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.

Anyone fancy pitching this idea on Dragons' Den? Horse nappies?

I bet one of your neighbours will have nabbed it by now.

Is it still there OP ?

Pmsl at "a big arse full of shit"

YWBU to run down the street screaming at someone whilst dragging your toddler and leaving a sleeping baby alone in the house.

It's just one of those things, cats and horses can poo where they like.

procrastinatingagain "I quite like the smell of horse shit. Is that weird?"

Well, it's certainly weird to me. It makes me heave. YUK. I can't imagine liking the smell of any kind of shit tbh.

Youre being idiotic.

You go out and be massively grateful that you don't have to carry it far and you shovel it onto your garden.

Don't look a literal gift horse in the mouth

If by any chance you're being serious (and I don't believe that the gen pop is that dim about real life):

Horse riders don't pick up shit as they're vehicles and not pets
It's not like dog or human shit, you won't get ill, it's big enough to walk round
Horses have been shitting for thousands of years, humans have been grateful for thousands of years
Running up and yelling with a kid in your arms behind an animal 10 foot tall that kicks when spooked is beyond stupid to a whole other realm of numptiness

Shouting in the presence of horses is always unreasonable.

I'd have shovelled up the poo for free fertiliser, horseshit is ace.

Ha hA, YA so BU. Put it on your roses.

Now there's a business opportunity! Horse nappies? They could be called Pony Pampers.

Since they don't exist please explain to me how a horse rider is meant to solve this problem? Tell them to go before they set off? Carry a horse-sized pooper scooper (yes they do exist but they are too big to carry on horseback) and some rubble sacks?

Dog shit has to be picked up because:

1. It can carry parasites that are damaging to people (and dogs I guess)
2. it stinks because they eat meat
3. There would be tonnes of it because there are millions of dogs.

BTW what are 'horsey friends'?

Horse nappies are a thing but i think they only work if the horse is being driven i mean like a horse and cart not that there are horses sat in the back of cars

YABU. You sound a bit bonkers, actually.

YABU and could potentially have caused the horse to panic by shouting at the rider. Which could have resulted in injury to the horse, the rider, a bystander or property- really very daft of you, IMO.

Disclaimer: I have horses and do not pick it up when they pooh on roads (although we live in the country).

I'm not sure how you think the rider could pick it up? Even if they could where would they put it?

I'm assuming there is no reason they haven't got the right to use your road, and there is nothing in the law or the highway code that suggests

Also, I assume children are able to avoid the pile of horse shit, if they wanted to, it's not an environmental health hazard.

BTW, I once reported someone who shouted at me and waved their arms around while riding my horse, causing her to panic and injure herself (over a similar issue). She was a youngster, out with older horses for company and I was wearing a high vis vest. The police took it seriously, as horses have rights to use public roads and gave the person involved a formal warning of some sort.

Horse poo is made of grass and hay. Don't worry about it too much. Riders cannot control where there horses go in the same way as dog owners can.

This is a joke i think. You reckon the rider should have climbed off her horse with her shovel?

Shouldn't horses that are being ridden outside on a road be trained so they can tolerate shouting though? Might be a bit dangerous if not.

The horses on the prom in Blackpool have to wear them. Otherwise Blackpool might look a bit grotty or summat....

procrastinatingagain "I quite like the smell of horse shit. Is that weird?"

Me too, and I LOVE the smell of cowshit

But I live in a small horsy country town and have horses up and down my street all the time. If you went ballistic at a horse rider round here everyone would be at you.

BTW if you came up behind my DD on a horse on a road and shouted at her and I witnessed it, I would not be responsible for my actions.

YABU to shout near horses.

Nag nappies! Imagine how they would drag down when full of shit. Talking of full of shit...

And like the others said, you could have caused the horse to bolt - she could have been a young horse and prone to scaring - resulting in injury to people AND horse.

Constantly BuzzardBird? Have you done something to annoy the local riding school....?