What is the most stupid/dangerous horse situation you've seen?

Inspired by a post below. What is the most stupid or dangerous horse related incident that you have seen?

This has to be an absolute Darwin Award. We had a livery, she was so stupid it was untrue. She used to take her pony down into the village, pushing her pram with her baby in it, get to the pub and tie the pony to the pram handle and go inside and get drunk. The baby was still in the pram
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Well I don't think I can beat that one Diesel Dog - I have never heard anything as stupid in all my life!!
 
Have seen some pretty stupid things, that tho is beyond anything ive seen!!!! I did once as a child, sneakout of my house, cycle to my yard, and hack my pony out,,, it was dusk when i hacked out and pretty dark when i got back,, to a not so very happy looking parent and search party!!!! no fear as a youngster!!!!
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p.s dd hows your mare doin now??
 
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Inspired by a post below. What is the most stupid or dangerous horse related incident that you have seen?

This has to be an absolute Darwin Award. We had a livery, she was so stupid it was untrue. She used to take her pony down into the village, pushing her pram with her baby in it, get to the pub and tie the pony to the pram handle and go inside and get drunk. The baby was still in the pram
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I have heard some stories but this certainly does top them all!
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Most stupid one I saw was on TV; an RSPCA animal rescue show; my daughter used to watch anything with animals in it, and one day I sat & watched with her and found it horrific; not so much the ignorance of the owners as the ignorance of the "professionals".

The worst example (but not the only one) was when the RSPCA was called out to a horse that had been shut in a narrow pen and was said to be starving so as to be too weak to walk. You saw the horse & it was indeed in a narrow pen; jusr rhe length & breadth of the horse; however, you could that it wasn't starving; just very undermuscled. It actually looked quite bright and perky & otherwise well-cared for, and I thought at the time that it was a youngster that just hadn't had enough exercise. But why was it shut in the pen like that?

The RSPCA really went to town on the cruelty of the owner, and brought a horsebox- not a VET mind you, nor a horse ambulance, just an ordinary trailer, to uplift the animal and take it into their superior & knowledgeable care.

The horse was taken out of the pen- and as it walked forward its hind end gave an unco-ordinated lurch sideways: it was a wobbler. Now, I had never seen a wobbler before, but I'd read about the problem: if I could recognise this horse's text-book symptoms, howcome the supposed professionals, who had had a chance to interview the owner, did not suspect this? Instead they pointed out that the horse was so weak from starvation ( and it didn't look starved!) that it could hardly stand up.

Clearly a not uncaring but misguided owner had been trying to support the horse in its little pen, hoping it would get stronger as it grew. If this case had been properly handled, the vet should have been called, the diagnosis made and the news broken to the owner that this horse was not going to get better, and the poor creature put down at home.

Instead, a horse that had trouble standing was loaded onto a trailer and shipped God knows how far on the public road, with a certainty of extreme distress to the horse and a strong possibility of the horse going down in the trailer or even causing a road accident if the trailer unbalanced and the driver lost control.

That the RSPCA was then so ignorant as to show this example of cruelty through ignorance as a glowing example of a successful rescue on National TV along with maudlin music and a condemnation of the owner, really finished me off re. this charity.

We never saw the horse again, but a note at the end of the programme did say that the vet had diagnosed an incurable condition and euthanized it. Poor creature.

Sorry for the extended rant; I'd forgotten how angry I felt about this.
 
Just nearly run into a neighbour, out hacking on dark bay, wearing dark green full length coat.

Came round blind bend ( I was looking for daughter who was late returning from hack, so looking for a horse (our's was all Hi Viz'd though), almost ran straight into horse with my car.

It's pretty dark, wet and windy here.

Oh BTW the horse cost in excess of £50 000 6 months ago!
 
Hey Thistle, is it the horse owner or your drivin g that you're criticising here (blind bend, dark, wet, possibility of deer or pedestrians, etc....)
 
Again, this was on a animal rescue type programme but an owner had tried to use "neat" jeyes fluid to cure sweet itch on a horses tail. I cried buckets over that.
 
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Hey Thistle, is it the horse owner or your drivin g that you're criticising here (blind bend, dark, wet, possibility of deer or pedestrians, etc....)

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I was doing approx 10mph as stated I was looking for daughter
 
I think the MOST stupid thing I've witnessed has to have been myself and a YO at a place I was at as a livery MANY years ago.

Was a student and came back from the pub with some friends. Decided to ride in the indoor school.... got the jumps out... jumped the horses... quite high..


Luckily no one was injured and apart from the neds being a bit tired the next day all was well. I cringe thinking about it now.

<can't decide if I should 'fess up to this now but I was young and v stupid>

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Just nearly run into a neighbour, out hacking on dark bay, wearing dark green full length coat. BTW the horse cost in excess of £50 000 6 months ago!

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Seems to be a common thread, perhaps expensive neds come with invisible car proof shields round them but a wealthy SJ'er local to us goes on the road with demi camouflage kit on, oh and no hat either
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In Cairo I saw a flatbed truck driving along the dual carriageway with a skinny arab tied on the back! No rails or anything, poor thing just stood there. I have no idea how they got him on... but then I suppose that's not unusual in some countries.
 
When I was competing with the scurry ponies at Hickstead around 4 years ago I saw some t**t try to ride a horse in to the bar!
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My boss had gone to get drinks so I was stood outside the beer tent, which rammed as it usually is in the night, with a live band playing inside, when a palomino horse's head appeared above the crowd and I had a bunch of slightly merry people running towards me! The horse was going nuts trying to get the idiot off its back and bronked, landing on a picnic table. It then stood, probably out of shock, and a few people tried to hold it, but it went mental again. Luckily it stopped and I remember a woman screaming at the guy on it to get off and he was dragged off. The horse was then led away.

Turns out it wasn't even his horse!
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He'd just got it out of a stable, put a headcollar on it and tried to ride it in to the bar for a laugh. Mind you, my boss hadn't even noticed, just thought the bar had emptied quickly and was chuffed how quick he got our drinks
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I saw a report in H&H a few months later, the horse was fine and the bloke was sued!
 
I have seen a young girl riding a pony known to be a rearer in very tight side reins, she was advised to do this by an instructor, which was a bit of a worry!!
I will also confess to riding my newly backed, very big, youngster by myself with no one else on the yard in a small lunging pen. Don't ask, i was pretty young and worked for a very well known person and i was desperate to not ride in front of her until my girl was going half decently!!!
 
When I was young and stupid, I was doing my BHS training, when the boss had gone home we used to get the ponies out and ride them in the indoor school with headcollars and leadropes bareback, normally 2 up and them try and make each other fall off....very silly I know.

One woman at a yard I was at used to tie her horse to the door handle of her car and feed it in the car park. It was a really highly strung tb mare and one day it lost the plot and trashed her car and ripped the door off!

A lady in our village had a baby in a pushchair and a very manic collie dog, she tied the dog to the buggy and he ran off after something dragging the buggy with him down the road, I think the baby actually fell out.
 
a couple of years ago at a local show some eejits tied their pony to a deck chair while they went off to the burger van. The pony got a fright and took off dragging the deck chair behind it. Poor thing must have been terrified.
 
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