Anyone ever met THIS out hacking?

[Sanolly]

I once met someone who tried to sell me a ferret he actually had it with him as well! Other than that we regularly meet paragliders who are complete @r$eholes

 

[Hal1k1]

I was out hacking with a friend and on the way home we followed a young very amorous couple. They ran on ahead of us. I know it's naughty but I love looking over hedges to see peoples gardens. So it was only a couple of minutes later when I spotted the couple without clothes on and making some very acrtobatic moves. So being the friendly type I said "Lovely day for it!" Suprisingly they got up and ran into the house. My friend couldn't stop laughing.

I was told this story by a woman who sadly is an alcoholic but she didn't know that all of us at the yard knew her secret. One day this lady was sat in her car having a quiet cup of tea (whisky) whilst parked across the opening to a field. She fell asleep only to be woken by the car rising into the air and then crazily moving forward, the engine was not on. When despite the bouncing she managed to sit up and look out of the window imagine her face when she saw several soldiers carrying her and her car along the road. For some strange reason they hadn't noticed her inside so when she started beeping the horn they nearly dropped her car. They told herthat they were only practising and to sit tight as they were going to put her back in exactly the same place they had moved her from.

 

[YorksG]

We once met a bed push Sister and I were somewhat spooked, but the horses thought it was great and tried to join in! One bed passed the junction and along the lane we were going on, we set off after it, it turned right at the end, we turned left, but with difficulty as both the horses wanted to follow them and look at th crowds

 

[Dubsie]

I sometimes used to see a bed or a sofa driving down the road.
The chap who designs them also has a variety of other fantastic models:
(hope pic not too big)

Not seen one for a while, and fortunately only seen when in the car so far!

 

[gugglebum]

We once met a parked car with a guy in the drivers seat, and as we passed and looked down we could see he had his gearstick in his hand

 

[MadamKing]

Well, I must say, the UK does have some interesting things out hacking! But try this on for size, over here in Australia..

My lovely Thoroughbred mare Angel was very hyper after two weeks off when I went on holiday, and I thought it would be a good idea to take her for a hack through the orchards so I could give her a good gallop. We came pelting around the corner to meet - not an amorous couple (been there, done that), not a bagpiper (we don't seem to get them here), but two people, minus clothing, having a picnic. They waved and said good morning, showing off their...erm... "assests", and continued on with tea and biscuits!

 

[jeeve]

When I was a kid I came across the English & History master at our school in his car in the bush with a teenage girl from our school. This was a regular thing for him (teenage girls from school).

I also came across two really evil looking men who were stripping and dumping a car. They were just standing around when I came past, but I got a really bad feeling and got out of their quick smart, next day car stripped and burnt out.

 

[LauraElise]

There's a guy that does that on the side of the a14 long way from anywhere he was on local news. He said he did it there so no one would complain about the noise. Lol

And there is another one who I have seen parked up in a layby just outside Newcastle Upon Tyne!!

 

[EstherYoung]

monkeybum wrote:

including someone trying to commit suicide

Last year some of the early starters in one of our endurance rides came across a bloke who'd run the exhaust into his car. It clearly wasn't his day to go - if you go and plonk yourself in the middle of a secluded wood at stupid o'clock in the morning the last thing you expect is a load of endurance riders arriving at your car and knocking on your window. The first to find him was our young friend - she was very shocked and upset, but her presence there on that day at that time probably saved his life.

On the lighter side, I've come across a naked cyclist who was very embarrased (?!), and a large inflatable Santa who had come loose from his moorings.

 

[JCWHITE]

Havent come across bagpipes, but did meet the most HUGE snake yesterday,
Horsey stopped, and stood quite still while it slithered away into the bushes.
Its hot here 26 degrees, and it must have been basking on the track,
Times like this I love my horsey and she is only 5 years old !

 

[crazyhorse4727]

Hey that happens at the yard I'm at a bagpiper practices just up the road abit. As far as I know their not allow to practice in town because of the noise, so they get permission for the country!

