go at you - (and some horses could have spooked - you'd be worrying about more than horse shit then)

saintlyjimjams · 04/03/2014 15:27

anyone suggesting they carry a bag and shovel whilst on a hack has likely never ridden a horse

I'm actually crying with laughter now - can this be moved to mumsnet classics?

SleepPleaseSleep · 04/03/2014 15:27

I get fed up of horse manure too. Strange for something so 'desirable' not to get snapped up very often. As a gardener I wouldn't just pick up stuff off the floor, you don't know what chemicals are in it and there was a scare about that just a couple of years ago. Riders attitude obviously annoyed you and I can't blame you.

Are horse nappies possible with a single horse? They use them in Bruges, but with carriages. Clean town.

CorusKate · 04/03/2014 15:27

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WillieWaggledagger · 04/03/2014 15:28

even the most bomb-proof horse could have its moment. it's an animal, it can't be entirely predictable, and it is big and heavy and fast and you have to bear that in mind when you are near them. so keep the shouting and running up behind them to a minimum given that that is within your control

HuntingforBunting · 04/03/2014 15:29

I don't think the op should be being flamed for not knowing about horse poo being safe or about horse etiquette etc. Why should she? But op, seriously, it's not dangerous and it is good fertilizer. Hope your not too sleep deprived with the baby «offers cup of tea and sympathy »

FrankelInFoal · 04/03/2014 15:30

CorusKate as has already been explained even the best trained horse can be frightened by a sudden noise/someone shouting. They are sentient beings, not robots, and their natural instinct when encountering a (what they perceive to be) dangerous situation, is to run and run fast.

NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 15:31

well anyway coruskate you are right - a horse being ridden out would not be that sensitive surely....

BooseyAndHawkes · 04/03/2014 15:32

Have you ever tried to pick up a pile of horse poo in a dog-poo bag, OP? The rider would need to go round toting bin-bags.

YABU, and ought to stop shouting at people.

NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 15:32

OP what you should have done of course was run up the side of the horse shouting and waving a plastic bag for the errant owner to place the poo in Grin

iklboo · 04/03/2014 15:33

Trained police / military horses can still be spooked by something they're not expecting.

CorusKate · 04/03/2014 15:34

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saintlyjimjams · 04/03/2014 15:36

I ride relatively bomb proof horses - nothing too fresh anyway. My lesson used to be followed by an older rider on her own horse. She had a habit of popping up next to the gate in a way that would send whichever ruddy horse I was on scooting across the arena in shock. I used to watch out for her ten minutes before the lesson end for my weekly practice of staying on during a spook.

Any horse can spook - they're prey animals, you can't entirely override thousands of years of evolution.