Whats the maddest thing that has ever happened at your yard?

Turning up for an early morning lesson to find the yard swarming with men in camoflage gear carrying massive guns............. :eek: I thought maybe I'd missed the turning for the yard and ended up in Iraq, :eek: but apparently they were there to shoot rabbits on the fields with YO's permission and were just a bit over enthusiastic..............

We also have a buddist retreat next door so do occasionally find a shaven headed monk in orange robes wandering about..... shocks the horses but they are very nice and the cafe there is lovely! :D
 
These are all brilliant. Ruthnmeg it sounds very much like we may have been to the same college, I can imagine the head of depatment doing that and you are from the right area!

I can't think of anything that has happend whilst I have been at a yard but an escaped prisoner was found hiding in the hay barn a few years ago and there were search helicopters all over the place.
 
Not on my yard, but my friend's. She has stable and land behind her house. The police helicopter was over head, when there was a knock on the door. There was a policeman wanting to go down to the land becuase they had picked up a heat source on their land.

They explained about the horses, but police man said definately not horses. So this policeman and her dad head down the garden, and round to where the heat was, only to find the muck heap!! :D:D
 
These are great! Our yard is a bit mad anyway, we had 22 rheas (smaller version of ostriches), 40+ chickens of varying shapes and sizes, a turkey, two geese, some duckes, two pygmy goats, a miniature shetland and 5+ cats, oh and two of the biggest mastiff dogs you have ever seen, all of which pretty much roam free. Means our horses are pretty unfazed by such things which is handy - new liveries take a while to get used to the rheas and goats in particular. Moving the rheas from field to field is always a laugh as they DO NOT herd easily!
Actually apparently a few years back there was something dodgy found in neighbouring land and the police staked it out from our place, and then people living on the opposite hill thought it was some kind of biological crime scene as the rheas from a distance looked like the forensics people in the white suits!
 
MinskiKaii- lol!

Had police come into the yard when i was schooling one day. No one ever told me what it was about though?!
 
Katt said:
Turning up for an early morning lesson to find the yard swarming with men in camoflage gear carrying massive guns............. :eek: I thought maybe I'd missed the turning for the yard and ended up in Iraq, :eek: but apparently they were there to shoot rabbits on the fields with YO's permission and were just a bit over enthusiastic..............

We also have a buddist retreat next door so do occasionally find a shaven headed monk in orange robes wandering about..... shocks the horses but they are very nice and the cafe there is lovely! :D
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Katt - Are you at Barleyfields or down the road per chance?! LOL I've seen the Buddhists too - they make a nice cuppa!

This is thread is hilarious! Now being on a yard full of soldiers I couldnt even write down half the stuff I see/hear! I'll never forget the first day I turned up to ride there, found my yard and troop I was assigned to. Heard music playing ..... Dolly Parton 9-5, confused I poked my head around into the stables and saw a number of soldiers dancing with brooms singing along! I knew I belonged immediatley! haha
 
gala said:
JHoward...LOL!!!

At my old yard. Friend's son mooching around bareback on his ex policehorse. Hay trailer comes round the corner. Friend's son rides horse on to muck heap to let trailer go by. Horse promptly sinks up to his belly on gooey muck heap. Horse struggles, sinks deeper, practically disappears. (Friend's son has jumped off by now) Someone calls fire brigade. Three fire engines turn up, sirens blaring, ponies carting off small children in all directions. Yard floozie turns up and starts chatting up random firemen. Horse sunk deeper now, only head and one shoulder visible.Everyone starts digging furiously. Fireman smugly produce brand new state of the art inflatable raft to put under horse to drag him out. Horse 17.2 by the way. Dig dig dig. Raft installed and inflated. No room to hook raft to winch to everyone pulls..heave heave heave...bang! Raft goes pop. Ropes fly off. DOH! But we've moved the horse enough that he can struggle out himself. Hurrah! Horse ambles back to his stable smelling like nothing on earth, but none the worse, and yard floozie gets a date with fireman. Rest of fireman go home in tears as their new raft toy is broken.

That was it in a nutshell, but the whole thing went on for about 3 hours..
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LOL, OMG that's absolutely BONKERS!
 
Ha ha some very funny replies..

We have had lots of things happen.. people in the field having a picnic.. countless shaggers outside our gates... once found a tramp in the hay shed he had found some old rugs wrapped himself up in the and was fast alseep... lots of nutters as mental home not too far away ( they seem to escape alot)

We get lots of requests from Asians for a shoe from a Black horse ... or a tail hair from a white horse to remove warts LOL!!
 
