Horrible brat!

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Can't actually believe this but on hack today I was trotting down road of parked cars could see some kids playing down side of road, a car was approaching and slowing for me,just as a got parallel with the kids and near car,one kid jumped in road in front of my horse waving arms and yelling at my horse then ran back to mates laughing. 'luckily' because the car had already slowed for me it didnt hit the kid and my horse only spooked a bit so didn't hit parked cars. What a horrible brat purposely scaring a horse to try and cause an accident. I really can't believe that just happened wtf I have had negative /confrontations from people before who obviously hate horse riders but never a child!
 
Some kids think it funny to spook a horse and may well do it for a 'dare' in front of their mates. Kids don't think of the consequences at such times. I am always weary of children and would wait till the road is clear both ways before going past a group of them. This happened to me once where children were regularly waiting for the school bus. The second time, I rode straight at the culprit and told him I could flatten him with my horse if I wanted to so he had better keep away from us. He looked petrified and I never had any more trouble. It was in the good old days mind, probably would have got me into hot water now. Glad you are ok.
 
Few years back on a busy road at school time, kid ran up behind me and smacked my Po on the Bum, fortunately he just shot forward and didn't kick the stupid child, **** knows where it's parent was, needless to say my language wasn't very appropriate for outside a school. NOA
 
Last year I had some horrible brats attempt to hit my horse with a stick as we passed them, I got my horse a safe distance away and then turned around and told them in no uncertain times that my schooling whip was longer than their stick and would hurt more as would his hooves. Horrid brats.
 
What a horrible thing to happen! Kids in groups quite often seem to share the same brain cell for the day, and leave the rest at home! Even quite ordinary, reasonably sensible children can turn monumentally stupid in groups.

I passed some similar ones on a hack a few months ago. I could see them nudging each other and hear them daring each other to "shout boo and scare that horse!" As I drew level with them, one jumped up in the air and yelled boo. Thankfully, Billy merely treated said child to a withering look of utter contempt.

Mind you, I nearly had a heart attack two weekends ago, to find a completely unsupervised child with their front bicycle wheel parked between Billy's back legs when I stopped to open a gate. I will admit I had paused to have a drink before opening the gate, but when I stopped there was no one in sight, and I could see the bridle path across a whole field behind me, so I have no idea where she materialised from. Telling her politely that it was very unsafe to stop so close to a horse's back end just elicited a blank stare, followed by "I'm waiting for my dad." Thank goodness for Billy being Billy, and not reacting at all. We left her at the gate and had a good gallop across the next field to make sure she wouldn't catch up again!

I've also had kids try to push each other into my horse on the bridle path, again unsupervised. It's really frightening to think of the damage we could do to someone's child, because they're so oblivious to the danger they're putting themselves in, and they're wandering about without any supervision. It's a shame, because I do think it's nice that children can go enjoy the countryside without adults always looking over their shoulders, but the lack of a sense of self-preservation is really terrifying sometimes.
 
The most bizarre one we had was nasty child banging it's micr scooter behind Sis' big ID, about 200 yards from the end of our lane, a few years ago. Sis used her best teacher voice to tell him off, so we continued on our merry way, only for said childs mother to run behind us (in her pj's) to complain about us upsetting her "little boy", a child who was far too young to be on the road without an adult supervising him. She said that we should have gone to the door to speak to her, not spoken to the child, not sure she would have appreciated 16.2 ID up the garden path, mind you she had "drink taken", which presumably why the child was unsupervised!
 
The oddest kid I ever met was when I was doing pony rides at a fete with my little pony and the brat ran up to the pony peered under his tail and screamed 'look mummy, there's a HOLE', mummy smiled fondly at the kid who then tried to stick her fingers up his bum! Shocked pony booted the kid, cue mummy screaming like a banshee and clutching her perverted brat to her ample chest. Advised mummy to get a grip of her weirdo and control of her unacceptable behaviour! It was a long time ago but I still think it was the most peculiar thing for a kid to do.
 
I was riding a trail and saw a group of kids I thought might be trouble. But I also thought, I'm not gonna let these kids force me to change plans. So I continued on. When I passed them, they wandered after me, then one of them ran straight up my horse's bum shrieking. Obviously some kind of stupid dare. Horse scooted forward, but easily came back because she's a pretty tolerant creature. I am less so; I spun her around and charged at the feral children, shouting some choice words. Nobody sticks around with 1200lbs of Shire-X bearing down on their a$$, and they dashed off in the opposite direction in a hurry.
 
planete said:
Some kids think it funny to spook a horse and may well do it for a 'dare' in front of their mates... The second time, I rode straight at the culprit and told him I could flatten him with my horse if I wanted to so he had better keep away from us. He looked petrified and I never had any more trouble.
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I had a similar experience, also in the good old days. Marty (an ex-racer) and I were in the field doing some flatwork on our own. 3 boys on bikes appeared and before long thought it would be fun to ride their bikes at us to try and scare him. He wasn't scared, just annoyed.

I trotted him up to the other end of the field and turned him around to face them. I could feel he was up for it, so we charged at them. The idiot boys watched us coming and didn't move. I think they thought we'd bail. We didn't. I let Marty get as close to them as he wanted (which was very close!) and let him decide when to turn. They took off after that and never bothered us again.

I wasn't that much older than the boys at the time. And it was 3 against 1. I knew 16.2 of annoyed, dragon-breathing horse bearing down on them was the only way I could get them to stop harassing us. Wouldn't do it now, of course.
 
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