Man with pooping horse ticketed for littering

It's in Texas! Phew
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Someone complained about it where I live - I live ina village in Leeds and we have a vllage magazine - people wrote in to complain and wanted us to put nappies on our horses, luckily it never got taken any further, but seriously even if the horses let you, could you imaine how much that would cost everytime you wanted to go hacking?!
 
Good grief!

In the olden days of the 1980's people used to look hopefully at the back end of my pony when she hacked past their house! Hopeful that they'd get a free shovel of manure to put on their compost heap
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And that was in Hillingdon in Middlesex - in a well built up area, too. No one would have dreamed of complaining. Mind you, the Rag and Bone man was still driving around the streets in his horse drawn cart then and people were more tolerant generally.
 
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It's in Texas! Phew
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Not so phew - I got stopped by the police once after my mare had pooped in town
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rural Cornwall, would you believe
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He told me "if my horse was a dog I would be fined"
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and that he drove a motorbike and horse poo was dangerous to motorbike riders as they can skid on them!. When I told my OH he replied that he also rides a bike and they have sticky out bars for steering
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Wouldn't mind so much but where she had pooped was in a small town and most Sunday mornings the streets are littered with broken bottles, vomit and pee from all the drunks the night before!
 
These days, though, people don't know the difference between chicken and horse manure. They wouldn't know how to make their own compost, or why some manures are too rich for certain plants. They just want to nip out to Wyevales and buy 3 bags of multi-purpose for a tenner and dump it on the flower beds. Why isn't there a rolling eyes smiley, on here?!?
 
I'm in a rural Cornish town too, and got scowled at once for allowing my pony to foul on the road, a neighbour came out smiling saying could he put it on his roses
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What utter crap from the Police force. What about their flaming mounted police! Oh I forgot they are Police so they have exceptions. What utter bollocks. Why should any horse have to wear a nappy? I know they brought a similar by law into force in Blackpool recently for the traps that service the tourists. Mmm let me think about that one, stop the feckin tourists then. If there were no tourists there would be no feckin traps to take them tours up and down the promenade. I know it's a slightly different subject but it's still about horse crap.
Gosh this makes my feckin blood boil. I am in a right psd off mood tonight anyway so I am not venting at anyone on here, just about the subject.
Why should any horse rider/driver have to clear up after their horse? What about all the feckin filth pumped out of the exhausts of vehicles every day. You know the stuff you cannot actually really see or put one's foot or tyre through. But the stuff that actually causes more damage to people's health and the environment in general. Oh I forgot you can't see it can you. Doh! Not so easy to spot now is it than a steaming great big turd out the back of a horse. What about all the dog shite too that gets left on Britain's pavements and elsewhere causing a danger to people's health and making the streets look unsightly? How many times do you see someone having a go at someone walking their dog and letting it crap everywhere and leaving it? Oh but dogs are little see and the owners that allow their dogs to do it are not always that approachable. Far too easy though to confuse a pile of horse shite with dog shite though innit. After all us horse riders don't give a crap about anything now do we?
No let us take the grief that should be given to fuel guzzlers and dog walkers that allow their dogs to foul. You see we are more visible sat high up on our mounts are we not? It is justified that we take the blame for everyone and anything else that decides to litter the environment ( even with that which is mainly unseen).
Gosh this makes me so feckin angry. As for the Police what bloody double standards! Perhaps you should have told him/her to go spend a week with the mounted branch and see how they handle their horses crapping on the roads and pavements too for that matter.
You cannot control where a horse shites as easy as you can for a dog. You take a dog out mainly to have a shite do we not? Ask any owner what they say and it's oh to exercise. No it's not, it's so they don't have to clear up the crap from inside the house or backgarden. Let it crap anywhere else and maybe we will pick it up or maybe we will not. We ride horses for pleasure and exercise. I don't think when I go for ride oh I will take out Doug for walk so he can empty his bowels.
Are there really people out there who exist with less than half a brain? There really must be you know. It is so ethical to strap a nappy to a horse, or equally it is so easy for us riders to jump off our mounts with a carrier bag ( must be biodegradable though so as not to affect the environment with that plastic now) and scoop up the poo to carry home. Now we cannot use normal bins, don't put poo in there. We can't use dog bins as it is horse poo and not dog poo. So we must strap bag to our saddle to take home and put on the muck heap. But sadly by the time we get home the friction of saddle against bag ( as we cannot carry a bag and ride on highways at the same time, shite is heavy) has caused it to rip and the contents have now plip plopped their way all along the road. Still it ain't so messy now as the dollops are that much smaller and will soon wash away.
What a load of bollocks. Talk about a nanny state. People need to grow up. PC has gone absurd both in UK and abroad.
Caz
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