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?

My nan fell out for 20 years with her neighbour who was disgruntled after she beat them to the horse poo for their garden. Get a shovel, stick it on your roses or sell it. Yabu.

Mooey89 that's the one

There have been a lot of matches with horses lately. It always make me worry when my little ones walk there, albeit with DH, in case there's trouble. They saw someone waving a knife around one day when they were on their way, terrifying!

Ha! The police presence at matches recently has been huge.

At least you can vouch for the enormity of the poo situation!

It's the football club's problem. The horses are clearly only there for the club's benefit.

Also, presumably people in your town are as aware as anybody else that you can put horse shit on your garden, but there is more produced on match days than people want/are able to collect.

Doesn't the manure need to compost? Or can it be immediately applied to rise beds and the like?

Who the hell are these people who think that horse shit doesn't smell?! YANBU.

Karchered

It does smell - it smells lovely! It's the smell of happiness

I'm actually surprised that it's a problem. I must have led a bit of a sheltered life as I've never seen a horse and rider on a pavement.

Horses and riders don't usually go on pavements. However when police horses are being used for crowd control they need to go wherever it is necessary. On a match day the road and pavements will be swarming with people. The whole event will cause disruption.

This is really about the after effects of a large sporting event. Whether the council will be prepared to force the club to clear up will depend on how much power the club has in the community.

if the football club is short of money they could arrange for their loyal fans to go out after the match, collect all the poo and then sell it with the proceeds going back into the club. Horse manure is very expensive round here (no horses where I live).

YANBU

So what if it's good for your roses (although I too thought it should be well rotted first). The OP shovelling it all into her garden every week isn't a solution is it?

Ugh. This really annoys me. I live in the suburbs but near a kind of semi rural park. There are lots of stables around and people always riding horses up my street towards the parkland. Crap everywhere. In the actual park area it is all over the paths. Plus the paths are all churned up by hooves and virtually impassable at times. There are fences and z shaped gates which are there to stop horse riding but theses were kicked down so the horses could be ridden through. Very anti social.

If the twats who watch the matches didn't riot then the police horses wouldn't need to be there. It's an expensive enough resource as it is without cleaning up too.

On second thoughts - the twats should clean it up!

My flatmate used to rush out and collect it for his "tomato plants", thought it the only appropriate means of getting best possible crop.

The needing to be well rotted is a myth. Its easier to dig into soil if well rotted, but fresh works fine just on top of the soil.

I'm with others who've said advertise it on gardening forums

Horse poop does actually contain dangerous bacteria such as antibiotic resistant E. coli, Cryptosporidiosis, Campylobacteriosis, Leptospirosis, Ring Worm, etc. The idea that it's 'clean' poop is a strange myth. It's not as dangerous as the feces of carniverous/omniverous animals but it does certainly pose a risk and it's pretty disgusting to have piles of it just left on the road you live on.

" Coliform bacteria are ubiquitous and are necessary beneficial organisms that help most normal healthy species including man and animals digest their food. E. coli under certain conditions - such as stress or infections - cause disease in its host or may be found as a secondary invader to other diseases. Strains that exist in one species generally do not affect others - consequently man's primary concern is for E. coli of human origin and then only if it is found in his food or water - not because of the E. coli itself but because of other germs that may accompany it. While E. coli from a number of species, including humans, can cause intestinal disease under certain conditions, those of equine origin have not been shown to do so. "On concentrated reflection, I can come up with no explanation why the horse should be singled out as a likely source of human disease. On the contrary, among domestic animals the horse is perhaps the least likely to play such a role". From a paper back in 1998 , prepared by a vet , using the expertise of toxicologists , livestock management experts , soil scientists , and a very art school .

So actually, the 'dangerous bacteria' isn't likely to affect humans all that much .

vetinary school ! Although they may have done some art too ..

Yanbu. Saw a policeman dismount in Bristol city centre a few weeks back to shovel his horse's poo up and put it on a nearby flowerbed, do it seems that sometimes they clear up.

But if there are thousands of football supporters out and about then there is presumably a litter problem too? Or does litter get cleaned up and horse poo left behind?

I'd during the nonsense that goes on before and after a football match makes it difficult for police officers to concentrate on what's coming out of their horses arse. Remember this?

The needing to be well rotted is a myth. Its easier to dig into soil if well rotted, but fresh works fine just on top of the soil.

Ok. I just remember on Gardeners World they always used to refer to 'well-rotted horse manure'.

Whatever, you only need so much of it so what's generated every weekend in a city centre is probably going to be surplus to most local gardeners' needs.

As TreadSoftly says, litter gets cleared up, presumably by the council hopefully at the club's expense. The same should apply to horseshit.

I'm sorry to change the subject, but has there been an increase in football violence again?