Impressive or stupid?

[Time for Tea]

It may be legal, I would not do it, for all the reasons above.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

What people don’t realize no horse is completely bombproof they are flight animals. A lot of the time the bombproof horses are just shut down by training. You never know when a horse could get spooked. It’s was a stupid thing to do.

What a load of rubbish!

I have had several horses who were absolutely foot perfect in traffic. They certainly weren't shut down in any way.
Admittedly they each had something they disliked but they certainly wouldn't have been jumping around in the middle of the road.
One disliked goats above her head, one ran away from a dried hydrangea head as it blew towards her, another was worried by pegs rattling on a washing line at fetlock height behind a hedge and one (many, many years ago) shied at steam jets coming from a mill wall. They all understood traffic and behaved accordingly.
Actually I can't think.of anything that the Welsh Section A allowed to trouble her.

That said, I wouldn't have crossed the road like that if there was a safer route because I don't trust drivers to do the right thing

 

[cauda equina]

Cars don't spook at traffic, cars still get run into at junctions
I wouldn't risk it either, however trustworthy the horse

 

[PeterNatt]

Jambarissa! I would love to see the video so please let me have a link to it.
I used to ride my horse by itself in Central London and would merrilly cross Park Lane at the roundabout (before we got the signalled crossing point) at Hyde Park Corner. I would stop all 4 lanes of traffic and then go accross.
Some horses are 100% bombproof/spookproof and I was lucky to own one that never reacted to anything. Ibn my mind they are worth their weight in gold if one wants to hack about.

 

[blitznbobs]

Stupid and impressive are not mutually exclusive of course

 

[Jambarissa]

The video is only shared with friends not public so I wouldn't share it.

It looked a lot like this one which is public (and had been shared round my group previously, it may have inspired her).

Note in the comments on this one they state that they have absolutely no choice other than to cross there.

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[Lois Lame]

My hubby goes mad at me if we go down home (Croydon) because the only way to get across the road is to walk into the middle, wait for traffic and then get to the other side. We were even taught how to do it safely! If you wait for a clear road, you'll be there forever! That is on foot of course.

I was driving home from the paddock one winter night, in the dark of course, in a lot of traffic (it would have been peak hour traffic, maybe about or 6 or 7 o'clock) when my headlights caught a woman and her (presumably) daughter in the middle of the road, waiting for the traffic on the other side to clear. I couldn't believe it. I gasped. How did they not die? Okay, I guess they weren't actually in front of the cars, they were smack-bang in the middle of the road, on that illuminated-by-my-headlights broken white line, but they must have been wondering what on earth mess had they got themselves into.

 

[Maesfen]

I was driving home from the paddock one winter night, in the dark of course, in a lot of traffic (it would have been peak hour traffic, maybe about or 6 or 7 o'clock) when my headlights caught a woman and her (presumably) daughter in the middle of the road, waiting for the traffic on the other side to clear. I couldn't believe it. I gasped. How did they not die? Okay, I guess they weren't actually in front of the cars, they were smack-bang in the middle of the road, on that illuminated-by-my-headlights broken white line, but they must have been wondering what on earth mess had they got themselves into.

Lol, that's my hubby's reaction but when you're brought up to do it from about ten, then it's second nature to me even though it's sixty years plus from when I had to do it every day for school and after for work. Have to admit, I don't miss having to do it but if I ever get to town, it still comes naturally much to his horror.

 

[J&S]

In the early 70's I rode a horse on Wimbledon Common, I did once ride round Robin Hood roundabout to get to Richmond Park. Not sure I would do it now! It sounds like the person in the video is making the right moves but also that it is an uneccessary risk as there is a crossing just a while further up. Just something to flash and shock on social media.

 

[shanti]

I would never put my horse, or other people, at risk like that if there was a safer option.

 

[Sossigpoker]

What people don’t realize no horse is completely bombproof they are flight animals. A lot of the time the bombproof horses are just shut down by training. You never know when a horse could get spooked. It’s was a stupid thing to do.

SOME horses are shut down , that's true.
You see videos of people waving tarp and plastic bags at their horses until the horse just accepts it. This is learned helplessness and abuse, not desensitised or training.

My boy used to be a bolter , the smallest thing would set him off. He's still reactive but as long as I remain calm , he remains calm. I can feel him tense /his heart rate go up , but he will listen to and trust me as long as I remain calm. This is a trained horse , not a shut down horse.
He would probably cope in the traffic described but there's no way on earth I'd put him and myself through that. You're literally trusting your life to semi-intelligent mouth breathers behind the wheel of a car.
Why the actual fook would I want to do that?

This is a stupid thing to do , not because of my horse, but because of the average utter moron who gets behind a wheel these days .