Horses Fouling On The Pavements In Portslade

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DarrenUK1972 said:
It seems some people need to grow up and stop being so stupid over this matter with sarcasm and finding it funny. How would you people feel if you find a pile of horse's crap right outside your garden gate if you live in a house where you have to climb over your wall to leave and to get back?
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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.
 
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 🤷
 
AdorableAlice said:
Be grateful it was not Ted The Twit who deposited upon the pavement. 1 Ted poo = 1 wheelbarrow full. I've never had a horse produce such humungous poo as he does.
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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.
 
DarrenUK1972 said:
Message to ycbm. The horses shouldn't be on the pavements for one thing because even though the roads are dangerous, it's also more of a danger having people riding horses on the pavements. A horse can get spooked and kick its front legs in the air and kick a pedestrian in the head by accident or trample over a pedestrian. Little children are more at risk of getting killed if this happens. Horses should never be on the pavements. IT's bad enough when there's people riding bicycles on the pavements and some of them ride too fast and whiz around corners like Bodie and Doyle. Yes, I know CI5 never rode bicycles.
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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 said:
At least he didn't talk about underwear.
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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. 💩
 
Goldie's mum said:
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. 💩
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Well if those are the sort of things he complains about, he probably sees poogate as a hanging offence.
 
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!!

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DarrenUK1972 said:
It seems some people need to grow up and stop being so stupid over this matter with sarcasm and finding it funny. How would you people feel if you find a pile of horse's crap right outside your garden gate if you live in a house where you have to climb over your wall to leave and to get back?
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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.
 
DarrenUK1972 said:
It seems some people need to grow up and stop being so stupid over this matter with sarcasm and finding it funny. How would you people feel if you find a pile of horse's crap right outside your garden gate if you live in a house where you have to climb over your wall to leave and to get back?
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MagicMelon said:
Also I DO have horse poop in my driveway and on my road outside my house,
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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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