NeilM
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Oh, you want to watch that. It happened to me once and I got all dizzy and had to sit down for a bit
I am very much in tune with my pony: Act first, think later, with an option to leave out the second bit.
Odd things you've found while hacking?
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Oh, you want to watch that. It happened to me once and I got all dizzy and had to sit down for a bit
I am very much in tune with my pony: Act first, think later, with an option to leave out the second bit.
Farma
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Not out hacking but whilst walking my dog i found a woman drowning herself in a lake - luckily she is ok now!
Doncella
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A dismantled wheelbarrow which I later collected in my Frontera and reassembled and (often) a one winged yellow hammer which I kept picking up and putting back in the hedge over a period of about a year which is a year longer than it might have lived without me there to keep saving it.
Doncella
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Hahahah these are so funny! I have read every single one! Especially the ferrett, the poo, the streaker and the vibrator!!
Not riding but I seen the village bike shagging yet another man on the football field while putting jumps up in the arena.
I have found a mattress and half a cat in the horses field
I have had to wait til a man finished changing his babys nappy in the middle of the bridleway.
There is often a large group of people who reenact some sort of viking war in the woods often screaming there heads off killing each other. Horse actually pooed himself one day to find a 'dead' viking sprawled across the path!!
I also came across a perfectly layed out licence plate on a grass verge
Just seen this, I too regularly used to meet a streaker in a wood just outside Bradford, Fagley I think it was and here in Wales Robin Hood and his merry men terrorise the woods round the university. I nearly flattened one once galloping up the track when this idiot wielding some sort of pikestaff jumped out at me, the horse didn't even break stride and he jumped back into the undergrowth pretty sharpish.
Doncella
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Crows or kites or buzzards, we get a lot of skulls on their own round here but I did find an entire badgers skeleton, what I thought was an old door mat was its pelt.
Rose Folly
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Just like Mavis C. Three of us trotting along an old hedged drove road. Car parked on it, bouncing visibly, windows all completely steamed up. We quietly filed by. Round a bend in the track came a very PC family on bikes, Mum, Dad, the kids, father giving a loud "Oh look, there's a lesser spotted flycatcher" lecture to the uninterested kids. Cut off in his prime as he saw the car. "Oh look", said one of my friends, "There's A Red Hot Corsa - mating".
Allover
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Oh oh oh i forgot, i found one of my cats while out hacking one day, he was only 4 weeks old and came trotting across the road mewing at me, i jumped off scooped him up shoved him down my jacket (it was hovvering just above freezing!) and brought him home, he is now a year old, naughty and full of his own importance!!
For those of you intersted he is on you tube, look for Moritz cat jump fail!!! V V V Funny!
For those of you intersted he is on you tube, look for Moritz cat jump fail!!! V V V Funny!
lillith
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Not as unusual as some of the previous posts but I found six breezeblocks once. Sounds fairly normal except it was granite county right up on the great flat lode so no roade for at least 2 miles in every direction. And they were in/under a gorse bush. Which I fell in trying to remount an unimpressed left behind pony after doing a gate. Who leaves breeze blocks in a gorse bush miles from anywhere? and why did I have to land in the gorse bush one the breeze blocks rather than in the nice soft braken that surrounded it?
Fransurrey
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Not riding, but it was on a byway...
We sometimes go greenlaning in the dark, to see owls and badgers (yeah we're odd, I can take it, lol!). However, one night in the pouring rain, we came across a Landrover blocking the byway. As we got closer, we realised that in front of the Landie was a mattress. A proper double mattress, complete with a duvet and two people under it! They weren't shagging and appeared to be trying to sleep! She was wearing underwear and was lay next to him at any rate.
We've never yet understood WHY anybody would want to sleep in the middle of a byway, in the pouring rain, in December! No tent, nuffink...and they say I'M odd...
ETA: Just seen the post about the fox skull. Out walking this summer, me and OH found half a fox head, complete with all the fur. It was perfectly preserved. Presumably said fox had been got by a combine whilst napping or something and the hot sun had preserved the skin and fur. I was fascinated by it!
We sometimes go greenlaning in the dark, to see owls and badgers (yeah we're odd, I can take it, lol!). However, one night in the pouring rain, we came across a Landrover blocking the byway. As we got closer, we realised that in front of the Landie was a mattress. A proper double mattress, complete with a duvet and two people under it! They weren't shagging and appeared to be trying to sleep! She was wearing underwear and was lay next to him at any rate.
We've never yet understood WHY anybody would want to sleep in the middle of a byway, in the pouring rain, in December! No tent, nuffink...and they say I'M odd...
ETA: Just seen the post about the fox skull. Out walking this summer, me and OH found half a fox head, complete with all the fur. It was perfectly preserved. Presumably said fox had been got by a combine whilst napping or something and the hot sun had preserved the skin and fur. I was fascinated by it!
