To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

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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 -I can see why you are miffed -who wants shit that doesn't belong to them in front of their house whether it is beautiful vegan horsey shit or not.

You did over react though which you probably realise by now , so have the many posters on this thread , where at least 3 have called you an idiot and 1 called you stupid! I find that a bit more shocking.

horse shit stinks but it doesn't seem as grim as dog shit.

How on earth did you expect her to clean it up? Horse poo is basically mushed up grass and hay and is nothing like as dangerous as dog poo or cat poo.

I'm sorry, it was stupid to shout at her. How on earth would you have felt if that horse had bolted in to traffic and seriously injured or killed somebody as a result? How would you have felt if it was a young horse who panicked at you going after it and shouting behind it and deposited it's rider in to the road or on to a car? How would you have felt if the horse had spun round and reared up in front of you?

If you are that bothered then shovel it up or sluice it away with a bucket or two of water.

If it had been a dog owner then I could understand your reaction but as it is I think you are being very unreasonable.

horse shit is positively aromatic what are u chatting about?!!
gosh when i used to have to muck out before breakfast the whiff of it made me starving!

""Horsey Friends" are probably the pointy nosed, large toothed girls in unflattering jodhpurs that the chief shitter was associating with."

Yes that's what I suspected too. Nothing like a nice bit of stereotyping....

Well, to be fair magenta, most are pointing out the inadvisability of running up to half a ton of horse, yelling and waving and carrying a small child.
If you frighten a house, unless you are a tiger, you are likely to come off worse in the encounter.

It's not so much the shovel Goblin...it's the remounting with full (heavy) bag of poo AND shovel, retractable or not, on the side of a road (bloody dangerous). I can just imagine the chaos caused if I accidentally bashed my horse in the side with the poo or shovel (how I'm mounting with no hands I have no idea!).

maybe it's like an acquired taste (or smell?) or something? DS saw a horse shitting a couple of weeks ago and he's still laughing about the horse that pood on the floor.

whatis your normal name op?
yabu.
but why did you name change? cos you knew you were unreasonable?

Collapsible shovel and shit-filled saddlebags?

I know, OP maybe didn't do the most sensible thing and could have frightened the horse but to be called a 'fucking idiot' by a stranger on a forum is a bit harsh!

She has no control over her horse taking a massive horse sized shit when it wants but YANBU to be pissed off at her attitude. Bag it up and save it for her.

Maybe the OP is worried the horserider is on MN, and is currently writing a post about how a lady screamed at her horse for pooing in the street.

Oh yes for some reason small dc's find horses poo-ing hilarious,at least your toddler would have had a chuckle op! (well mine always do anyway!)

Or perhaps a light weight poo hoover with a extra long and fat suction tube that you could operate from horseback. And a waterproof bag that could be rinsed after use. I can see a company logo in my future - a pile of horse poo that transforms into coins, company name 'Horse Shit Solutions'.

get it on dragons' den ormirian!

I'm as townie as they come but even I can see the madness in:

Expecting a rider to dismount, clear shit, bag it and remount while maintaining control of a big horse in a street. What was she supposed to do with the horse while she was cleaning up?

Running after a horse shouting while holding a toddler.

Both of these seem really stupid to me. It's only horse shit.

Interesting that in London for example, major city, if horse guards' horses poo, it's left where it fell. It's really no big deal. It's just horse poo. In the road. It's not like they dumped on your kitchen table. And it's nothing like dog shit.

But jobs is making me giggle now.

YABVU

You also keep complaining about the shit but have ignored everyone telling you how dangerous your outburst could have been.

Hope your toddler isn't potty training, they will now associate pooing with you screaming.

OP- you do know, don't you, that when you look at a patch of grass and it has little squiggly piles on it - THAT IS WORM POO!!!!

Nobody ever cleans it up!!!!

Just think, you let your toddler run around and sit down on piles and piles of POO!

But jobbies.

I'd be pissed off too but then I really don't get horsey people. All that wearing of little horsey trinket necklaces, wearing of stinky wax jackets and saying they like the smell of shit. (Can you tell I prefer the city?!)

You will soon find it gone - people usually have to pay for it. It is highly sought after. YAB vvv U