We had the police arrive to search our paddocks and bushes incase there were any Terrorists hiding as we are on the flight path to a major airport. Never seen any Taliban in my bushes mind you.!!!! but there may always be a first time
 
When we lived on the farm, I did once find a guy digging up a corner of my paddock looking for achitectural remnants from the old Monastry.

I also found a red lacy thong near my horse's water butt once too. :eek: :D
 
theres a livery on our yard whos father won the lottery a couple of weeks ago, and we ended up with them running around in dark glasses hiding from the press who were swarming up and down the lane outside the yard. That was an amusing morning..

Our yard owner got married and had her wedding reception on the yard.

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lost my husbans at the yard. Spent ages looking for him & phoning only to find him asleep in the hay barn amongst the hay
 
once we had a random man come into the yard, someone was in the school and we were at the school fence. He just walked up to us and started talking to us like we had known each other for years, talking about random things for ages as we couldn't get rid of him, all being women we didn't feel brave enough to tell the strange man to just leave.
 
Brilliant posts!

And my own twopence worth... I've also had to contend with the couple "doing it", not at the yard but hacking back through the hayfield. The scene, short-sighted me assuming the black "thing" in the gateway must be polythene, riding super speedy pony who's very keen to be heading home. Imagine my surprise when "black bit of polythene" stood up to reveal girl looking rather ruffled. My only choice was ride past as though they're not there, which went fine until pony (who was completely unfazed by couple) spooked at pheasant which looked at him sideways almost catapulting me into their laps. Not sure who was more embarrassed

Less embarrassing madness was driving up to the yard one day to meet ponies hurtling in all directions, some with children attached at funny angles. Tuned out the neighbour decided to land his helicopter just as all the ponies were being walked back to the field. He apparently didn't think this would be a problem, apparently the ponies had other ideas.
 
Love this thread! Very funny...
The yard i was at, was on a pig farm. One day the pigs escaped and got into the arena in the middle of a 'just off leadrein' lesson full of small children on little ponies. Another time, just one pig escaped and we spent two hours trying to catch it for the farmers, followed it over the main road and everything! They were both quite amusing days... :D
 
Got to the yard a few weeks ago to find one of the new girls in tears on the phone. Went to check she was ok and she thrust the phone at me saying "tell them where we are". I was totally confused but took the phone, anf found out it was the police operator on the other end wanting the farm's address. It turned out she'd found a stray dog with its adress on the collar and when she went to return it to a house around the corner from where she lives, the owner (well known drunk in the area - she's new to the ares so didnt know) answered the door with a knife in his hand and was waving it about at her. She didnt want to go home as he would have seen her going into the house so she came up to the farm. The dog was still in the back of her car. Police then turned up, the guy is well known to them so they dealt with it. She was stuck with the dog until about 10pm though when the police collected him from her house and took him back.
 
Not on the yard but close it it. I was out hacking one day with OH and dog to come across a bright pick set of pants and a bar!!! They were on the fence next to our yard, I have know idea were they came from, i don't think I want to!
 
Spottyappy said:
Have our own land, so not on a yard. However, one day, we had our gates open as were awaiting a delivery.
A strange car drove in, the occupants got out in the middle of the field, and started having a picnic!!:confused:
OH strode over to them with our Doberman, and they didn't bat an eyelid!
OH asked what they were doing and they stated the obvious " having a picnic of course".
He then suggested that they may like to leave as it was private property, or maybe they would supply him with their addresses so we could repeat the experience on their front garden!:eek:
The did pack up and go, but declined to leave their details!
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hahahahaa thats a classic one !
 
I arrived at my yard one to find a police EVERYWHERE and a helicoptor hovering v.low over the yard fields.
All the liveries were dashing about trying to get panicking horses in from the fields ...... my horsey was happy as you like, grazing out in the middle of his field with helicoptor just above him (very proud mummy moment!)

Turns out a couple of car thieves had stolen a car, rammed a police car - injuries the officers and then made their escape on foot and were sheltering in the ditch/hedge seperating our fields. YO had seen 2 blokes looking a bit shifty, so taking her dog had gone to ask them what they were doing? Their response was something about using dog to flush out rabbits ............
No dog with them! YO rang police.....

MOST gutting thing was the helicopter had to leave cos it was low on fuel and we saw said car theives legging it across fields ............ dog handlers were in hot pursuit shortly after!
 
People are constantly shagging in their cars down the lane :D We're in London but the lane is very quiet. There is a passing place by the entrace to the stubble field we ride in. I love banging on the car windows to get them to move their steamed up vehicle so I can get into the field. They always look very shocked......but considering it is usually 2pm on a Sunday you would think they would realise that people would be passing by.

