AIBU - Horse riders pick up poo?

[kaz2810]

First time asking on here so here it goes!

I'm bloody fuming, we live in a fairly large town but are lucky enough to live by a lovely canal. First 1/4 mile or so is a concrete path wide enough for 2 people to walk side by side. I'm walking along this afternoon and in the distance there are some horses & a women with a buggy feeding ducks. One of the horses poo's and as normal keeps going leaving a steaming pile all over the path meaning that anyone with a pram, wheelchair etc cannot get past unless they lift over or roll straight through it. ( bushes one side & water the other side of path) this is a daily occurance and I'm totally fed up of dodging it. Surely when on a concrete pathway the riders could show some consideration to others?

Horse poo is just munched up Grass Are you OK with vegans using paths as toilets as well?

Frankie Detorri should do the trick
Crying with laughter

I don't understand why riders are being branded 'entitled arses' and similar simply for doing as the law allows You can't have read any of the threads about children watching Peppa Pig on a tablet. You would think it carried the death penalty to listen to some.

You know fields are generally privately owned don’t you Janey? Roads are dangerous for horses on the whole so most riders prefer not to ride for too long on them (although may need to use them to reach suitable places).

Read the link I posted above about horses and towpaths - it seemed pretty sensible.

This is why riders aren’t always that keen to go on the roads

I can remember when people were a little bit better educated and less bone idle they would run out of their homes to pick shit up for their gardens.

Wow!! People who don’t pick up (other people’s) horse shit are uneducated and bone idle?? but the people who actually own the shit and left it there aren’t bone idle, they couldn’t possible be expected to clear up their own horses shit? Got it.

I'll eat them
I'll wear their skin
I'll slaughter their babies so my baby can drink their milk and I can pour it on my cereal
I'll bet on them for the adrenalin rush during the Grand National
I'll have them cruelly experimented on so that my shower gel doesn't give me a rash
I'll used their fossilised bodies to fuel my car
I'll have lovely zoo visits to watch them exist in a cage

But very dare they drop some digested grass on the square foot of the planet that I wanted to walk on!

bears it doesn't have to be either/or. Reasonable adjustment isn't preventing others with historic rights from using a space so you can.

If everywhere made reasonable adjustments, then the few places it is impossible wouldn't be an issue, the issue is that reasonable adjustments often aren't made despite it being possible.

In this type of scenario a divided path could be a cheap and easy solution. In theory just a sign saying 'horses to the inside only' would be enough, but you can guarantee riders would then be abused if pedestrians were blocking the inside and they had to ask them to move over or ride on the wrong side. A fence could solve it.

'My wheelchair trumps riders in a shared space' is neither reasonable or necessary.

'My wheelchair trumps riders in a shared space' is neither reasonable or necessary.

Nor is it what I said. I said it is a shared use path so no group should be prevented from using it. I agree it shouldn’t be either or.

@Devilishpyjamas

I'm quite proud of myself for that one!

Ohgod I can't breathe, this thread is amazing.

Aww haven't we started on the a plastic bag snobbery yet?

Well I would be using a M & S bag, as I own a horse n all, I'm posh me.

Walkers drop litter.

No they don’t actually. Litter droppers drop litter, whether they be walkers runners, cyclists or horse riders.

I'm not sure but even if they carried a small tool of some sort

Frankie Detorri should do the trick.

Battlecunt, that made me laugh so loud I woke the dog up.

Please please please can this thread go in classics...?

@Lakielady I am still laughing at it myself actually, I mean I know it's a faux pas to laugh at your own humour, but I can't help it.

@Aridane

And the prize for the most unpleasant post on this thread goes to Scabbersley

Absolutely agree. @Scabbersley seems equally distainful of all those with a disability be it using a wheelchair or having mental health problems. I suppose if there's one thing I can take from having read the full thread is to be greatful that although I have mental health problems at least I'm not a cunt.

I part loan a horse. I’m confused now about whether I’m posh or not, and also whether I own half of the shit or just have the loan of half of it? Can someone please clarify.

I shop in Aldi mostly if that helps but only buy the nice ham

In this instance, laughing at your own joke is entirely justified, Battlecunt.

I'm still chuckling at my mental image of Frankie Dettori leaping off a rider's horse, clearing up the shit, then leaping back up again.

I'm still chuckling at my mental image of Frankie Dettori leaping off a rider's horse, clearing up the shit, then leaping back up again.

I totally think that counts as a reasonable adjustment