Party goers found in back of horse trailer!

SOS said:
This a lot more common place than you’d think - young farmers do’s and ball car parks are full of trailers that people have gone there in. Pretty sure some shoot wagons aren’t far from this set up either!

Im on the fence about this one - it’s only dangerous to those inside. Drink driving is something I can never agree with, so of course it would be different in the driver was going to drink at the ball and then drive them back. But IME this isn’t the case.
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When I was younger, it was quite common to travel in the trailer with your horse. And we used trailers (and even the odd potato wagon attached to a tractor) to cart kids/teens/party revellers all over the place. Probably not on a major A road...

On the subject of shoot wagons... Sheep trailer with benches in is quite a luxury. ;)

You know, life is a risk.
 
HeresHoping said:
When I was younger, it was quite common to travel in the trailer with your horse. And we used trailers (and even the odd potato wagon attached to a tractor) to cart kids/teens/party revellers all over the place. Probably not on a major A road...

On the subject of shoot wagons... Sheep trailer with benches in is quite a luxury. ;)

You know, life is a risk.
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I remember traveling in the back of an old Rice pony trailer with a pony to get free entry to the showground! I was 15 and grooming for the owner and my parents couldn't afford my entry fee, so the owners travelled me with the pony!.
 
We always used to travel in the trailer with the ponies and if it was a lorry with no living, a partition between the ponies and the children. About 6 of each.

For pony club unmounted rallies the back of an open back land rover, not sure of legal status but possibly not that safe.
 
SEL said:
I thought it was a perfectly sensible form of transport. But I'm of the era where 6 kids on the back seat of a Volvo and another 6 in the boot was considered practical transport.

I tend to think I'm pretty risk averse too ?
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I remember having to sit in the back of the car on someones knee ?
 
Sandstone1 said:
As that was members of the Warwickshire hunt it does not surprise me at all. In answer to how stupid can you get? As stupid as the Warwickshire hunt!
Also as arrogant! One of them can be heard saying we are safer in there than walking officer! The Warwickshire just do not seem to think the law applies to them at all. Out hunting or not.
Think of the carnage that would have happened had there been a accident.
Why not just hire a mini bus or travel in cars like normal people?
Oh wait, its the Warwickshire....
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Do you know them, as I can't see anywhere that it says it was the hunt.....
 
Orangehorse said:
Half the things we did in Young Farmers 40 years ago are probably illegal now.

And most of the people I knew/still know are pillars of society, some even went into the Police!
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Ha! A common misconception that Police are pillars of the community, the biggest tea-leaf I've ever met was a police officer.
 
I’m impressed that the trailer was clean enough for all that finery!

I feel for the police. They are in a lose lose situation here. They need to check the trailers to help prevent theft (which seems to be on the increase) - and once they found the ‘horse that snuck on’ they had to take action. If they hadn’t and anything had happened you can guarantee that the connections to those injured ( or worse) would have bashed the police soundly for not stopping it.

What has changed is that society is generally less willing/able to take responsibility for their actions. So back in the day, if I’d got injured while riding in the tattie trailer, my parents would have held me responsible for climbing in there in the first place. Nowadays parents would sue the farmer.
 
scats said:
This reminds me of a time 20 years ago when we helped my friends mum and her friend move house. They’d hired a van to put their furniture in and me and my friend decided to go in the back and travel on the sofa for the 4 mile journey. Except they’d just piled everything in so we ended up with things falling on us and it was the most terrifying (but hilarious) ten minutes. There was this big unit with drawers and it was threatening to fall on us the whole time.
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Our Brownies and Guides were all transported to and from summer camp in the back of a furniture wagon with all the camping gear in the 70s
 
Up here we have a thing called a blackening. We ‘blacken’ the bride or groom and then cruise around the town drinking and making a lot of noise in a pick up.
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This was my sisters one but I have taken faces out.
For the West mainland ones we go in the back of a transport box pulled by a tractor.

