Horse Manure

charliew87

The King's Road in London (and bits of Sloane Sq and Knightsbridge) were all caked in horse crap this morning, bucketloads of the stuff.

Assuming it was police horses, not sure why though as neither FFC or CFC played on Sunday.

Do they not have any obligation to clear this up? Smelt horrendous, slippery on a bike and if a dog owner left anything behind they would (rightly) be fined £80!!

BigLights

I wonder what would happen if we just poo'd on the road when we felt the urge.....

shortcuts

BigLights wrote:

I wonder what would happen if we just poo'd on the road when we felt the urge.....

Apart from the very strange looks from others?

arran77

Have you seen the poopascoopa needed for horse sh1t :shock:

rubertoe

BigLights wrote:

I wonder what would happen if we just poo'd on the road when we felt the urge.....

I wonder if this is not the greatest word of all time.

I cycle in and around St' James park, you get used to it.

sketchley

There is specific law about dogs fowling, and it's because of parsites in dog poo that can cause amongst other thing blindness in children (google toxocariasis). There is no specfic law covering horses. There maybe scope to talk to local authority about it though see Highways act 1980 "Removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance etc." http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/149

5milestogo

Bought 4 bags of horse sh*t at the weekend for a tenner. Thought it was a bargain until I saw this post.

arran77

5milestogo wrote:

Bought 4 bags of horse sh*t at the weekend for a tenner. Thought it was a bargain until I saw this post.

Plenty on the roads round here, I'll bag some up and post it to you.

cyclingprop

Sketchley wrote:

There is specific law about dogs fowling,

I thought hunting with dogs was banned?

sketchley

doh!

Kieran_Burns

There's not a single commute goes by that I'm not avoiding horse manure. You citified folk have no idea how hard it can be to commute in the countryside....

DrLex

Sketchley wrote:

[...] There maybe scope to talk to local authority about it though see Highways act 1980 "Removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance etc." http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/149

Yup, and it believe that that's the same reg. used to "encourage" farmers to clear up mud left on the roads by their tractors between field ploughings. There's a stretch on my commute that can get a little dicey around this time of year.

cje

I'm not fussed by horse manure. It certainly isn't as toxic as the canine equivalent. It is slippery when wet though, which coincidentally is the name of an album by Bon Jovi, who are also poo.

Headhuunter

Sketchley wrote:

There is specific law about dogs fowling, and it's because of parsites in dog poo that can cause amongst other thing blindness in children (google toxocariasis). There is no specfic law covering horses. There maybe scope to talk to local authority about it though see Highways act 1980 "Removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance etc." http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/149

Somebody in 1 of the clubs I ride with got quite ill from horse manure, on a ride in the country he had to ride through a slick of horse sh!t which inevitably sprayed all over the bike and water bottle - next time he took a sip of water he was drinking a cocktail of bacteria. I think he ended up visiting hospital...

hegyestomi

BigLights wrote:

I wonder what would happen if we just poo'd on the road when we felt the urge.....

Dare you!

rjsterry

Headhuunter wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

There is specific law about dogs fowling, and it's because of parsites in dog poo that can cause amongst other thing blindness in children (google toxocariasis). There is no specfic law covering horses. There maybe scope to talk to local authority about it though see Highways act 1980 "Removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance etc." http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/149

Somebody in 1 of the clubs I ride with got quite ill from horse manure, on a ride in the country he had to ride through a slick of horse sh!t which inevitably sprayed all over the bike and water bottle - next time he took a sip of water he was drinking a cocktail of bacteria. I think he ended up visiting hospital...

Without wanting to be mean to this chap, drinking from a bottle sprayed in horse manure is always asking for trouble. Not sure how there was a 'slick' of horse sh!t - it's usually pretty solid lumpy stuff. Cow sh!t on the other hand...

tgotb

rjsterry wrote:

Not sure how there was a 'slick' of horse sh!t - it's usually pretty solid lumpy stuff. Cow sh!t on the other hand...

You should try riding down my road on a rainy day. Dry sh*t + water = slurry.

walkingbootweather

As a rule, if it looks like horse manure, smells like horse manure and tastes like horse manure, it is best to avoid cycling through it......

jongooligan

There used to be stiles on the C2C in this area to keep the motorcyclists off the track. They've taken most of them down now to allow horse riders on the track. The trouble is that now it's dark in the mornings you're into the stuff before you realise it. Can't say it bothers me that much - it's the dog muck that makes me gag when it gets all over the bike.

Kieran_Burns

rjsterry wrote:

Without wanting to be mean to this chap, drinking from a bottle sprayed in horse manure is always asking for trouble. Not sure how there was a 'slick' of horse sh!t - it's usually pretty solid lumpy stuff. Cow sh!t on the other hand...

I may have recounted this story previously, but back on my old commute when I rode down 3 odd miles of bridleway (yeah, yeah, yeah - RAPSIT!! ) A cow had managed to get onto the last stretch and clearly got very scared and ran very fast. To this day I don't know how some of that 'scared' got so damn high in the bushes but the sodding stuff was every-fricking-where, and it was drizzling... just enough to keep everything lovely and 'fresh'

msmancunia

I got stuck/blocked in behind a tractor towing a muck spreader the last time I went up to Cragg Vale. I couldn't get that episode of Father Ted when he gets covered in sh1te when the driver presses the wrong button out of my head.

It is literally the most scared I've ever been. And I've been chased home by Millwall fans halfway through Derby before now.

Headhuunter

TGOTB wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Not sure how there was a 'slick' of horse sh!t - it's usually pretty solid lumpy stuff. Cow sh!t on the other hand...

You should try riding down my road on a rainy day. Dry sh*t + water = slurry.

Exactly, bit of rain, couple of tractors and Bob's your uncle it's all over the road...

navt

walkingbootweather wrote:

As a rule, if it looks like horse manure, smells like horse manure and tastes like horse manure, it is best to avoid cycling through it......

And not drink it.

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

There's not a single commute goes by that I'm not avoiding horse manure. You citified folk have no idea how hard it can be to commute in the countryside....

When it freezes in the winter it goes rock hard. You need to remember where it is when you ride past it in daylight so you miss it on the way home in the dark.

moarspeed

No point saying anything against horses, too many are ridden by the children of or non-working wives of the rich and influential. Anyone on a horse is above the law......