Gallop_Away
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Back in the office after a week off this thread has made my morning 
Anyone fancy organising a fun ride past Darren's house
Anyone fancy organising a fun ride past Darren's house
Horses Fouling On The Pavements In Portslade
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OrangeAndLemon
Afraid of exorcism
Oh I wish they would. My rhubarb really needs it but I have to bring it home from the yard which makes the car smell. So frustrating as there are off road hacking routes just a short walk away but the horses don't hack on the roads to get there!
I think you're talking to the wrong people Darren. This forum is for riders who already know how horses legs move (but appreciate you explaining they sometimes wave them in the air) we don't intend to ride on pavements. One reason is that traffic can tend to feel there is no need to slow down to 10mph and allow room if the horse is on the pavement instead of on the road.
I realise that for wheelchair users and those pushing prams this is a problem but it is rare and has been previously explained above.
Cloball
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There's often ponies going past my back gate and I don't have the luxury of a pavement I'm always checking as I need some fertiliser for my roses, no luck yet 
Equibrit
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Darren needs to find something better to do than poo patrol.
Ratface
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Ted is A National Treasure! He can do no wrong, wherever he poos.
He should have Staff. With wheelbarrows and shovels and the necessary boots to enable the transfers of said poo to shovel.
Ratface
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Oh, what a shame - I've been having a good giggle for the last thirty minutes!
meggymoo
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When I was little, my Grandad used to run out with the bucket and shovel when the milkman came round with his horse drawn milk float.
Come on, come on, surely someone is going to say it? No? Ok, I prefer custard on my rhubarb.......
Come on, come on, surely someone is going to say it? No? Ok, I prefer custard on my rhubarb.......
Parrotperson
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just so you know, police officers on horseback can and do ride on pavements. They are allowed to do so and I've seen them do it a lot. Whether they go back and pick up poo is another matter.
I would also say you should (as a non police officer) NOT ride on pavements with the exception of in an emergency, when all bets are off and if I need to use the pavement to get out of the way of danger I will. If the worst happened I'd go back and get the offending poo.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
At least he didn't talk about underwear.
suestowford
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How do we know how big the horse was in the tunnel
I have a 13 hand pony here who does giant poos. He'd fit through a lowish tunnel, and he'd probably poo in it too.Maybe a giant poo?
But it wasn't us, honest.
Glitter's fun
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Not something he's interested in, thankfully.
OP needs serious on-line security advice. He has Twitter, FB, Youtube all under the same name & his real d.o.b. & he is a regular contributor to the letters page of his local newspaper, always giving his full name and the street he lives in.
Complaining is his thing!
(Several on litter & bin collections, tree surgeons didn't clear up all the branches, police didn't come when he told them children threw snowballs at him, pizza too thin, an old lady was rude to him.....that's where I gave up - very depressing)
If poogate ends up in the paper I shall report back.
meggymoo
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Well if those are the sort of things he complains about, he probably sees poogate as a hanging offence.Not something he's interested in, thankfully.
OP needs serious on-line security advice. He has Twitter, FB, Youtube all under the same name & his real d.o.b. & he is a regular contributor to the letters page of his local newspaper, always giving his full name and the street he lives in.
Complaining is his thing!
(Several on litter & bin collections, tree surgeons didn't clear up all the branches, police didn't come when he told them children threw snowballs at him, pizza too thin, an old lady was rude to him.....that's where I gave up - very depressing)
If poogate ends up in the paper I shall report back.
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
It's a shame he's gone really. It could've been fun.
JBM
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I get so sad every time I see this thread reappear but no Darren
Widgeon
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I'm so disappointed now....I saw a new post here and scuttled back eagerly for a new chapter, but OP is still not back :-(
Shoei
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I just want to know who Bodie and Doyle are???!?!? Do they live near Portslade Sainsburys???
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
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Pippity
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Well, now I feel old.
Widgeon
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I hope everyone is reassured to know that the press is expending adequate column inches on this weighty issue
www.leicestermercury.co.uk
Villagers poo-poo 'ridiculous' horse fouling complaint
Residents of the village near Hinckley were quick to comment after someone kicked up a stink
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
I hope everyone is reassured to know that the press is expending adequate column inches on this weighty issue
Villagers poo-poo 'ridiculous' horse fouling complaint
Residents of the village near Hinckley were quick to comment after someone kicked up a stink
Has Darren gone on holiday to Leicester?
j1ffy
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This thread has been highly entertaining - I'm not sure 'Darren' is a particularly experienced user of social media!
Even more amusingly, I'm local to Lambourn and this appeared on the local FB group. You can imagine the responses to that one!!
Even more amusingly, I'm local to Lambourn and this appeared on the local FB group. You can imagine the responses to that one!!
Widgeon
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tehehehe
MagicMelon
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Darren, why would you think to post on an international forum about a very local issue? As others have said, head to your local facebook page and post there. Most of us dont even know where you're talking about and 99% of us would never ride on pavements so we dont need a non-equestrian person preaching to us about how we should ride on the road.
Also I DO have horse poop in my driveway and on my road outside my house, its my own horses ones and I'll merrily scoop it up and chuck it on my roses when I can be bothered! Its horse poo, literally grass. Its not remotely as disgusting as dog poo which is literally everywhere and a far bigger issue.
skint1
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So, what I need to know is... are the horses of Portslade considering their pooing choices a bit more carefully after Darren's rant?
Glitter's fun
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Darren's abysmal online security leads me to believe he doesn't live in Portslade and is in an upstairs flat, without garden or gate, about a mile and a half from the poo.
He seems to patrol an area of Portslade to protect the little people from the evils of undiligent council workers and incontinent horses, in the manner of a pavements' Equalizer. *
Edited to add *For the youngsters among Darren's fans , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equalizer_(1985_TV_series)
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