Stupid idiot!! So angry!!

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My mare is barely broken, and so far has been hacked at a walk with another horse, tonight decided we'd go alone with OH on ground walking a little away as a safety measure.

Mare has hi vis tail band and boots, OH has please pass slow and wide hi vis

I had Young Horse CAUTION hi vis

Heard a car come up behind me and slow right down, turned to thank them, as i did the boy racer car, full off laughing lads, accelerated hard, and sped off incredibly close to my mare!!

LUCKILY she just shot forwards and cantered a few paces in panic before calming down, but was on springs, so carried on for a few more minutes and then cut hack short and turned for home.

Why in gods name would anyone think that

A. It was a funny / cool thing to do
B. Even if they thought it would be cool / funny surely people have the sense to realise how dangerous it could have been!

I have worked so so so hard with my mare and we have a lovely bond and i adore her, but this has made me so angry i have a headache and want to go scream at someone.

Rant over, thankyou for reading.
 
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Rude drivers really naff me off..... It would take 5 more seconds of their time to slow down and pass wide.... What could possibly be so important they can't spare 5 seconds?!!!! ARGH.
 
Makes me really angry, these types of people are too thick and small minded to think about the consequences of what they are doing.

Someone i know had an ex police horse, who had lived in all the london traffic and had been in crushes and goodness knows what else- went to live in a quiet country after he had finished in the force.

Some idiot in a sports car decided it would be great to speed up and rev the engine really close- of course the horse wouldnt have bothered, so the driver drove as close as he could, but a bit too close and smashed the horses hocks joints- poor thing had to be shot at the scene, then the man driving wanted to sue the rider for her horse denting his bmw!! :O unbelievable
 
What an ar*e hole, I hope your mare is okay, poor sweetie. I also hope you got the tw*t's reg. number.

Hopefully it will not put your mare off hacking.

Elizabeth was escorting a friend on a young horse that was learning to hack out and she had this idiot mucking her around on a very narrow country lane, getting right up Fany's bum and banging his horn. She stopped Fany in the middle of the lane and just sat there, Fany is totally bombproof and his shouting, tooting and anything else he did didn't bother her; he could not get past due to it being extremely narrow. After 10 mins E. rode on and went into a gate, she told him next time she would get Fany to dump a load on his bonnet. It was childish and bloody minded I know and I told E. off and made her promise not to do it again but I bet that guy doesn't get right up a horse's bum again.

Why do they do that? It is so stupid and dangerous.

Fingers crossed your little girl is happy to go out again.
FDC
 
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was watching a BHS road safety campaign video last night, of this exact same thing. If you could have got the reg number, I'd have reported them. That'd wipe the smile off their snotty noses .

Hope your horse settles back down ok. sm x
 
I am so angry, ive spent so much time breaking in my mare, making sure she is happy, leading her out in traffic, following a horse in traffic, decided to go out in the lovely sun, in very very light traffic, with OH following and someone did that.

It was totally intentional, there was plenty of room to pass. What if she'd seriously hurt me or herself, would he still have driven off and leg my OH to deal with it all!?

Its such a selfish thing to do. I make sure i wear hi vis, i dont ride if its dusky, it was bright sunshine, in hi vis, quiet village type road, and he has to go and do that.
 
I'm so glad that you are all ok, and can fully appreciate how angry and upset you must be feeling.

Unfortunately I think your only 'mistake' is in crediting some members of the motoring public,with the ability to think or reason at all;)

I try to to remember that some motorists are on the same intellectual level as pond life and amoeba.
 
I know how you feel
OH and I were hacking out our 4yr with schoolmaster.
V large tractor came up from behind and chased me on youngster down the country lane.
Driver thought it was very fuinny, laughing at us.
Fortunately managed to stay on and get out of his way up a driveway.
For about 50yds he was about 5 metres behind us and barely slowed down
Unfortuantely didn't get reg no but I know which firm he works for.
His time will come!!!!!
 
Id picked the quietest road, and during the day and i think on all previous hacks the only cars ive seen down that road are parked ones.

She was fine, we carried on for a few minutes and went home, she started to settle but was a little springy still but my head was pounding, mixture of stress and anger!
 
We have a horse whose very quick at kicking any car anywhere near him, he actually goes out of his way to boot them. A guy at work was riding him one day and heard a car behind, he held out his arm and asked the car to stop so he could get really far up a driveway as a precaution. The driver ignored him and came past very fast and very close, he then ended with the biggest dent in the side of his car I had ever seen. Luckily the horse was unharmed, but he wouldn't have done it if he could have gotten up a drive away from the car.

Glad you and your mare are okay, I'd have flipped out if it happened to me!
 
I've smacked a fair few cars on the roof wit the other end of my crop out riding. Not 'correct' by any means but it stirs most drivers up enough thinking they've hit something.

Had a few come out and dare to have a go at me. Luckily, on either Hairy [hench gypsy cob] or the hunters [who start at 17.2.... ;)]....that arguement never carried on once they're out the car!!!

I try and take the number plate if I can...but most situations mean you never have time to do so sadly :(
 
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Well it's over ten years since I last rode out on the road and it was bad enough then - I used to carry a four foot dessage stick and held it the wrong way around so any driver could see the metal ferrule and the white end perilously close to their cellulose - but I still had to hit a few roofs. Luckily I am over six feet and a bloke.

