The most bizarre sight I've seen hacking!

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Yesterday I decided to make the most of the lovely weather and go for a hack. As we were hacking home up the road (a quietish country lane) a car came from behind, slowed right down and went as wide as it could to get past. I turned to thank the driver and had to do a double take.
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The roof of this car, an MR2, was down. Nothing odd there you might think having the roof down in nice weather. But it meant that I got a good look at the driver.... who was a clown!

I'm not being rude about him, this guy was ACTUALLY a clown! Bright blue suit, purple curly hair, white face with a big red nose and even the black bowler hat with a flower sticking out of it! Even Archie had a good look at him and had a bit of a surprised expression on his face!! I had to make sure I hadn't accidentally taken some of Archie's bute when I got back to the farm!

I know clowns have to travel too, but where could he be going inthe middle of the Welsh countryside at 10am on a Monday morning?! And why would he be wearing his wig, hat and nose in an open top car? Surely they'd blow away.... unless they weren't a wig and a fake nose and he was a REAL clown?
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haha! this made me laugh!
surely he would have drove himself somewhere and then got dressed up??
eee, clowns scare me, i would have been a bit creeped out riding down a quiet lane and seeing a clown.
ee, its making me cringe now.
sorry, i really dont like clowns haha
strangee
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Luckily I'm not bothered by them, and more importantly neither is Arch! I can see that in an advert, 100% in traffic, not bothered by lorries, buses or clowns in open top cars LOL!
 
Once when I was hacking through a spinney I heard screaming nearby. It sounded just like a child. I headed towards the sound, feeling quite scared but thought I could just gallop away if necessary. As I got closer I found it was a stoat which had caught a rabbit and it was the rabbit's screams I could hear.
I tried to chase the stoat away but to no avail.
Horrid experience but at least it wasn't a child. I still feel a little sick thinking about it now and it was years ago.
 
Now that makes my clown seem very tame! I found an injured bird once, it was in quite a bad way. I'm useless with identifying birds but it wasn't a normal blackbird or anything it was some huge beige thing. I decribed it to my dad and he said it sounded like a buzzard. I phoned the RSPCA but they said they couldn't come out unless I had caught it. I took my horse home and went back with a box (luckily it wasn't too far from a road) but it had gone. I don't know if somebody else came past and picked it up or if it found somewhere to hide and recover. Judging by its size I don't think a predator would have had it, unless it was a yeti or something like the beast of Bodmin! (I'm nowhere near there though!)
 
Lol! I think i would have had a breakdown of some sort, i have a phobia of clowns. Brave Arch! I don't know many horses that would have not been freaked out by that (or people lol)
 
To reach the bridleway, I have to hack past a local castle where they stage historic re-enactments. So far we have hacked past Vikings, Saxons and Civil War pikemen. The ones my mare found the most scary were the morris dancers. They waved hankies at her!
 
I once watched a completely naked man emerge from the trees on the other side of the river bank, then go back up into them and disappear. My horse couldn't take her eyes off him. Mind you, we once literally tripped over a naturist and to my huge embarrassment my horse stopped dead and put her head down to inspect him REALLY closely. I haven't got a problem with nudity, just flashers!
 
i was flashed at whilst hacking out an ex racer - i was really nervous about taking him out and after a few weeks of getting my bottle up went out and that happened!!

he spun and gallopped off leaving me in a heap on the floor, covering my eyes in case the naked freak was still about!

actually quite dangerous but i was the laugh of the yard for months
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was once out hacking at dusk - just a quick spin round the woods. Was trotting along the bridleway that runs adjcent to the yard and saw what I thought was a log - just as Riv and I were deciding whether to jump it or not it lept up and started yelling at us!!

It was a drunk man asleep in the middle of the bridleway!! River spooked and cantered off and the 'log' chased us for about 5 minutes screaming about how we'd woken him up!!! Once we both got over the shock I found it quite funny but wouldn't be alone on the yard for a while...
 
i have had to ride past 2 people who were "busy" shall we but it in a car my blo**y horse was rooted to the spot and would move !!!!!! they just caried on the "business" as i was stood there completely undeterred!!!!!! i must have looked like a right weirdo!!!!!!
 
There's a bit of an odd couple in our area and apparently they like to take their horses for a hack, tie them to a tree and get "busy" as you put it quadro. Luckily I have only heard about this not witnessed it. A friend once came across two men getting "busy" as well - then realised one of them was a friend of a friend and married!
 
I used to keep my horse on a livery yard that was in a park owned by the council. The outskirts were notorious for druggies.

I once came out of the woods to find three new black Range Rovers with blacked out windows abandoned with all their doors thrown wide open and no one about at all. My first instinct was to get off and see if someone was hurt, then reality kicked in and we turned tail and galloped back to the yard.

I never found out what had happened, but it scarred the wits out of me and I moved soon after!!!!
 
I was out hacking once on one of our mega 7 hour hacks and on the return journey there was just a group of naked people walking down the path the other way and poor pone was a nit phased by them
 
PSML!
Great stories! The clown would have freaked me out!
I love how horses stop and stare at the worst moments! And there is NOTHING you can do that will convince them to move!

My best soft-top car story is:
I was walking and hitching a lift to the main road as I had missed my bus, I had stuck my hand up for a couple of people and no one stopped when a car pulled up and asked if I wanted a lift.
He was driving a Soft-top JAGUAR XK120 1950s model! (sorry too much Top Gear)
Brit racing green, cream leather interior, spotless...of course I accepted =)
I was astonished that he had stopped as I was filthy after having mucked out and shifted hay all morning.
Nice car, nice (non-creepy) driver ;-)
 
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