To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

[BigRedBall]

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.

Says a lot that you felt the need to name change for this. Clearly YABU and knew you were otherwise you wouldn't have needed to.

I expect t you really scared your toddler with all that shouting op.

here have a grip! it's just fertiliser.

I really would expect the average being who had made it to adulthood to have more sense tbh coruskate.

if you ran up to my horse rustling a plastic bag for his poo he would be your best friend thinking it was food - so not only would you have horse poo outside your house but also horse snot and slobber on your shoulder as he snuggled up for a treat! No horse trinket necklaces in this house, but we do have a slight eau de cheval thing going on at times.

whilst the rider is pooperscooping, the horse is eating the roses and anything else it fancies out of your garden.

I was on a bus in Wanstead, east London, which is one of those places where people are entitled to graze cattle on the common - or Wanstead Flats, as it's called. It's a very nice suburb.

These cows had got bored with the grass and had gone walkabout. The traffic was at a standstill while they were stupidly bumping into cars and damaging them. They didn't have numberplates and I bet they had no insurance either. The bastards

A poor woman was trying to drive out a cow that had bulldozed her through her fence and was eating her roses. Looking back it was lucky it was so benign because arguing with a cow was quite a risky thing to do.

I bet it left a steaming cow pat to help the roses recover though.

I am pretty sure I have seen horses with poo bags/panniers hanging off the back, maybe in New York on the horses that pull carriages around Central Park for the tourists? Anyway they do exist...

Frankel I know where you live . I'm very nearby and sometimes end up stopping at horse crossings if I have to cut through town to dodge the latest disaster on the A14. Lots and lots of poo.

And you are right - I used to ride and there is no such thing as a completely bomb-proof horse.

Haha desertmum! Mine would have a nervous breakdown...combine harvester, rattling HGV, motorbikes, fine. Rustling bag...goggle eyed with terror. The monsters it might contain!

pointy

Limited, the cows have gone now :( Foot & Mouth put and end to them being grazed there, and the owner never came back again. I miss them.

Well I didn't know I could've scared the shit out of the horse (pardon the pun). And if horses are such delicate animals then maybe it's not a good idea to ride them around behind a built up area where a lot cars drive through for a short cut to the main road.

We're near a hospital too so loads of ambulances and air ambulance can be heard throughout the day. What do the horses do then?

Besides, horse piss is FAR worse than poo smell wise. Mucking out makes my eyes water sometimes...it's very tangy! I find poo is quite odourless compared to that.

this is funny

You probably did your toddler more damage by acting like an unhinged lunatic while carrying him than if he'd stepped in horse poo tbh. You left your baby alone in the house to do this. I am presuming you are sleep deprived and not completely in control.

This thread makes me very glad I live rurally.

Just be grateful you don't live my life and have to shovel the shit of 220 cows & 9 horses on a daily basis. If you did, you'd really understand the meaning of "arse full of shit".

You're over reacting just a tad.

Limited, I used to work in a school where every morning we'd go into the playground and check for left-over glue bags, needles, addicts and other random items. 7.30am, rain or shine we were sweeping.

Then I moved to a little rural school and thought my early starts removing undesirables were in the past. Alas...cows.
At least once a week, bored and seeking new pastures, they'd amble onto the field. Munching and pooing.

YABU. Completely bizarre overreaction.

Sorry.

The same way you can fearlessly walk past traffic daily bigredball, I bet you would jump if someone ran up behind you unexpectedly shrieking like a banshee.

BigRedBall - for most horses it's unpredictability that's a issue. Yes you can work on getting a horse used to traffic (& sirens). But a woman shouting and waving, running up behind them carrying a toddler - (so they look the 'wrong' shape) - hm bit harder to get a horse used to that - probably the one and only time they're going to come across that in their life.

I think OP's being given an unnecessarily hard time here. YWBU to shout at a horse. YWNBU to be unthrilled to find a pile of shit left in front of your house. Others may not find it offensive, and may indeed be happy to eat it and pick it up with their bare hands [this is one of the most disturbing threads I've read frankly), but at the end of the day it's still a pile of unwanted shit that the OP has been left to deal with. And if any other 'vehicle' left piles of detritus behind it like that, then yes, the owner would be asked to deal with it. I'm not very convinced about poo not being disgusting unless it's come out of carnivores either. My vegetarian DCs poo is as gross as anybody elses. And quite a few people have their dogs on a vegetarian diet - are they then exempt from picking up their dog's shit?

I absolutely agree with you OP.

Shit is shit.

Best laugh I've had in ages.

How exactly would you have the rider stop the horse from having a shit?

What would you expect the rider to then do with the product?

You need to chill out. Put some manure on your garden (and no its not like dog poo because horses eat plants) or just let the rain wash it away.

Shouting at a horse just makes you sound slightly deranged.

Coruskate if every horse rider worried about every small thing that could go wrong nobody would ever get on a horse again.

Chasing someone down the street holding a toddler while shouting at someone riding a prey animal weighing 500kgs= stupidity and dangerous.

Yes, you can train horses but at the end of the day horses are prey animals. They will and do bolt and a horse in a true panic will literally gallop at anything in its path. Hence I would not be shouting at it whilst holding a small child. My horse proberbly would spook at this. I could hold him back but if the shouting continued he would jump all over until the noise was gone, I couldn't stop to talk to the OP as my horse is too silly. No amount of desensitisation would stop this as it's in his nature, however for this reason I avoid roads where possible and I only really ride this particular horse on private land.

Luckily 99% of the public are lovely and will do anything to avoid spooking a horse, usually people from the country who have ridden themselves though!

It's just a case of using common sense. I wouldn't even chase someone walking a dog down the street incase it panicked never mind something as easily spooked as a horse!

YABVU

It wasn't even on your driveway. It was on the road. Cars will run over it, rain will wash it away.

What a mountain out of a molehill.