The scenes I've witnessed locally between horse and car lately have to be seen to be believed so personally I think the time has come when riders abandon hacking out - yes, I know all about the Ancient Rights but one's poor horse only has one set of legs.

Personally, it would be doing everyone a favour too because if any had hit my mare and I was still breathing - I would have strangled them with their own intestines !
 
Thats horrific! I hope your youngster isn't too bad to hack out next time.However i wouldnt hack out with a "caution young horse" tabard as A) your insurance will proably not cover you and B) a driver can sue you as both can say that inexperienced horses shouldn't be hacked out on the roads and are a potential hazard to other road users
 
get the number plate and report to the police. There is not a lot they can do but will usually issue a warning about driving without care and consideration for other road users.

Instead of these silly 'caution Young Horse' try sticking an 'L' plate on a high viz vest, it works far better as the sort of lads driving in your incident slow down and make rude comments over who is the learner.
It is far more visible than the writing on the vests and everyone knows what an 'L' plate is.
 
Gosh I hope your ok!
We have an idiot driver who goes around in a turquoise jeep type around the country lanes. He'll drive literally AT you at 30mph and go so close to you he's even hit my stirrup! This is why I LOVE cobs, gypsys so bombproof with any traffic, you just stick his fat @rse in the middle of the road :rolleyes: and they soon realise they can't fit past so it forces then to slow down :D gypsy also thinks it's fun to turn around and mini-rear at them and tell them off himself :o oh I do love that pony!
I might also invest in one of those 'polite notice' tabbards as it's my birthday soon so hopefully have a bit of money to spend :D
 
absolute arse*oles they really *iss me off. i have one man shoot path me the other day (luckily wide rioad) windows down music blaring loud no sign of slowing down. really hacks me off. also if i let people past and they don't say thank,s i normally shout 'THANKS YOU MISSERABLE T*ATS' as loud as i can. lol :D
 
I have to say stupid drivers do annoy me however I have recently discovered that it is largely ignorance not done on purpose.
I know to us common sense says to slow down for potential hazards like children near the kerb without parents or cyclists. But I have in the last couple of years been in cars with mainly young men who don't get it. They are likely to not have ever had contact with horses. Statements I have heard:
-But dogs don't get scared of cars why do horses?
-But police horses don't get scared.
-Why are they on the road if they are scared?
None of my friends at uni understood why a horse would be scared of their music or their engines, why would they no other animal they meet reacts like that. One of my friends had his massive HGV license (don't know what it's called) and so I got to go in his big truck ;) got talking about horses and he was like 'don't know why they always jump when I go past' anyway met a horse obviously not happy with HGV he slowed right down stopped so it could get out of the way and it shot forward...baffled look. Answer: It's your ****ing airbrakes....oh!
Honest to God it is ignorance 75% of the time in my experience. What should 'young horse' mean to you if you've never met a horse and have no idea they are a flight animal or what a flight animal is? :rolleyes:
 
Had this happen to me lots of lads in a car behind me slowed down so thanked them and let them pass us as they did they got very close to math and then beeped sending poor math into panic thankfully they didnt spot a poilce car in a lay by and they were pulled over and i was given a apology by all and then the police delt with them
i have no idea what people find so funny because if you fell of and seriously hurt what will they do then hope your girls ok x
 
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:( horrible ****!!!

take the positive, she got round and it didnt go TOO wrong hun x
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^^This. I know that your head is pounding and your adrenalin is pumping right now, but try not to let this knob ruin your day, then he 'wins' on more than one front.

It's really scary riding on the roads. A girl from my barn was hit from behind riding on a wide, straight stretch of road and he kept going! A couple of cyclists chased him down and the only reason he stopped was because his car was dented. Not a thought that he had just hit two living things! Horrible. (Her horse wasn't injured luckily)

It's gotten to the point now where if a driver behaves the way they should around us when we're out on the road, I'm insanely thankful, practically bowing and scraping. (I hate that I do it)
 
thats just young lads for you! people should be made more aware of the dangers this can cause! to you, your horse or them & their car!! idiots! thats all they are, it would have taken them what? an extra ten seconds to pass you slowly & safely? silly thing to do! glad you & your mare are ok! x
 
Grrrr.. this makes me so angry!
About a month ago I was hacking with my friend and we were down a very very narrow lane. A boy race car came very very close to us, sped past and beeped their horn at us. Luckily neither horses flinched but I wanted to kill them. I recognise one guy that I've seen down the pub a few times so if I ever see him again I will give him an ear bash and maybe even whack him with my whip.
 
Pity you couldn't get their number - this is dangerous, agressive driving and needs reporting.

As for the "Caution Young Horse" and liability. I doesn't mean anything to a driver about being a young horse. Better is Please Pass Wide and Slow. And you are giving advice, not admitting liability.
 
Hopefully it wont be long before the stupid tw*t puts his car into a tree. I feel for you, I really do. The stupidity and selfishness of some people is ridiculous. Perhaps just think of it as an experience for your lovely young lady, and credit to her that she calmed down quickly. Hope it doesn't happen again.
 
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