Profpointy
Legendary Member
in Bristol they built some houses near a working gravel unloading wharf and the new residents wanted the ships not to come on at night. Duh! it's tidal
Horse riders
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in Bristol they built some houses near a working gravel unloading wharf and the new residents wanted the ships not to come on at night. Duh! it's tidal
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Do you have an axe to grind?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Where as horse turd squashed into the road surface and made slimy in the rain isn't an accident waiting to happen?
If I rode about with a bucket of damp mud and every few miles chucked a big gob of it randomly on the floor I'd get wedgied and wet willied by the litter Nazis, so I fail to see why it's acceptable for horse riders just because it's a difficult PITA to pick it up.
I'm fairly pro horse being fellow minority road users, but the stuff they trot out as excuses for not picking their horse poop is utter rot. Bottom line is to pick it up would be a messy, smelly pain in the arriss that no one would want to do. Honesty would win them more friends than the weak merde excuses they come up with.
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sarahale
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Also I spend approximately an hour every day picking up my horses dung from the field, stable and yard area and I agree it is a messy, smelly job but it's not one I avoid when it is safe to do so. But I simply don't see how I am expected to dismount, shovel the dung into a bag on his back and get back on board whilst holding onto him in the middle of the road?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I've never broken my pelvis coming off on slimy horse guano. Doesn't mean I never will, or that no one else has ever come a cropper on it.
How you pick up horse do is your problem to sort, not ours to come up with a solution on your behalf. If you cant be arrissed to climb off and shovel it up (and theres nothing really stopping you except the will to do so - I remember the Rag and Bone man used to scrape up his horses mess without any grief when I were sprog) then you can arrange for someone to follow and do it on your behalf.
You're fit enough to climb up on a horse and enjoy the good times, you're fit enough to climb back down and suffer the bad times.
To be honest, I really don't care about the poop. I don't think its a real problem. It just irks me that horsey types trot out all the crappy excuses, when the bottom line is its simply a messy, unpleasant task and they'd rather not do it. The only barrier is the will to do so, nothing more.
Then stay off the roads.
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So if that's not possible, don't ride in public places, then the shoot won't offend.
sarahale
Über Member
I see so many banana peels and gel wrappers dropped by cyclists so I won't give up riding on the roads just yet.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Ah, that's ok then. Other people leave a mess, so that's justification for us doing so. Glad we got that sorted.
ozboz
Guru
- Location
- Richmond ,Surrey
If you are not very familiar with horse behavior ,
beware of the rising tail !!
beware of the rising tail !!
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Cow pops in Cheshire, mostly - horrible stuff that.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
Completely agree. I've never even noticed it being a problem, and I live near Newmarket ! I feel quite lucky to live somewhere where horses can still be seen quite widely on the roads hereabouts.
Jody
Stubborn git
I'm not but will look out for this. Does it mean the horse is getting a little p*ssed off?
