To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

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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.

you DO need to 'well-rot' the manure before using? What does this mean, you just make a pile and leave it?

Pretty much. You can add other leafy matter -- grass, straw, leaves. Lovely stuff.

Chicken manure is even better.

Usualsuspect - I've shovelled horse shit for years, as have my kids, been around horses all my life and never met anyone who has contracted tetanus through horse shit. This thread is bizarre.

No jabs for me - worked with horses in some form or another for most of my life.

And I use it on the garden all the time, the allotment holders use it, and the farmers use pig poo. Never heard of any health risks (unless the horse has certain drugs put into it via vet).

Far better a bit of pig poo or horse poo than the human poo the farmers use round here for their crops - now that does stink.

Believe me, from a health point of view, shit is not just shit!!!!!!!!!

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for all the people on this thread who object to horse shit.

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for all the people on this thread who object to horse shit.

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for all the people on this thread who object to horse shit.

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for all the people on this thread who object to horse shit.

If i were that rider and you followed me, i'd have you arrested.

Really can't be horse arsed to read thread. Have laughed myself horse at ops stupidity. Its neigh right to be so daft.

Almost Served you right if the animal bucked and got you shouting at it like that. Silly silly thing to do. They see better behind than out front.

Does anyone else remember a thread about an MNer or her husband who used to go jogging and sometimes ended up pooing in a hedge?

Arrested?

What a bonkers thread.

No need to feel sorry for me, you can keep your horseshit, the smell of it makes me heave.

Oh Tilly. I can't remember the thread but my friend (who is part of a long distance running thread) tells me it is common to stop and poo on the side of the road, in hedges (or basically anywhere) whilst on long runs as the body demands it.

Now that I wouldn't like to see!!!

Not thread - club, obviously!!!!

Would it be ok if they were vegans though?

All I can think is either the horses were being ridden on the footpath, or the children walk home from school in the road. Can't get my head round it..

Hahahahaha can't believe you are getting so worked up over horse shit!

You'd have me arrested for shouting "excuse me, will you pick up that horse poo"?

Right!

I have never had a tetnus jab and don't know anyone else to have had one from years of working with horses. When I ride out and have to use a path and my horse shits on it I would dismount and kick it into a road. But I certainly wouldn't pick up if my horse shat on the road! As for running behind a horse, as other posters have said, is incredibly silly, if it had spooked and thrown it's rider you could be held to that. In fact, an old friend of mine found herself in a similar scenario when she was younger, some idiot ran after her horse shouting, horse spooked and reared, she came off and the horse reared again, came down on her and she now has a lovely scar where her liver had to be operated on for trauma.

I don't think the horse understands what you're saying (it's the shouting that's the dangerous bit - not the words.....)

I ameoukd be fucked off too. Not a lot they can do though!

Where I live in, there are tonnes of police on horses. they come up our road about 3 times a week. Road is literally full of shit!

usual I haven't ever actually considered smelling human excrement to compare the scents, and I'm certainly not going to google it! But it is frequently suggested in things like Cosmopolitan that you should ask your lover to abstain from meat in order to improve the taste of his semen.