Why be so scruffy !

[AdorableAlice]

We were at Stourport Equestrian Centre today. Fabulous facilities and surfaces. Family run and very friendly centre who put on a lot of competitions through the year catering from grass roots through to top end affiliated.

Why oh why, do competitors consider it acceptable to throw litter onto the car park and muck out lorries. Today I picked up various paper coffee cups, wet wipes, sandwich packets, crisp packets and empty fag packets which had been chucked out of the lorry that had been parked before us.

It is not difficult to put your rubbish in a bag and take it home, likewise with muck, just have a pooper scoop on the lorry and a large plastic feed sack. There is no need to be so disrespectful, why should the venue owner have to pick up rubbish. None of us, I am sure you would all agree, would chuck rubbish out. I pick up the plaiting bands if I drop them, I really felt embarrassed when I saw all the rubbish dropped today.

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

See I don’t get that at all! I have a large trug and a scoop in my trailer for horse poo that isn’t done in the trailer, not hard to scoop it up!! Also a plastic bag in the car for less, I tend just to throw everything in the trailer or boot then deal with it when I get home.

Can’t stand litter louts

 

[KittenInTheTree]

I agree with you. Doubtless, however, someone will be along presently to wax lyrical on how the muck is part and parcel of horses, 100% organic, needs leaving for the non-horse owning peasantry to lift for their roses, doesn't contain the same stuff as dog muck so doesn't need lifting ever, and other such excuses. They may or may not mention head scarves

 

[scruffyponies]

I object to your use of the word scruffy AA. Scruffy is hay your hair. Scruffy is mis-matched tack, unpulled manes and jodpurs with stains and holes in them. Scruffy has no impact on anyone else.

Dropping litter is a whole different business; a deliberate and selfish abuse of the world around you. I would happily see the droppers of rubbish sent to a small island somewhere to live in a nest of their own filth, away from the rest of us.

I'm sad to hear that includes horsey people. I would have expected better.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I've lost count of the number of times I have been clinging onto a first time out bumper horse that has had a bit of newspaper, race card or coffee cup blow right under their feet at the races! Much to the amusement of the ignorant gits that dropped it in the first place! Sometimes I swear they do it to see if they get a reaction out of a horse!

So it's not just the horse community it's people in general.

 

[JFTDWS]

I object to your use of the word scruffy AA. Scruffy is hay your hair. Scruffy is mis-matched tack, unpulled manes and jodpurs with stains and holes in them. Scruffy has no impact on anyone else.

Dropping litter is a whole different business; a deliberate and selfish abuse of the world around you. I would happily see the droppers of rubbish sent to a small island somewhere to live in a nest of their own filth, away from the rest of us.

I'm sad to hear that includes horsey people. I would have expected better.

Indeed. I came onto this thread expecting to have to defend my messy pony tail, hoodie and feral-looking ponies.

I will not defend litter-dropping laziness. It's unnecessary and a completely rubbish thing to do on every level. I do prefer it when show venues have muck heaps for visitors to chuck their muck into, but if there aren't any, you certainly don't just leave it in the car park

 

[blitznbobs]

I am probably the scruffiest person going... I rode in jogging bottoms and a hay covered top this am... and that was a proper schooling session... but I don’t mess up other people’s places... however dropping litter should be a hanging offence in my considered and correct opinion .. along with wearing active wear when you haven’t been doing exercise

 

[Snowfilly]

Seconded that that isn't being scruffy...I used to be scruffy riding in jogging bottoms and a hoody on ponies who hadn't had their manes touched for weeks. We never made life worse for anyone else.

That is laziness, lack of respect and downright rudeness. Could the EC ban / fine the offenders? And surely being horse people they're aware of the dangers of litter aside from the nastiness?

People make me mad at times!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Scruffy has different regional meanings. I would call someone that dropped litter a tink, just the same as I would call someone wearing manky clothes covered in hay a tink. Same word, different meanings depending on where you come from.

