£20 note. My horse was 18.1h and I never ever got off him once out of the yard because I could not get back on without something substantial to stand on - I did that day !
There was a similar thread to this a couple of years back, had me in absolute stitches as to what some people had seen and found. I do hope they repeat all their stories as it was funny, Oz
I was riding in some dunes and came across a big clear plastic bag full of empty beer cans. It was weird because who ever dumped it there would have had to walk past a can bank to get to the dump spot. Why??? Why walk past the can bank to illegally dump them?
When I was abroad I found the most massive spiders web you could imagine - it covered an entire tree, I'm not even exaggerating! I beat a pretty hasty retreat, I hate spiders!
Me and my friend were out hacking when something flapping around spooked her horse- we took a closer look to see an massive collection of porn magazines lying in the grass !
A strange man walking towards us holding an axe which looked like it had blood on it. Needless to say I turned Ben around and galloped all the way home!
I found a pair of men's feet sticking out from under a hedge once. I was on my own and they were ahead of me on a narrow bridlepath in the middle of nowhere.
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After a moment pooing myself, we carried on towards it (by this point imagining myself in a wholly atmospheric Crimewatch reconstruction) with the horse snorting and eyes on stalks all the way. When we got to him, I could see he wasn't actually dead but asleep / passed out. Dead to the world but breathing. When I got home I headed back out there with my mum to make sure he was OK. Turned out that contrary to my dramatic but ultimately uncharitable initial interpretation of the situation, rather he had found a quiet spot to spend some time with a half bottle of whiskey and some, ahem, gentlemen's magazines. In retrospect, I'm kind of glad I saw him post self-coital than 'in flagrante'. Not sure I'd have managed to ride past covering my mare's eyes!
A wallet with £820.05 handed it into the police station and the owner got it back the following day he rang me to thank me, then a few weeks later left a thank you gift of £40.
I have been in the past flashed at that often it began to get annoying,why men see the need to show you their bits ? Used to point out that per inch the horse won.there was also one gentleman who would leave Polaroids of his bits in trees.
But today's find was just a reclining chair in a hedge x
Elle McPherson, in the woods with a fish and chip van. Turns out she was part of a shooting party and we were in the wrong part of the woods.
She patted my pony and told me she was lovely. I was only about 9 but I recognised her as it was around the time she appeared in friends and my sister was a huge fan lol!
Found 2 very old ladies with equally ancient dogs sat lighting mushrooms and breathing in the vapours then laughing very loudly. I had to laugh along, it was all very odd.
Have also found 2 dogs, a cat up a tree, 3 horses, 1 foal, a baby squirell that attacked my brother and a lost rabbit! All safely returned apart from the squirell, brother ended up in hospital for tetnus jabs!
My horse once tripped over an old world war two shell I didn't even realise what it was, but my hacking buddy did - good job really, we didn't hang about!
When I was about 13 I was out hacking my horse when I spotted what appeared to be a skeleton in a ditch. Now I'll say now in my defense we were cantering past when I spotted it. Being the inquisitive child I was I hopped off my horse tied him to a fence (!!!) and went to get a closer look. Convinced it was human remains I mounted quicker than I've ever done and galloped back to the yard. I quickly untacked and went rushing up to my mum explaining that I'd found a dead body.
Off we headed to the police station where two lovely officers took down all the details and asked if I thought I'd be able to show them where the body was. So off we toddled back to the bridleway. We were getting out of the car when out of nowhere a man descends from the bushes in head to toe khaki. He asked what we were up to and after explaining he introduced himself as one of the farm hands (bridleway passed through farm land) and asked if he could accompany us to the body.
So off we trudged retracing my earlier steps whilst farm hand asked whether I was the girl with the stunning chestnut horse he often saw riding out, I told him I was and he continued to detail every time he'd seen us out riding (creepy!).
Anyway we eventually made it back to the ditch and what did we find there? Well it was a body but it wasn't human! It turns out it was a dead sheep that they'd thrown through the hedge until they could dispose of it properly.
Needless to say I had to put up with a fair few sheep related jokes for a while after that!
A parrot, which then chased us along the road....apparently it was one that had escaped and gone wild. That was about 15 years ago and I'm still wary riding passed that area in case it's still alive.
A man playing bagpipes (badly!) in a gateway down our lane. Can only assume his wife banned him from playing in the house! he was stood with his back to me so didnt see me coming, which meant it was rather difficult to persuade my young horse to walk past!
Couple of years ago me & mum was hacking & we both noticed a little clear tub on the floor that looked liked it had money in it so I got of & it did have about £30 in it
Along the road that runs by my field at the yard is a black thong just hanging in a bush which has been there a couple of years & a bit further up are some boxer shorts & still to this day they are hanging there
Me and my mother were out hacking on a cold winters day in about January, earlier this year. There was snow on the ground and we'd decided to ride in the woods as it was more sheltered. We were quite happily trotting along admiring the icy cobwebs when both horses stopped sharpish. We looked over to where they were fixated and saw a gentleman wearing nothing but a pair of boots running through the forest off the path beside us. I don't know who was more shocked; us, him or the horses! He turned and ran one way and we cantered off in the other giggling hysterically. It was very cold! ��