That's what tails are for. Like windshield wipers for bum holes.
Why can horses just **** everywhere?
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That's what tails are for. Like windshield wipers for bum holes.
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Tend to agree. Also it would be very unreasonable for someone riding a horse to pick it up and following the route after to clean defies the point of using a horse as a form of transport.....not that I am on the side of horse riders but I think they have the argument of we were here first. I think they are limited to certain road types.
Down south they seem to. Down at Christchurch there have been a couple occassions in the evening where we almost crashed into a damn horse just standing around in the middle of the road without an owner in sight.
Now admittedly this was not a main road, but the horses there definitely wander around
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Horse faeces is not especially dangerous. Dog faeces carries bacteria or whatever that can blind you.
that was before foodbanks, now chavs can get canned food instead
I don't think they're obliged to pick it up, the 'road tax' point isn't unreasonable though... I mean a horse produces far more farts than a cyclist in addition to ****ting all over the road
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*cracks knuckles*
As a horse owner myself (yes - nerdy, gaming, horse-riding metalheads do exist) I can assure you that stopping and picking up your horse poo presents several potential problems:
a) Storage - Where would I put said horse poo once I'd picked it up?
b) Weight - Have you felt the weight of horse poo? It's (quite literally) heavy ****! I wouldn't fancy carrying that around and the extra weight it would put on my horse's back
c) Control - How would I shovel some poo up of the ground while retaining control over my horse? They're flighty, powerful beasts that can require a strong grip with both hands, especially out on a busy road!
And as for the road tax nonsense, I pay enough road tax as it is with an Audi and a large, gas-guzzling 4X4 - and owning a horse is expensive enough as it stands!
As a horse owner myself (yes - nerdy, gaming, horse-riding metalheads do exist) I can assure you that stopping and picking up your horse poo presents several potential problems:
a) Storage - Where would I put said horse poo once I'd picked it up?
b) Weight - Have you felt the weight of horse poo? It's (quite literally) heavy ****! I wouldn't fancy carrying that around and the extra weight it would put on my horse's back
c) Control - How would I shovel some poo up of the ground while retaining control over my horse? They're flighty, powerful beasts that can require a strong grip with both hands, especially out on a busy road!
And as for the road tax nonsense, I pay enough road tax as it is with an Audi and a large, gas-guzzling 4X4 - and owning a horse is expensive enough as it stands!
For point B, you do realize where the poop comes from originally right, and who was carrying it?
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We should go back to open drains, just don't drink out of them.....
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Travelling by horse in London around 1900 became a real health issue, there was so much horse faces on the streets, the street cleaners could not keep up with it and so piles of horse faces were all over the place.
And then came the car.
And then came the car.
I think they should be limited to the countryside and essentially have urban areas in cities + towns as horse ban zones on the road. Around here only chavs seem to keep them + use the silliest looking little carts to ride in behind them. They're a complete danger around here when they try mixing into the traffic. A car driver would be reported instantly for veering onto the wrong side of the road and stopping oncoming traffic, why not a horse owner?
I meant tax for their horse, like the tax you pay for your vehicle.
But you don't have to slow down whilst overtaking a cyclists...
But are those horses wild or they actually have an owner?
I'm not sure you understand how digestion works. Food is fed into the bubble pouch down the windy pipe where it is stored in a quantum state that means it does not exist until observed and when it is expelled out the rump trumpet it materialises into existence and therefore at that point only, has mass.
Go one better and just throw it out of the window...
True, plus if you had to get off and clean up the mess every time the horse did something, the horse could easily become distressed maybe if they have to stop at the side of the road. Paying someone to go out and following the same route to clear the mess shouldn't be a hard thing to do though. It could create more jobs and we would have cleaner roads.
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