One police officer tried to stop a blackening but fortunately for us tradition won out. It likely isn’t the safest, especially with the drink involved but no one’s seriously hurt themselves yet.

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this is my sister getting blackened on the beach for a bit of context
 
Orangehorse said:
Half the things we did in Young Farmers 40 years ago are probably illegal now.

And most of the people I knew/still know are pillars of society, some even went into the Police!
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I was in young farmers forty years ago too and we did many things that would be considered dodgy now. We were also called wimps by elderly ex young farmers for not getting up to the sort of stuff they did.

If these are young farmers they look remarkably sober even if they are on their way there.
 
I remember children going to market in the sheep trailer as it was safer than being passengers in the cab of the tractor pulling it.
 
I happen to know that they were on there way to the Warwickshire hunt ball. Personally I do not care if they want to risk killing themselves its just another example of hunting people thinking the law does not apply to them... Just like terrier men break the law on quads...
I am neither "po faced" nor do I own any pearls. The hunt ball was at Upton house and if you know the roads in that area its a pretty risky thing to do. I did not put any personal insults in my post, interesting thats what some people resort to.
What would you have said if a group of sabs decided to travel like that?
 
Sandstone1 said:
I happen to know that they were on there way to the Warwickshire hunt ball. Personally I do not care if they want to risk killing themselves its just another example of hunting people thinking the law does not apply to them... Just like terrier men break the law on quads...
I am neither "po faced" nor do I own any pearls. The hunt ball was at Upton house and if you know the roads in that area its a pretty risky thing to do. I did not put any personal insults in my post, interesting thats what some people resort to.
What would you have said if a group of sabs decided to travel like that?
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I would have said it is up to them. I‘m not sure why it is getting you so het up, from the replies on here it seems a very common thing to do and most have no connection to hunting.
 
Sandstone1 said:
I happen to know that they were on there way to the Warwickshire hunt ball. Personally I do not care if they want to risk killing themselves its just another example of hunting people thinking the law does not apply to them... Just like terrier men break the law on quads...
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I don't think so. It might be an example of "riding people thinking the law does not apply to them", as I took a very similar risk before I ever went near a hunt by travelling in the Luton of a lorry full of horses, as many people did. But more likely it's an example of "people who own a suitable trailer,van or lorry think the law doesn't apply to them". It happens all the time. If it hadn't been after dark with the police looking out for rural crime, nobody would have known (unless they were reported by sabs, which would simply have been petty and a waste of police time).
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Blanche said:
I would have said it is up to them. I‘m not sure why it is getting you so het up, from the replies on here it seems a very common thing to do and most have no connection to hunting.
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I am not "het up at all. Its just the fact that the hunting fraternity think they can break the law to suit themselves. I dont care if its a common thing to do or not. In this case it was connected to hunting. I really do not care if people want to risk their lives doing it or are happy for their teenagers to do it. If its ok with you I will post my opinions on here the same as everyone else does. Just because I have my own opinion does not mean I am "het" up. A forum is for people to say what they think. You are welcome to ignore me if you do not agree.
 
Sandstone1 said:
I am not "het up at all. Its just the fact that the hunting fraternity think they can break the law to suit themselves. I dont care if its a common thing to do or not. In this case it was connected to hunting. I really do not care if people want to risk their lives doing it or are happy for their teenagers to do it. If its ok with you I will post my opinions on here the same as everyone else does. Just because I have my own opinion does not mean I am "het" up. A forum is for people to say what they think. You are welcome to ignore me if you do not agree.
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Everyone can post their opinion, that is true. They must then accept that people might think they are getting het up about it and then post that opinion on here.
 
As I child I travelled at least 3 times a week in the Luton of a horse wagon with 6 horses including a stallion. Only the stallion had a partition.

As a teenager my now husband picked me up from school daily on his motorbike. I hitched my skirt up and jumped on with no crash helmet and he gave me a lift home off road.

I can’t say I regret any of it.
 
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