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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:
RiverTam · 04/03/2014 14:27

do any of your neighbours have roses? - offer it to them, they'll love it!

or, just ignore it. It's biodegradable, it'll be gone soon.

The only horses we see round our way are police horses, if one takes a crap outside my house shall I run after it, with DD in my arms, shouting? Massive buggers, police horses. DD likes them, though whenever she sees a horse she thinks there's a dead person near by and asks where they are (the first horses she ever saw were pulling a hearse), which could be an awkward conversation with the boys in blue.

olympicsrock · 04/03/2014 14:28

I would be annoyed abot this. I do think all animal owners need to be responsible in urban areas. Why shouldn't they stop and clear it up? Maybe carry a bag with a shovel. Fine in the country side but not in built up area by someone's drive.

Flexiblefriend · 04/03/2014 14:28

Massive over reaction OP. Surely life is too short to get this wound up over a pile of digested grass?

Elsiequadrille · 04/03/2014 14:29

Bit of an overreaction, OP. And not the best idea to go running after them shouting.

You say they laughed. Perhaps they were laughing about something else, rather than amusement at horse muck deposited outside a drive.

kungfupannda · 04/03/2014 14:30

You are completely overreacting and your response was daft and dangerous.

And as for "I ran up to her shouting excuse me", words fail me. Surely you know better than to run up to a horse shouting and yelling? It sounds as though the rider was trying to avoid engaging with you as she was concentrating on her horse, as she should have been. If the horse had been spooked by your actions there could have been much more to worry about than some manure in the general vicinity of your house. Particularly given that you were apparently carrying a small child when running at a large, possibly flighty, animal.

Her response was entirely measured, and the law is on her side.

Goldencity1 · 04/03/2014 14:30

1 pile of horse shit? Just one??I can tell you live in a town!
At my old house, my ndn used to walk 200 fresian cows past our drive twice a day. Plus flocks of sheep moved past about once a week. Plus all the local horse riders [10 or so per day]. Plus all the free range hens, and the seeming 100's of farm cats and the farm dogs [and NO farmer goes round with a poop bag] and don't even get me started about the hunt....dogs and horses with the added benefit of posh gits in range rovers.
So don't moan about one pile....

NigellasDealer · 04/03/2014 14:31

Maybe carry a bag with a shovel
oh yes that would be so very practical, easy and safe!

half the problem is that horse riders are perceived as 'snooty' or rich or something IMO/E

kungfupannda · 04/03/2014 14:32

Oh and we have horse shit outside our drive fairly regularly - we live in a small village.

No-one has yet died of exposure to manure.

MimiSunshine · 04/03/2014 14:32

she replied "stop shouting at me" without even turning around to see I had a toddler in my arms.
Well how very dare she! Presumably she wasn't aware that your DS was in fact Prince George and we were in fact living in Tudor times when the heir apparent had to be bowed and scraped to even as a babe in arms.

Complain to the farm if you must but they'll think you batty. I'm not sure what you expected her to do with the poo or how she should have prevented the horse pooing but YAVU to chase after a rider on a horse shouting. If you cant see the danger in that then you are an imbecile.

sebsmummy1 · 04/03/2014 14:32

You have just made your child witness your very unreasonable and irrational behaviour OP. You claim that watching a horse clip clop past was something that previously was very enjoyable and a fun experience for your child(ren). Well you have now made it a scary thing due to running about screaming at people.

Not cool at all.

grownoutofglitter · 04/03/2014 14:32

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Owllady · 04/03/2014 14:33

Do people really think you can get off a horse and clean up its poo Confused

Misspixietrix · 04/03/2014 14:33

Yes she didn't exactly have a warming attitude but how is she meant to pick horse shit up? I often walk in the nearby village. It's not as if they can pop it in a poopascoop bag is it? Confused

Troglodad · 04/03/2014 14:35

Perhaps people with cars should get out and suck up their emissions with a straw every ten yards, too.

LaurieFairyCake · 04/03/2014 14:35

Horses on roads are not animals, they are vehicles. They are covered by insurance like cars.

In the same way as cars emit carbon into the atmosphere via a catalytic converter, horses emit carbon into the atmosphere via their arse.

Being 'annoyed' about vehicle emissions and expecting the owner of the vehicle to act outside the law/insurance/safety by clearing up their emissions and stopping in the street is a pointless activity.

Horses are allowed to emit in the street. It is not safe to get off and clear it up because some eejit is offended at the law not covering their personal preference.

limitedperiodonly · 04/03/2014 14:36

I was riding behind my friend and her horse kicked a dollop in my open mouth. It's not the greatest taste sensation but it wasn't that bad.

Another time I was in the front seat on a dog sled and what I didn't realise is that when they've been running for about a minute they get an uncontrollable urge to shit.

Imagine trying to duck out of the way of 10 dogs'-worth of flying shit. I didn't manage it.

That was far, far worse.

I'll take horse shit outside my house any old time.

henrysmate · 04/03/2014 14:36

You're lucky as all hell the rider had the sense to put some distance between you and sharp, powerful hooves, they might well have saved your life, think about that for a minute.

And as for not taking notice of you even though you had a toddler in your arms, what does that make you, Kofi blummin Annan and the world has to stop and listen to you?
Listen to yourself woman.

HenriettaMaria · 04/03/2014 14:36

This happens once in while outside our house; there is a livery stable on the main road out of the village.

Not once have I given it any thought except when the dog eats it.

OP thank fuck that you don't live in earlier times when there was horse shit everywhere.

KirjavaTheCat · 04/03/2014 14:36

She was being very responsible by not turning around and alerting the horse even further to your shouting, I reckon. I don't think she was rude at all. You on the other hand!

sparechange · 04/03/2014 14:38

I live and work in London, so the only horses that I ever see are police horses
And guess what! They don't clear their shit up either!
YABU. And utterly, utterly stupid to shout around horses
Horses have been shitting on roads as long as roads have been invented. Which is far longer than neurotic mothers have been screeching at passing horses

AgaPanthers · 04/03/2014 14:38

"Horses on roads are not animals, they are vehicles. They are covered by insurance like cars."

Nope, they are more like bicycles. No insurance required.

LOL at the flying sleigh dog shit.

WillieWaggledagger · 04/03/2014 14:39

anyone suggesting they carry a bag and shovel whilst on a hack has likely never ridden a horse

kotinka · 04/03/2014 14:40

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LaurieFairyCake · 04/03/2014 14:40

I don't know any horse rider who rides on roads without insurance.

I mean they have to cover themselves against people who run up behind them shouting Wink

Scarletohello · 04/03/2014 14:40

FFS!

Just use it as manure on your roses...

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