 

[ycbm]

I don't know. Ask the person who drives five miles out into National Park before opening his car window and dropping his McDonald's wrappers on a country lane leading to my house?

 

[cobgoblin]

I'd also like to know who spits chewing gum all over the pavements. I never see anyone doing it, but the local council is forever cleaning it up... and there's a bin every ten paces.

 

[Goldenstar]

I don't know. Ask the person who derive five miles out into National Park before opening his car window and dropping his McDonald's wrappers on a country lane leading to my house?

Oh he used to come here it was eight miles to the nearest McDonald’s I wondered what happened to him.

 

[GreyMane]

I don't know. Ask the person who drives five miles out into National Park before opening his car window and dropping his McDonald's wrappers on a country lane leading to my house?

My sister's artist friend made a whole exhibit of assorted Magic Tree air fresheners found during her travels in some truly remote places including the Australian outback.
She had to make a really airtight display case as the wretched things stank so much... I can't stand them, especially as a work colleague had one tied to the seatbelt anchor; so the smell soaked into the seatbelt and then rubbed into your clothes - yuck.
I camped in an African national park - to reach it took 7 hours drive from the capital, followed by an hour or so on a dirt road to where you left the car, followed by several hours quite strenuous hiking over a high pass and down into a valley. And when we hiked down this lovely valley to camp, there was STILL litter even there... I just don't get it.

 

[ycbm]

Oh he used to come here it was eight miles to the nearest McDonald’s I wondered what happened to him.

You can have him back any time ⏳. No charge 😂

 

[AdorableAlice]

Apologies for using the wrong word. Had I put what I would actually describe the litters droppers as would have resulted in a lengthy ban !

 

[Blazingsaddles]

We were at Stourport Equestrian Centre today. Fabulous facilities and surfaces. Family run and very friendly centre who put on a lot of competitions through the year catering from grass roots through to top end affiliated.

Why oh why, do competitors consider it acceptable to throw litter onto the car park and muck out lorries. Today I picked up various paper coffee cups, wet wipes, sandwich packets, crisp packets and empty fag packets which had been chucked out of the lorry that had been parked before us.

It is not difficult to put your rubbish in a bag and take it home, likewise with muck, just have a pooper scoop on the lorry and a large plastic feed sack. There is no need to be so disrespectful, why should the venue owner have to pick up rubbish. None of us, I am sure you would all agree, would chuck rubbish out. I pick up the plaiting bands if I drop them, I really felt embarrassed when I saw all the rubbish dropped today.

Sadly, some folk have been brought up by apes & don’t know any better.

 

[YorksG]

It appears that they exist in all communities We have a rather nice piece o heath land at the top of the village. People come out to eat their lunch in their cars at the side of it, then chuck the wrappers, paper cups etc on said heath, a lot of cyclists also use the paths across it and chuck their plastic energy drink bottles on the heath. We also find bottles and cans that guests at the hotel take out to look at the view, then chuck them on the heath! For a beautiful place it is full of rubbish!

 

[JFTDWS]

Sadly, some folk have been brought up by apes & don’t know any better.

Bit harsh on the apes - I don't think they do a lot of littering on the whole

 

[Ceriann]

I don't know. Ask the person who drives five miles out into National Park before opening his car window and dropping his McDonald's wrappers on a country lane leading to my house?

We live on a small country road. We were walking the dogs on that road in the dark headed for home. Car coming toward us stopped momentarily - we thought it was due to our bright torch and high viz. Nope, they’d stopped to chuck a McDonalds bag of litter out. We were livid. No excuse for it there or anywhere.

 

[NiceChristmasBaubles]

It never fails to sadden me when people are like this. I regularly go to Wellington Riding, either to compete or use the water treadmill. I was chatting to the lady who runs the treadmill the other day about the fact that I had to step between piles of poo when we unloaded and she said that the students regularly take a couple of hours after a big show to clear up the mess. I always carry a poop scoop with me in the lorry and would hate to drive away leaving a mess behind. It really isn't hard. Some people are just so wrapped up in their own bubble they can't even clear up after themselves.