When my car broke down OH had to pick me up every night. I am always longer than I say I will be so he sits in his white van doing a crossword. He called me one night and said to come out into the lane. I found him being held up against the van by two policemen being frisked. Someone had reported a dodgy looking bloke in a van hanging round on the lane at night.....they thought he was a perve :D
 
There was an incident where by 30+ horse and riders from the hunt came cantering through our yard. We had horses on the horse walker, horses being ridden in the school and some tied up outside their stables and they all came whizzing through. You can imagine the chaos!!

Back when I was a groom I went with my boss to catch in a few of the youngsters from across the road. We unlocked the gate and had to walk down 1/2 track to the next field. Upon our return 5mins later, there was a car in the gateway and a couple "at it". My boss knocked on the window and asked them to move. A few uncomfortable minutes passed and my boss banged on the window and shouted "how long does it take to put your flamming knickers on?" :D
 
Mabel98 said:
We once had a lady who used to take over the yard with her children. She would breast feed in the tackroom and tell us all not to bring our horses in or out of the yard so her toddler could play safely................!
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Hope you told her where to get off!!!
 
At a previous yard I worked on which was owned and run by 3 siblings the maddest things happened:

There was a huge punch up on the yard between 2 of the siblings. Police ended up being called.

They decided to pull down the old yard, and build a nice new one. Pulled down all the old stables, only to find there was no money to rebuild because one of the sibling had bought themselves a new kitchen with the money.

The sibling who was in charge of the staff accommodation decided to clear out the boot room, without telling anybody. She put all the boots in a skip and burned them. I had some brand new £250 long boots in the boot room at the time. They were gone, so I went into the womans house and started yelling at her. I happened to notice on my way out of her living room half hidden in a corner my nice new pair of long boots! I asked her what they were doing in her living room, to which she said they were too nice to burn, so she had decided she would have them. I said they were mine, but she wouldn't give them back. I called the police, and got her for theft!!!!!!!!!!
 
I was 11 and riding my pony in the back fields one summer afternoon. In the middle of the trail was couple, the guy rogering away. I stopped next to them and the girl opened her eyes. I wiggled a "hello" at her from atop my pony. She tapped him on the shoulder, he ignored her and she just smiled at me and closed her eyes.

Pretty fun stuff for an 11 year old.
 
All I've found at my place is a couple picnicking on foot, a rather large bra in the hedge and once a human poo in the field shelter. Boring!!!

Feeling left out, now, boo hoo!
 
Our yard is very quiet, only the YO, us and one other livery. So we rarely have any problems or upsets. We are surrounded by the YO's fields then a couple of farms, one of which decided to keep a couple of pigs as pets. Fany is okay with anything but Cappy hates pigs, he refused for ages to go past them, often going up on 2 legs and spinning at the same time, finally with lots of coaxing he piaffed and leg yeilded his way past them. We were very pleased as it is on the way to a really nice ride.

This particular day we were all in the American barn and one of the YO's friends came in and said there are 2 pigs coming up the yard. Elizabeth was in with Cappy and the YO went to see, they tried to catch them but the pigs were quick and made for the barn, I nearly wet myself as Elizabeth ran to the double doors and spread legged shouted "They aren't coming in, I'll never get him out of the stables again if he sees them!" Whilst doing star jumps on the spot! :D:D:D I just wish I'd had a camera!

They were returned to their owner, Cappy was fine and walked past them perfectly from then on.
 
gala said:
JHoward...LOL!!!

At my old yard. Friend's son mooching around bareback on his ex policehorse. Hay trailer comes round the corner. Friend's son rides horse on to muck heap to let trailer go by. Horse promptly sinks up to his belly on gooey muck heap. Horse struggles, sinks deeper, practically disappears. (Friend's son has jumped off by now) Someone calls fire brigade. Three fire engines turn up, sirens blaring, ponies carting off small children in all directions. Yard floozie turns up and starts chatting up random firemen. Horse sunk deeper now, only head and one shoulder visible.Everyone starts digging furiously. Fireman smugly produce brand new state of the art inflatable raft to put under horse to drag him out. Horse 17.2 by the way. Dig dig dig. Raft installed and inflated. No room to hook raft to winch to everyone pulls..heave heave heave...bang! Raft goes pop. Ropes fly off. DOH! But we've moved the horse enough that he can struggle out himself. Hurrah! Horse ambles back to his stable smelling like nothing on earth, but none the worse, and yard floozie gets a date with fireman. Rest of fireman go home in tears as their new raft toy is broken.

That was it in a nutshell, but the whole thing went on for about 3 hours..
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ROFLMAO - Oh Thank you :D Tears streaming down my face :D :D :D
 
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