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?

Shame the horse owners don't pay a poo tax

Because the emission from a horse are as influential a factor on climate change as vehicles?

If there were a poo tax, I’d pay it, but if I turned up at the DVLA offices with a few readies in my pocket and said ‘here’s my poo tax’, they would not currently have the processes in place to deal with it, so in the meantime we can’t be blamed for not paying a non-existent tax.

I'd pay a poo tax happily if the money was partly used to educate drivers and the general public how to behave round horses on roads.

Bears - I’m not clear what you are saying. Are you saying that horse poo is a larger problem for access than say steps, buggies in wheelchair spaces or untarmaced lanes etc?

Unfortunately if I blocked them, I'd be blocking about 8 other spaces too and I have PTSD so confrontation has to be avoided as I'll really suffer. I tried coming slightly later but they just took him to club and charged me. Hopefully I'll be able to sort it soon as it's diabolical.

It would never happen at the school I teach at. The head would do everything in his power to enable a disabled parent to collect their child.

Also, there aren't many larger problems for me than my wheelchair.

I'd pay a poo tax happily if the money was partly used to educate drivers and the general public how to behave round horses on roads.

I pay for BHS membership which does this - and campaigns for bridleways and other safety and welfare improvements. I may start referring to it as my "poo tax"

Do go to the governors valerrie - ds3 and ds3’s School were really helpful when we had issues with ds1 and having to collect the younger one. Initially it was using the disabled space then when things got really bad they collected ds3 for us each morning.

Me too Diseases 😂😂😂

Bhs membership aka pootax.

I would actually happily pay a pootax to be able to access the 1000s of acres of council land we currently can't access due to off road motorbikes.

Now off road bikes causing a menance on roads, fields and paths and tracks is actually an issue I could get behind. Would much rather have horseshit on my pram wheels than get run over by them fuckers.

Me three diseases. Not their fault but I'd like more widespread campaigning, like the think bike stuff.

I'm now expecting someone to pop along and accuse us of being rich Tory bastards who screwed over British home stores staff given we are members

Yeah, the ability to be able to access shared spaces independently without getting shit on my hands, clothes and wheelchair does rate pretty highly thanks.

Just to be clear, I've never been a member of British Home Stores. I'm too posh for that.

All my clothes come from Harrods. I send a little man out to get them for me.

(glances down at high street branded jeans, heavily mud-splattered, and the frankly geeky, horse-slobbered hoodie)

But bears I mean how often does it happen? Or are you the person who has horses regularly on the pavement? If so then I agree with you that they shouldn’t be on the pavement - but that’s a fairly unusual situation surely? Not one that many wheelchair users will come across. If I saw horses being ridden on the pavement I would ask them to get off. I haven’t ever seen a horse or a horse poo on the pavement btw (except Hyde park but that’s a bit different) - although not disputing that it happens.

Just to be clear, it's a criminal offence to take a horse on a(n adopted) pavement, so I would be inclined to report it to the police and take photos if I saw horses doing it. No idea if they would pursue it, but they ought to.

I mean if I saw riders taking their horses on the pavements. Not meaning to imply there might be gangs of horses out alone, standing on the pavements, being rebellious and partaking in deliberate law-breaking.

Scary thought. 🐴🐴🐴

They would all be Welshies.

I wondered where my poop a scoop had gone but turns out frankie is now diseases personal shopper.

sniggers

Yes, well, one just can't get the staff these days.

They would all be Welshies

Yeah they would be welshies.

Led on by an evil and cunning highland who would have trashed the fencing in the first place to let them out then been the right side of it looking innocent while the welshies throw themselves on the floor when the rozzers turn up in sheer panic. While the highland stands and tuts at their foolishness (highland and welsh owner).

And the Warmblood would be stood in the field going "What?"

I actually own that very highland...

Warmblood aka dumb blood.

At least a warmblood wouldn't get on a pavement. It would be too scared of the pavement edge being a dressage board in disguise and would probably piaffe down the road instead.

I don't actually think a welsh would be a problem on a towpath. It's more likely to spook at a duck or it's own reflection, spin and end up in the canal.

Seems to me that the OP was walking along a route that is Witter a bridleway or permissive route. Why can't she use a carrier for her child if it can't walk instead of a buggy? Then there won't be any wheels in poo.