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I'm not sure where to start;
perhaps with the owner of the local unlicensed RS who escorts rides without a hat. Fortunately she does insist that her customers wear a hat and most seem to wear hi-viz.
 
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Pearlsasinger said:
I'm not sure where to start;
perhaps with the owner of the local unlicensed RS who escorts rides without a hat. Fortunately she does insist that her customers wear a hat and most seem to wear hi-viz.
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We have one of those too and she has her GSD running along loose next to her on the main roads with a string of kids on ponies behind her, she doesn't wear a hat and no hi viz but some of the kids wear hi viz and all wear hats!
 
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The stupidest thing I've DONE is get off, put the reins over the horses head, while we had a break, then get back on and wonder "Monty, why are you not going the way I want!?" Turns out...the reins had twisted and therefore I had backwards steering! Luckily it was a nice sedate ride, but gosh XD I was so embarrassed!

I've seen too many stupid things to name!
 
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Does the most stupid suggestion count?

Some years ago I went to Appleby Fair with my then husband. Lots of things there to qualify for this thread! However, I rather fell in love with a sad little donkey foal tethered by his owner's van. :( The owner tried to persuade husband & me to buy it. We didn't, partly because there was no room in my life for an equine back then, but also because encouraging the trade just means he'd breed more tragic donkey foals.

But here's the stupid bit: I told the man we can't buy this foal, we've no way of transporting him home. This is how the conversation went:

Man: How are YOU getting home then?

Me: In a car.

Man: What sort of car?

Me: An estate.

Man: There you are then! Just put it in back!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

And no, he wasn't joking.
 
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2 things are = first for me. one is people standing on horses backs or saddles in adverts and the other is a local guy who breaks horses to ride, he always puts blinkers on them and also drives his car whilst leading them ,lead rope through the window ,apparently to get them used to roadwork!
 
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When i was little and was learning how to tack up a pony, i was taught to always put the saddle on last, and to take it off first "incase the pony escapes, as you don't want it to run away with it's saddle on."

I always thought this was hillarious, until a few years back. One of the liveries on the yard i worked on always used to put his saddle on his horse and leave him in his stable whilst he faffed around before finishing and getting on. He never shut the door properly. Usually his horse was an angel, but on this one occasion he walked straigh out his stable, in just his saddle, galloped up the hill to his field (with everyone from the yard in hot persute) where we all watched him roll in the distance, and then have a great game of 'catch me if you can.' At this point, i decided the earlier suggestion wasn't quite as amusing as it had first seemed!!
 
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1) a guy trying to stop his horse from running off by grabbing the stirrup leather and looking surprised when he was left holding the stirrup leather and the horse was off down the road.

2) Also saw a girl who got thrown from her horse, so she then grabbed it by the ear(?) and smacked it on the shoulder and was then surprised when it ran off.
 
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FionaM12 said:
Does the most stupid suggestion count?

Some years ago I went to Appleby Fair with my then husband. Lots of things there to qualify for this thread! However, I rather fell in love with a sad little donkey foal tethered by his owner's van. :( The owner tried to persuade husband & me to buy it. We didn't, partly because there was no room in my life for an equine back then, but also because encouraging the trade just means he'd breed more tragic donkey foals.

But here's the stupid bit: I told the man we can't buy this foal, we've no way of transporting him home. This is how the conversation went:

Man: How are YOU getting home then?

Me: In a car.

Man: What sort of car?

Me: An estate.

Man: There you are then! Just put it in back!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

And no, he wasn't joking.
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Hmmm, I sympathise! Somebody suggested that I moved my shettie using my corsa. I've also lost count of people suggesting using the transit...
 
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I once saw someone longreining their pony and they had roller blades on their feet (the person that is) I suppose that could be fun as long as the pony doesnt tank off, then you'd be buggered.
 
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At the yard were I used to share a Horse. You had to drive up a massive hill. Either side of the hill, were fields. A woman used to to leave her headcollar outside the paddock, catch the Horse. Then drive up the hill, holding the leadrope through the window. She said it was to much effort to walk down the hill and back. How she never had an accident I don't know!
 
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Horsesforever1 said:
a local guy who breaks horses to ride, he always puts blinkers on them and also drives his car whilst leading them ,lead rope through the window ,apparently to get them used to roadwork!
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I've done this, minus the blinkers. Only in secure yards / fields, not on roads though. Not sure if it's related, but my horses are all very traffic proof :D
 
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JFTD said:
I like that idea, sounds like a good alternative equine sport :p
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It already exists....i have seen footage from another country where someone rides around a set of showjumps towing a person on roller blades, who then also goes over the jumps with ramps. I have tried to find the videos on the internet before but cant find them now!!
 
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anothernewbie said:
It already exists....i have seen footage from another country where someone rides around a set of showjumps towing a person on roller blades, who then also goes over the jumps with ramps. I have tried to find the videos on the internet before but cant find them now!!
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:D awesome. It's not really any different to ski jorring etc. I'm praying for snow so I can harness my highland up to a sledge - if I could ski or blade without landing on my butt (without equine help!) I would be doing them too ;)

eta- I've never seen anyone doing anything stupider than things I've done myself. Though I have yet to fit a bit upside down, and I always use a lip strap on my cob's pelham (which is for show only). And there are some reasonably common place management practices which I would say are stupider than all the entertainingly eccentric (possibly dangerous, but probably no worse than eventing :p) quirkiness that people are posting!
 
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