 

[Natch]

Oh yes now I remember. I expected it but horse didnt. Hacking past go ape, (unbeknown to me there was an alternative route) and someone comes down a zip slide. Friends horse wets himself, mine just stops and stares at the person now on the floor. Of course horses arent built for looking skyward, so then he was obsessed, and around the rest of the high rise course he was trying his hardest to see, by doing his best impression of a hallucinating giraffe with a balance problem

 

[Emma27]

My Dad who lives in Birmingham now, regularly plays his pipes at the side of a canal!

 

[Ginger Bear]

haha...funnily enough..we have come accross a man playing the guitar busking down a bridlepath...when we asked if he could stop so we could get the horses past..he said 'no, & I can't whistle either!!'' lol... i've also come accross a man in just shorts, no shoes, jogging with a gas mask on, he looked like a cave man ..& it was in the middle of winter..that one freakd me out coz I was out walking the dog so couldn't even make a quick gallopping escape!

Oh and last week out riding was chased by a herd of bucking young bulls..that was...interesting!

 

[flutterby321]

Some of these are hilarious!
Once out hacking I turned the corner, only to find myself in front of a group of teenagers doing their d of e expedition. The only problem was they were apparenty lost and in the middle of an ENORMOUS slanging match! Screaming, swearing, crying- the whole lot. Awkwardly I had to walk my pony right through the middle of them to get home!

 

[brigantia]

These are so funny!

The most bizarre thing we encountered when hacking out was a bunch of teenagers in costume engaging in some Lord of the Rings roleplaying game . . . right across the bridlepath for some reason.

Right in the middle of the Bridle Path, we found a dead orc. Meanwhile kids with pasted on elf ears were whacking each other with fake swords. They were too self-absorbed to pay us much notice. So I asked them to please let us pass and then asked the elf nearest to me if he could please give my pony a reassuring pat so she knew she didn't have to be afraid of him. The sodding brat refused to pat the cute pony! But we rode on in peace.

A lady at my stable was coming back from a hack. We need to go through a gate at the back of the mares' field which leads to the bridlepath which leads back to the stableyard. Well, an amorous couple had parked in front of the gate, blocking it. My friend just thwacked on their windshield with her whip until they got dressed and drove away!

Finally some person who thought they were very clever left a ginormous stuffed tiger--like as big as a large dog--on the stone wall near the narrow lane where we hack out. It looked like a real predator and the horses were freaking out. And the person came back to put it in slightly different poses each day so the horses wouldn't just get used to it and ignore it.

Finally I'd had enough and hiked out to get the tiger. I had to cut across the mares' field to drag it back to the stableyard and dispose of it. I tried to avoid the horses, but when they saw me coming with the tiger, they were both alarmed and intrigued. So I put it on the grass and stepped away. Two mares came up and sniffed it before bolting away and coming back and sniffing it some more. Finally the gelding got his stallion on and attacked the tiger by biting its ears THROUGH HIS GRAZING MUZZLE and giving it a good shake. I finally had to pry the tiger away from him because I was afraid he might bite off the ear and choke on the stuffing.

My own mare was a few yards away ignoring the whole spectacle because the grass was far more interesting.

 

[I*HM]

Yikes! I've never met any instruments (as of yet).
The strangest thing I met out hacking was an old guy who set up camp in the side of the road. He'd made a tent out of an old tarp and had filled it with straw as a bed. He had his washing hanging in the nearby trees and a little cart in the ditch. When I rode past he was cooking a tin of beans on an open fire. Poor horse nearly died but as we jogged past side ways the old guy came over, bowed and called me ''Miss''

 

[Vixen Van Debz]

Funniest thread in a while - loving it!

And Dubsie, you know Ed the Mechanic? He's a ledge!

 

[MICHAELA8228]

No but I've seen a man in very small shorts cycling with his winky hanging out! Also another cyclist in very tight shorts standing by his bike with the biggest manhood I've ever seen! He said hello and I couldn't look him in the face!

Lol!!! Just spat my tea out, classic!!!!!

 

[MissSBird]

Oh, this threat has just helped me avoid my latin revision for 20 minutes. Hilarious stuff!

