Janetterose
Well-Known Member
sorry - just didn't sound like it! XX
It is illegal to obstruct people and I don't agree with it.
However just because someone does something illegal doesn't give you a carte blanche to drive your car at them.
Regarding antis 'policing' hunts it is an absurd idea because they are so obviously completely biased. Can you imagine the police continually writing to the papers about how awful they think black people are and then trying to police a black area constantly following them round with cameras as they go about their lawful business. The whole idea is completely absurd.
"My young horse is a saint and far too valuable to me to even take her hunting"
Thank God.
If it was blatantly obvious what was going on then why wasn't the law enforced?
It strikes me that the law can't be very effective if people are blatantly hunting and yet cannot be touched.
I didn't see the footage, which is a shame as I am sure it would have been interesting.
Hunt monitors aren't stupid though, they are very good at engineering situations to put hunts, even when acting lawfully, in a bad light. For example I know the Heythrop cover country that takes in many small isolated villages, those who follow in cars quite regularly know that some roads are single track and lead nowhere and don't actually offer much of a view. If you are stupid enough to take your car down some of these lanes and actually encounter the field in the lane then yes, you are stuck there until they find a route off the lane and get the field cleared - they wouldn't anticipate meeting traffic and certainly don't plan for it except when crossing the occasional main road. On those occasions it is quite normal for an outrider to stop the traffic to allow the field to pass safely across the road - and good manners to stop and allow them to do so. Of course the usual hunt monitors who skulk around after the Heythrop aren't locals (because they are massively supported locally) and maybe can't read maps.
Anybody who has to screech to a halt probably isn't concentrating
Bit of a anti-chubby post if you ask me!
I only post here to entertain you
I know EAGLE_DAY is from Lincolnshire and could maybe shed some light on which hunt this was and maybe give them a few tips on road safety?.
I know EAGLE_DAY is from Lincolnshire and could maybe shed some light on which hunt this was and maybe give them a few tips on road safety?.
Indeed I could, but it is you and your abusive friend who appear to need the road safety lesson. There many road users using the public carriageway in different ways. Here we had a lady sensibly holding the traffic up to get horses, hounds and riders - many of whom would have been children - over what is a lethally dangerous road.
Would your reaction have been the same to agricultural machinery, a cycle race or a half-marathon? Or are you forever blinded by your prejudice?