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MICHAELA8228
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Jeez!!!!! A dead HUMAN body??????
kittykatcat
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LOVING this thread! It has made my day at work! Well i must live in a very boring part of the country - I always find pairs of shoes...not together but a way apart up the road - i wonder what people must think 'oh i'm bored of this left shoe, i'm going to toss it out the window, oh and now i'm bored of my right show, that can go as well'??!! Also had a man with a bush on his head who said he was training....funny thing is i'm not near any MOD land and there was no one else around?!?!!
Kokopelli
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A paddling pool! Needless to say we tested my ponies bombproofness by jumping it
arizonahoney
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Morris men!
NeilM
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Dancing or drinking?
I thinks that's the only two things I've ever seen Morris Men do.
horsecrazy25
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Prams, baby bottles just very un-usual things, yesterday went out hacking and all the trees were covered in string it was really weird!! x
it was really weird!! x
arizonahoney
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Doing the stick and bells dance... Glad they weren't doing the hanky dance as my horse would have thrown a strop!
Dteccytiv
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We found a pair of bright red underpants, on top of a post in a local woods once. We wondered what sort of person would've found them and left them up there, i know that i certainly wouldn't have touched them.
cindars
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Friend and I found a guinea pig which had been dumped, she managed to catch him and as we wondered what to do with him a car hoved into view we asked if they had a container for said gp. and they said we know a lady who rescues small animals so a result there. Going through Devils Dyke a group of people re-enacting (we think) the troubles in Glenco bit alarming on a misty morning, someone flying a kite whilst laying across the bridle path in long grass, some very odd things actually in TheDyke especially near Hallowen and the usual underwear. Friend also found a young lad in a car but he had actually finished himself off.
Paint it Lucky
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Love this thread!
I once found a baby bird that had fallen into the middle of the track I was riding on. SO hopped of horse to try and catch it and put it back ionto the hedgerow so it didn't get stood on, the fledgling was trying to hop away from me in one direction whilst horse was trying to spook away to the other! Managed to ctach it and put it back to safety eventually though.
Once I was cantering along a field boundary that had a ditch with a woods behind it on one side. Saw something abit strange that I assumed was a bush sticking out of the ditch. Wasn't until I got almost right up to it that I realised it was a man, fully decked out in camoflague gear with face paints, the lot on (he was so well disguised you would never have known), and also holding a large rifle which scared me quite a lot!
And one time I was trotting down a track, we turned a corner when suddenly a man, dressed entirely in flourescent yellow leapt up from lying in the heather at the side of the path. My horse stopped dead and I went flying over the top of his head! Fortunately I managed to keep hold of the reins and as my horse is a good boy he stood by me rather than trying to run off or tread on me. The man gave me the wierdest, creepiest smile then walked off a sif nothing had happened! I'm still not sure if the man were just a cyclist having a nap who I'd disturbed (though very strange place to nap among a load of gorse bushes and heather), or a rapist who was deliberately trying to get me off my horse, hoping it would bolt and leave me behind, well I don't like to think about it really! Was a very scary experience and I quickly got back on my horse and trotted very swiftly home afterwards!
I once found a baby bird that had fallen into the middle of the track I was riding on. SO hopped of horse to try and catch it and put it back ionto the hedgerow so it didn't get stood on, the fledgling was trying to hop away from me in one direction whilst horse was trying to spook away to the other! Managed to ctach it and put it back to safety eventually though.
Once I was cantering along a field boundary that had a ditch with a woods behind it on one side. Saw something abit strange that I assumed was a bush sticking out of the ditch. Wasn't until I got almost right up to it that I realised it was a man, fully decked out in camoflague gear with face paints, the lot on (he was so well disguised you would never have known), and also holding a large rifle which scared me quite a lot!
And one time I was trotting down a track, we turned a corner when suddenly a man, dressed entirely in flourescent yellow leapt up from lying in the heather at the side of the path. My horse stopped dead and I went flying over the top of his head! Fortunately I managed to keep hold of the reins and as my horse is a good boy he stood by me rather than trying to run off or tread on me. The man gave me the wierdest, creepiest smile then walked off a sif nothing had happened! I'm still not sure if the man were just a cyclist having a nap who I'd disturbed (though very strange place to nap among a load of gorse bushes and heather), or a rapist who was deliberately trying to get me off my horse, hoping it would bolt and leave me behind, well I don't like to think about it really! Was a very scary experience and I quickly got back on my horse and trotted very swiftly home afterwards!
jester_ben
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We spotted a Bambi (xD) and a shoe hanging of a tree
howengold
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Last week I found a cannibis plant in a pot in the middle of the track we gallop on...I nearly died as Sov shot to the side where there is a 20' drop in to the river...eeeek!
A few years back I was out hacking with my daughters and we came across a naked jogger !!!!!!!!! As soon as I spotted him I clapped my hands across two of their eyes and had no reins in my hands so my mare decided to trot off...the man disappeared into the hedge and then came out in shorts.....I didn't know where to look lol
A few years back I was out hacking with my daughters and we came across a naked jogger !!!!!!!!! As soon as I spotted him I clapped my hands across two of their eyes and had no reins in my hands so my mare decided to trot off...the man disappeared into the hedge and then came out in shorts.....I didn't know where to look lol