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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:

SometimesLonely · 04/03/2014 18:55

Those were the days when we children waited for the milkman with our shovels and buckets .......

whattoWHO · 04/03/2014 19:05

This thread puts me in mind of the final ever scene of This Life (yes, I'm that old).

You know, the one at Millie and Egg's wedding and Millie has a fight with the blond one. Then warren comes in, surveys the madness and says something like "fantastic".

This thread reminds me of that.

ohmeohmyforgotlogin · 04/03/2014 19:12

YANBU used to get enraged by horses shitting all over the bike path. Ride through it then bike in the house. Inconsiderate bastards go ride in the fields.

Cockadoodledooo · 04/03/2014 19:14

When ds2 was just walking, he used to toddle on the green outside ds1's school picking up individual bits of pony poo and saying 'ball' with a massive pleased-with-himself grin on his face.

usualsuspect33 · 04/03/2014 19:15

I loved that final scene.

Normanpriceisnotarolemodel · 04/03/2014 19:19

What was the consensus about the marathon runner who pooed behind a hedge btw? not that I am one or anything

Alisvolatpropiis · 04/03/2014 19:27

I can understand why you were a bit put out but shouting around horses is incredibly stupid.

desertmum · 04/03/2014 19:38

SDTG - yep my dog loves to eat horse poo and the hoof trimmings when the farrier visits are a real treat - he also eats cat poo, but NEVER EVER dog poo.

maddy68 · 04/03/2014 19:39

Horse shit is just recycled grass
A rider cannot get off a horse to clean it up, what would they do with it? Who would stop the horse from bolting!

You are being rediculous Just drive over it. It'll disappear In a day. It literally disintegrates

fullerlonger · 04/03/2014 19:40

WhattoWHO 'outstanding'

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/03/2014 19:41

Mine eats all sorts of poo - sheep, dog, cow, horse - she has an undemanding palate! I don't think she has eaten cat poo, but it couldn't swear to that.

She is particularly fond of poos that have frozen - poopsicles, as t'were.

Frankly it is just as well she is cute, lovable and loving.

fullerlonger · 04/03/2014 19:45

When my dog was very young he ate so much horse poo he was sick
Then he ate the sick

bigjobs · 04/03/2014 19:45

I'm glad you weren't a guest at my wedding op as my bridesmaid was an elephant. Half-way through the ceremony she did a huge poo and then a big wee on top - you would have been horrified by her manners!

I was fine about it as I realised that she was an animal and couldn't exactly say 'excuse me' before plopping.

Having been kicked by a horse once and left with horseshoe shaped bruises on my chest I would say that you were very lucky not to have spooked the horse and caused injury to anyone.

TheDevilDrives · 04/03/2014 19:45

BigRedBall, you're very foolish to shout at a rider when they're upon a horse. Had he bolted or reared people could have been seriously hurt.

Other than that, you're just odd. Very odd. Horses shit. It's what they do. Get over it, then get over yourself.

TheDevilDrives · 04/03/2014 19:47

"my bridesmaid was an elephant"

Close the thread MN. There's no point in continuing. bigjobs wins. No-one can top that.

StickEmUpBigStyle · 04/03/2014 19:50

usual i never used to see it before.
I do now.

Horse poo however organic is SHIT der

Misspixietrix · 04/03/2014 19:51

FWIW I was actually being sarcastic about the pooperscooper plan in case anyone didn't get it. Also a friend of mine has been to NYC where they do have said Horse Nappies apparently. It appears that the smell them is a lot more offensive than one dumping outside your house. Don't even get me started on the dog Shit!...

AgentProvocateur · 04/03/2014 19:52

Funniest. Thread. Ever.

desertmum · 04/03/2014 19:53

SDTG - love the idea of poopsicles - think I will have to start freezing the cat poo as a nice treat for the canines. Perhaps we should market it ?

Cookie08 · 04/03/2014 19:55

This is a wind up.

Caitlin17 · 04/03/2014 19:56

Your reaction is hysterical. Put it on your garden.

maddening · 04/03/2014 19:57

If horse riders are not legally obliged to pick up their horse shit especially deposited on a pavement or pedestrian area then perhaps the law needs changing.

my mum said recently that even when I was little there was a man that would go round with a cart collecting horse droppings as it was saleable (and possibly more frequent - there were folk round where I lived that went about on horses to the pub and shops (rather than leisure riding) (I lived in a village in cheshire) when I was little)

But with there no longer being "money in shit" this isn't happening so maybe the law should change as the use and of horses has changed and there is no longer people collecing the shit.

It wouldn't matter in a country road but it isn't right to use a horse for leisure/recreation through suburban streets and shit everywhere. Also isn't there a bag you can attach to the back of the animal to catch it?

maddening · 04/03/2014 20:00

Missi - but it is the rider that would have to put up with the pong - of course it's less smelly to shit and walk off from the riders point of view but the inconvenience should be levied at the person whose hobby it is.

maddening · 04/03/2014 20:00

bigjobs · 04/03/2014 20:00

Thanks devil. It's true - she wore a lovely robe and afterwards had a just married sign on her head .

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