 

[Carrottom]

My headmistress used to say "Litter is Pollution", at the time (70s) we sighed, now I know she was ahead of her time!
When competing I regularly have to muck out my jacket pockets of the used plaiting bands.

 

[Cortez]

We work our horses in a lot of public historical places. One of our rules for anyone participating with horses (and without...) is PICK UP ALL MUCK, & litter too of course. We have to leave it as we found it. Not being "-ist", but the worst for this are a local hunt club who do go on about peasants & their roses a lot

 

[Teajack]

I have a tiny front garden and like gardening. People throw rubbish in it not realising I am there and I have been known to throw it back at them. Some lively conversations have ensued

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I have a tiny front garden and like gardening. People throw rubbish in it not realising I am there and I have been known to throw it back at them. Some lively conversations have ensued

Now that I would love to see!!!!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

My wife & I together with our children would never drop litter, I suppose it's the way we were brought up. We always bring it home with us & dispose of it properly. We are on a DIY yard & we bring home feed bags, bailing string etc & again dispose of it at home.

With us 'scruffy' would refer to people who don't bother cleraning their tack, grooming their horses before they come to a show. They look like they've just pulled their horse out of the field & gone to a show. These people disrespect their animals, the show & everyone at the show.

 

[TelH]

Someone went through a phase of chucking dog poo bags down by my field gateway last year, yet there's a poo bin at the village hall less than 60 seconds walk away. I don't understand that mentality.
I always clear up my ponies/dogs poo at shows and take my rubbish home with me, it's something I just do without giving it a second thought. There was one show I went to last year, someone left a load of rubbish behind including their number, obviously not realising/caring that the organisers could work out who did it, they ended up getting a rather public warning from the show organisers.

 

[meleeka]

Oh he used to come here it was eight miles to the nearest McDonald’s I wondered what happened to him.

He’s here now or rather they are, the travellers who’ve moved near me have erected a 6ft fence and large gates round their property to ensure complete privacy and security but find it perfectly acceptable to leave their McDonald’s rubbish not 20 metres from their gate despite their bins being about 5m away (they have been seen to do this). I’ve never see such disregard for those around you 😡

 

[The Trooper]

Yeah, it's infuriating, and dirty.

I'll be honest when i read the title and started reading the first post i thought OP was going to be moaning about people being at yards etc and not dressed 'proper' and was ready to get my back up lol.

But low and behold, i agree with you 100%. We've just bought a trailer and there will be a trug and shovel going in it when we go out and about.

 

[cundlegreen]

Now that I would love to see!!!!

Has nobody seen the video on FB when a bloke stopped in a queue, and threw litter out? A man behind promptly got out, went up and chucked it back in. Great stuff!

 

[scruffyponies]

With us 'scruffy' would refer to people who don't bother cleraning their tack, grooming their horses before they come to a show. They look like they've just pulled their horse out of the field & gone to a show. These people disrespect their animals, the show & everyone at the show.

Please remember that those people may literally have pulled their ponies out of a field at silly o'clock on their only day off to get to that show. There's only so much you can do tied to your car bumper, and not everyone has the time, facilities and experience to do it properly.

I gave up pony club when I realised it was physically impossible (with a full time job in London) to get 4 children and 4 field-kept ponies to a rally on Saturday morning in acceptable order without having a nervous breakdown over a missing hairnet. It might have taken an hour to get the mud off, and pony would still look 'ungroomed'.

We did once get said scruffies to a show, and I'm sure we were exactly the oiks you describe (despite having done our best on the day). We took 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the gymkhana, and showed those shiny show ponies how and egg and spoon race should be done! (OK, I admit, the Shetland cheats!)