To think the poo from the police horses should be cleaned up?!

[Mooey89]

I live in a a city. We have a big football ground, which is on what is essentially an industrial estate on a busy through part of the city.
On match days, there are loads of police around on horses. Every time, the whole of this part of the city is littered with horse poo.

Match was yesterday. Today, as usual, all over the (pedestrian) walkways, there are piles of horse poo!

I'm not talking one pile where the rider wasn't able to clean it up. I'm talking piles all over the streets! We by no means live in a rural area and it's not like this is near fields and grassy areas. I understand that horses have got to poo but if they need to use horses then surely they need to make provision to clean it up??
AIBU?

YANBU, someone (I like the idea of the football ground) should be organising a clean up.

No it doesn't present bacterial issues or smell, but it does get slippery in the rain (speaking from experience!) and pushchairs and wheelchairs could have particular problems.

Shovelling up horse poop could be an excellent community service job for shop lifters or persistent litterers...

YANBU, but I think someone from the football ground should clean it up.

There was a huge pile of horse shit on the pavement outside my local primary school a few weeks back, after some funeral horses went by.

By the end of the day, it was trodden in and smeared all over the pathways.

I am not sure if we are in the same city but after yesterday's match there is horse poo everywhere. Not sure what the solution is but it's grim!

"someone at the end of the day could do round and scoop it up if it's on walkways"

If I was closer, it would be me. So good for the garden. Quite a nice little bonus for the community really that you have it there just for the taking.

Advertise the poo on a local gardening forum & let the gardeners do the clearing up...

Use it for your roses

Do football clubs pay for the extra police presence? If they require the extra police+horses then ,Yes, they should pay for cleaning up after
I'm willing to bet there's a whole load more rubbish and litter generated by a game.

And yes, I know it's only chopped up grass but I wouldn't like to stand in a pile of it !

I love the smell of horse shit, I like to roll around in it.

I don't know how it works in the UK, but surely someone from the council or similar needs to coordinate police presence, medical services, transport services etc. for these matches, so they should also organise the cleaning up afterwards and charge the club accordingly in their council tax or with a special cleaning fee.

Set up a business bagging and selling it.

"Poos'R Us", "Poo 4 U" etc.

@DancingDinosaur

How do the horses at a funeral get onto the pavement? (Genuine question) They are usually attached to a hearse/carriage

Write to the football ground, the police wouldn't need to be there if it wasn't for them. Police Cleaning horse poo is not a good use of police time or taxpayers money.

zaneymobster
South Coast, blue kit? outs self

"How do the horses at a funeral get onto the pavement? (Genuine question) They are usually attached to a hearse/carriage"

But they don't go onto a pavement . A funeral carriage drawn by horses stops by the side of the road - the same as a car.

That's the point, Fru - a PP said there was horse poo on the pavement outside school after a funeral went by. Why/how did it happen?

Thank you cardi

Dancing I really did roll around in it once. (Battle of wills with an obstinate nag who would only let me dismount on the muck heap). I thought I smelt lovely, but DM refused to let me in the house until I had been Karchered.

Ah, sorry, cardi, I should RTFT properly

But I agree with you, I don't understand why a horse-drawn funeral cortege should be going down the pavement

thevfootball club will play the police for the extra presence. However the club in question if I'm right has had massive financial troubles in resent years. But then it is an issue for most football clubs if not all, there not very often in rural areas, I think Forest Green maybe the only one that isn't in a town or city.

There should however be some responsibility on the club or the council.

In the mean time yep use in on the gardens

Why don't you suggest the club are billed for clearing it up ?
To be fair though I'd see it as a freebie

I'm surprised people don't scoop it up and sell it !

Also i live neara stadium and we never get horses. Boo.

allegretto maybe your football supporters aren't as rough as ours!! Ha