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.

Oh and figrus you sound very bitter. Why would signalling to drivers be arrogant? It is for the safety of everyone on the road to remind all drivers to slow down even when there is plenty of room to pass. I know from experience how frightening it is when drivers do not slow down and thanks to twats like you, who think that as long as they are doing the speed limit they are behaving appropriately, riders and horses can and do lose their lives.

Now where were we? Oh yes. Horse poo. Put it on your garden. Find something worth getting upset about. Carry on!

I suspect it is because the ill-informed assume horse riding and owning a horse is elitist and only rich bitches can afford it.

No, i didn't think this previous to this thread. But now after reading this thread, i do think horse riders come across as a shower of arrogant, uppity, entitled, equine obsessed twats.

And please read my previous response properly. I said i drive within the speed limit on country roads, slowing down when approaching walkers, cyclists and horses. But it is only the horse riders who patronisingly flap their arms in a moronic way.

'Country people' are not some sort of superior beings. In fact the way they have responded to the OP of this thread and anyone agreeing with her doesn't really show them in a particularly good light.

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Nah, Some of the horsey people on here sound rude and obnoxious.

I'm glad I live in a town tbh.

I like horse shit. It always seems so wholesome.

I'm also glad you live in a town

Excellent! Chuffed to see this madhouse thread is still going on!

Always makes me laugh how MN is very protective when it comes to animals - except poor old dogs!!

Dare to mention kids running up & startling your dog & it's all your fault & they shouldn't be out in public or should be muzzled.

But if its a horsey, it's all the other way round!

Oh well, at least they taste nice - unlike dogs.....

Sorry, you arrogant shits, i am going at the correct speed limit. If your horse cant deal with cars passing it, go gallop in the fields.

You are contradicting yourself somewhat figrus.

"I live in the country and my pet peeve is when riders, on small country roads, wave their hands up and down, when you are approaching in a car. Sorry, you arrogant shits, i am going at the correct speed limit. If your horse cant deal with cars passing it, go gallop in the fields. I mean you automatically slow down when you see people walking, cyclists or horse riders on the road. But only the horse riders arogantly flap the arms when a car approaches."

The most fucking ignorant thing I've read for a long while, on so many levels.
A good driver drives at a speed that is safe for the road, the conditions and other road users - not at "the correct speed limit". On country roads it is common for the speed limit for the road to be unsafe in any conditions.
Waving arms up and down is a recognised request for the other driver to slow down, horse rider or not, someone is asking you to drive a bit slower for some reason, why not do it?
Come and show the riders which fields exactly they can "gallop" in. Fields are private land, just as the public can't walk where ever they want, riders can't ride everywhere either. Many riders are forced on to the road in order to get to the nearest safe riding on bridleways and similar. If they're lucky and there are bridleways of course. Why on earth would anyone slow for other road users not in cars - and of course other cars if need be - but not horse riders?
Anyone driving irresponsibly and dangerously around horse riders is a potential murderer. Next time you see a rider out see these words in front of them - WE DON'T DENT WE DIE - and take a couple of seconds in your selfish existence to contemplate what you are prepared to risk for two other living beings - their lives. Oh, and the lives of yourself and your passengers of course. The horse might weigh half a ton. In these accidents drivers and front seat passengers are obviously at risk of injury or death when that comes through the windscreen.
I hope you never have to deal with the aftermath of an RTA with a horse and rider, the blood - oh so much blood, the tears, the shock, the sound of a horse screaming in agony, often with a limb dangling. Then the wait for the vet, the anguished onlookers who want to help. The friends of the rider who come to support them in the wait and at the end when they stand grief-stricken while their beloved friend is shot at the side of the road. That's if they're lucky enough to be able to stand of course, and aren't in an ambulance injured or dead. Oh, and why not hang about to watch that lovely animal winched in to the disposal lorry?
I think it's pretty easy to spot arrogant shits sometimes.

As long as you keep your horse shit in the country, I'm happy.

I resisted the PA smiley there.

Figrus, I was responding in general to the ill-informed comments on here, not specifically responding to you.

Riders 'wave their arms in a moronic way' because it is a universally recognised and recommended signal to other road users to slow down. It is the equivalent of a hazard light/indicator for riders. Would you rather they carried on and totally blanked other road users? Actually, maybe you would as most car drivers seem to give that particular dubious honour to riders.

meerschweinchen, totally agree. Pretty much exactly what I said in my previous post.

That's a sweeping and unfair generalisation Usual. Lots of people, me included, have said they live in towns and think the OP was U.

Until recently I had lived in a town all my life - regularly saw mounted police and horses going up and down street to local stables. All horse riders polite. Horse shit quickly dried/washed away or regularly collected by stables or gardeners.

I am sure some people reacted like OP - it takes all sorts and not everyone knows much about horses. However, I never heard anyone complain.

The majority of people on this thread have slated the OP, called her names and told her to get a life blah blah blah.

I've lost count of the number of 'Townie' comments.

It's not funny it's bloody awful.

I remember having a question in my driving theory test about which lane horses will be using at a roundabout. I knew the answer as I ride, but my point is that it's part of the Highway Code to know how to share the road safely with horses.

I suppose the safety problem that has been debated on this thread ('should a horse that can potentially bolt be on tge road?) comes about because back in ye olden times when the roads were primarily used by horses, everyone would have had horse sense and you wouldn't get people like the OP running and flapping their arms and not understanding that they could cause an accident by doing so.
In the intervening years as horses on the roads become less common, that general knowledge in the population has been lost, meaning horses become a more dangerous presence. I think however that it's part of our civic (and, as the Highway Code shows, legal) responsibility to learn how to behave safely around animals that we encounter - same goes for dogs - whether you like them or not, horses are a part of our world and sometimes they shit

You know what really gets in my way when I am driving - cars. There they go with their blinkety blinkety lights, stopping and starting all over the place. GERROWAMYBLADDYWAY!!! I shout at them.

I mean you automatically slow down when you see people walking, cyclists or horse riders on the road.

Coldteaagain. Read my op.

Although - I'm quite interested in the fact that if I feed my dog on vegetarian food so he's technically a herbivore, I don't have to pick his shit up as it's nice & will get run over by cars & bikes & eventually go.

Maybe some horsey folk will like the smell & take it to put on their flowers!

Cool!!

and you wouldn't get people like the OP running and flapping their arms - she was behind the fecking creature & a good distance from it. I doubt the horse even noticed her!

Nappies is the way forward! Transport your turds back to the stables!

As horseshit is plant waste as many people are saying are all horse riders actually Fly Tipping then? Should have set Plod on them OP