We have a layby right along the road that you have to take to go a hack, and it is always being used for amorous encounters. I also have my suspicions it's being used for less than legal trading as well, but I just try and ignore it for the most part.

Other than that, we don't really get anything exciting or out of the ordinary. Now I feel quite dull

 

[YorksG]

Sister has just reminded me that we used to ride past a lioness! She would be sitting on the flat garage roof in good weather, of on the window seat, looking out if it was cold. She was obviously well fed and never bothered the horse we had then, but both sister and I were a bit nervouse of her

 

[Katyharriet]

My mum and dad were out riding once in the middle of nowhere and they came across a man who had decided that this was clearly the most obvious place to set up his entire drum kit! and proceed to play the thing!

as you do...

 

[SamandMonty]

ok just rememberd
riding up one of the hills my way (mendips) we met a harrier jet doing low maneuvers coming the other way so low you could see the bolts

me

horse eh?

then a sheep popped out and we had a spook

Love this!!!! exactly wot my horse would do!! xx

 

[dumpling]

Some of these are hilarious! We don't get much but from memory, we've had porn magazines and condoms over the road, someone committing suicide, and a small pile of poo with tissues next to it..... Urgh

 

[gugglebum]

Sister has just reminded me that we used to ride past a lioness! She would be sitting on the flat garage roof in good weather, of on the window seat, looking out if it was cold. She was obviously well fed and never bothered the horse we had then, but both sister and I were a bit nervouse of her

Surely this is one of the weirdest!

I saw a lovely group of horses behave beautifully this morning when being accosted with lots of men, a huge marquee and metres of loose flapping bunting on the village green, it was really windy. Then they got to me waiting to cross the road and spooked

 

[samstar]

I've met a bloke playing the drums,I was not on horseback though in a car, he was on a grass verge looking out over across the bristol channel to wales, was a lovely sunset that night

 

[gugglebum]

Some of these are hilarious! We don't get much but from memory, we've had porn magazines and condoms over the road, someone committing suicide, and a small pile of poo with tissues next to it..... Urgh

" I blame the internet for childhood obesity, when I was a kid we used to walk miles through the countryside looking for porn " lol

 

[SpruceRI]

Friend and I got flashed at last year out hacking. The chap was sitting down and giving it a good go, if you know what I mean! When reporting it to the Police, my friend and I both admitted that we hadn't seen his face, as we were too busy looking at what he was doing, until we both realised, faced the front, and sped off!!! ;-)

Once went on a weekend B&Bing to Tilford in Surrey. Riding along a bridlepath that ran through an army cadet training camp. Those lovely chaps and chapesses waited until we were right upon them before having a shoot out and letting off a few bombs. Rosie is NOT bombproof. We left the area. FAST!!

Have been riding on a heathland hill, and a Chinook helicopter has risen up from below us. Again, we turned heel and left the area. FAST!

The general theme is, if Rosie doesn't like something, she goes. Quickly!! ;-)

 

[YorksG]

Surely this is one of the weirdest!

You could be right I had forgotten about her, till sister reminded me, but then it is a long time ago! It was in the late '70's when it was quite legal to keep a lion in your house There was a low railing round the garage roof, but wouldn't have stopped your average moggy never mind a full grown lioness. The house she lived in was next to the road and her favourite window was overlooking passers by. I do wonder what happened to her when the legislation changed and you had to have proper facillities to keep exotics. I don't think our current lot of horses would cope with hacking past her, but the brilliant old ride and drive gelding we had back then had seen it, done it, sewn the Tshirt and edited the video

 

[KirstieH]

Absolutely brilliant thread...delayed the hoovering!!! Besides meeting Silage Tractors, Bin Lorry etc and other agri machinery tending to belt around the area like Lewis Hamliton, all was very tame....until whilst out on a TREC POR event - met a whole petting zoo through which we had to ride and my normally level headed 18 year old mare LOST HER LIFE at the ostriches!!!Would not go near them...rearing, spinning - lots of fun...so top tip, avoid the Ostriches!!!