Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

999 replies

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:
merrymouse · 05/03/2014 18:44

As far as I understand it horses can be trained to an extent to shit in certain places. The problem is that unlike dogs they can only hold onto it for so long.

Can't help thinking that if it were that easy (as it generally is with dogs), you would never see police horses relieving themselves.

merrymouse · 05/03/2014 18:47

"before getting in your car to follow them, stopping at every possible place to shout some more, while they trot as fast as possible towards home…"

I was going to say, no, the OP only wanted to do that, she didn't actually do it, and then I realised you were talking about your own nutters, not the OP...

usualsuspect33 · 05/03/2014 18:49

Maybe we should all just insult each other until the thread ends.

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 05/03/2014 18:49

The OP is a much less scary nutter than those particular nutters, merry! The OP is nbu for resisting the urge to hunt them down though. Positive spin on things?!

Original poster
BigRedBall · 05/03/2014 18:54

As for the OP well I'm not sure what's wrong with her tbh.

That's because there's nothing wrong with me Confused.

I'm sorry the smell/feel/taste/vision of horse shit doesn't give me the jollies. That's what a majority of people think is wrong with me judging by this thread.

OP posts:
Original poster
BigRedBall · 05/03/2014 18:55

Can I just say before the thread fills up:

I DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING ROSES.

OP posts:
FrankelInFoal · 05/03/2014 18:56

I've known a few horses who have been trained to pee when their owner whistles, but in my 20 years around horses I have never come across a horse that has been trained to poo on command/ in certain places Hmm

EauRouge · 05/03/2014 18:58

You should plant some roses and then you'll have somewhere to put the horse shit next time this happens.

WowserBowser · 05/03/2014 18:59

ARE WE STILL ALL TALKING ABOUT SHIT???

Shock
WillieWaggledagger · 05/03/2014 18:59

bigredball, totally fine not to be ok with horse poo. personally i see no problem with it as it's herbivore poo, but if you don't like it you don't like it

it's the "I ran up to her shouting" that isn't sensible, but i suspect you've got that message by now Wink

usualsuspect33 · 05/03/2014 19:01

YABU not to have fucking roses for the horseshit.

Ledkr · 05/03/2014 19:02

I've got no roses either!
I do have a hamster. I don't ride him but I do clear up his pooh.
I quite like horses.
I don't like them to pooh where it looks ugly and me or my children can get it on our shoes.
Usual likes horses but not their crap.
I'm an going to invent and patent a folding kath kidston horse poopa scoopa.

CorusKate · 05/03/2014 19:06

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

AfricanExport · 05/03/2014 19:07

What a funny thread.
The message coming from this thread is that if you're a vegetarian you can shit in the street and it is okay as it's not offensive. If however you eat meat then your shit is offensive.

Very odd Confused

Shonajoy · 05/03/2014 19:09

Tinytelltale, according to this thread, horse poo is small, dry and not the same consistency as a cow pat. I have no desire or time to demonstrate the collection of horse poo just to satisfy your pedantic postings, but do feel free to prove how impossible this task is if you do find such a video then.

I'd actually suggest a pair of latex gloves, even though horse poo is virtually sterile by all the posts here, I'd prefer not to handle it!

Anyway, in summation, I actually think the OP was unreasonable at shouting at a horse, I take every opportunity to share the roads safely with everyone, but I don't think it's best to be dropping anything, rubbish, shit, whatever on public roads.

I've said my piece and its just resorting to playground name calling now, so I'm off to do something else. let me know if you find that video though ;0)

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 05/03/2014 19:14

Corus, on the strength of your contributions to this thread, I am quite happy about that.

LaGuardia · 05/03/2014 19:14

OP, YANBU. I hate it when they ride their shire horses down our road. We live in the country, surrounded by acres and acres of fields, but still they find the need to trot down the road, showing off their fat arses and letting their animals crap all over the street. You should have shouted louder.

Original poster
BigRedBall · 05/03/2014 19:18

NO! I will NOT be getting roses. If anything, I HATE roses now. Hate them!

OP posts:
littleomar · 05/03/2014 19:20

You shouldn't put it on your roses fresh, it'll scorch them. Let it rot down a bit first. Give you time to get some roses if you haven't already.

littleomar · 05/03/2014 19:21

Oh cross post. Potatoes?

usualsuspect33 · 05/03/2014 19:21
Thanks
WillieWaggledagger · 05/03/2014 19:21

rofl

it's rather the equivalent of 'a swan can break a man's arm you know'

Shonajoy · 05/03/2014 19:24

Bitter, unhinged, and a lunatic I was called earlier by fullerlonger, and also informed that he/she didn't care if he/ she sounded aggressive.

Bitter because I had the audacity to suggest that little mr/ms prince or princess should clean up their horse shit lest it cause an accident.

Fullerlonger, the lunatic may have been the closest one, since I have been on anti depressants as I'm hopefully recovering from cancer- and I miss the joy and freedom my bike gives me. Bitter I'm not, because I know I will be back to biking soon- maybe you should take one minute to think before you post personal attacks, in such an aggressive manner. Unhinged - I'm not. I can form a debate with out name calling or deliberately trying to be aggressive towards them. The sad thing is, people often use words like these as they are that way themselves, I feel sorry for you that you got your posts removed because you couldn't control your temper, I really do.

usualsuspect33 · 05/03/2014 19:24

Have you got any plants that would benefit from you going out with a giant poop scoop and scooping up the lovely fragrant horse shit?

merrymouse · 05/03/2014 19:24

Although i do think it sounds as though they came back to clean up, I would now be vigilant for a clip clip clip clip whistle noise.

Swipe left for the next trending thread