Something needs to be done!

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ajcameron, Feb 19, 5:15pm
My "donkey" as you put it has as much right to be on the road as any car, motorbike and cyclist. Which everyone knows as it is part of the road code.
gunhand, Feb 19, 5:20pm
Yes, but some people do not have a clue. And obviously have know idea about sharing or consideration toward others. Those kind of people sound like well rounded individuales a.
mickeyd, Feb 19, 5:20pm
If the passenger did tell him surely if they were going 100+Km they would have been long gone or you must have one heckava set of lungs on you .and he must have been an amazing shot to have hit your horse at that speed. Surely yelling at him would only have spooked your horse more!
Takes a while to stop so still can't figure out how he managed to do that and get to your horse in time to grab the reins.a spooky one at that.something just doesn't equate here!
Whether you mean to or not how you behave on horseback reflects on other riders and can influence people's opinions of them.
Perhaps if the problem is not having facilities at your grazing why not move somewhere where there are as no way are you going to control the speed people travel in their cars.geez even the cops who are paid to can't do that.LOL!
jkm, Feb 19, 5:22pm
yup. people sure am dum!
bigmacca, Feb 19, 5:23pm
i also ride but now will rarely ride on any roads now.even tho the road rules are very clear alot of drivers wont slow down.rather than risk my horse i steer clear of the roads.simple.most of the country roads here at mangaweka dont have much of a verge to ride on and are fairly narrow roads anyway.ive seen what a car looks like after a horse has been thru the front windscreen and it aint nice.
horses may have had their place on the road many years ago .they dont now.
ajcameron, Feb 19, 5:33pm
Mickeyd, I've explained twice now what happened, I cannot answer any questions about the driver as DUH im not him. As Ive said before, if you can read, My horse only gets spooked by cars or trucks speeding past her, I was riding on a semi rural road as far left as i could be and wearing a high vis vest, to and arena that i hire for schooling about 500 metres from my grazing. some of us horse riders arent lucky enough to have our own facilities. my horse spooks by doing rear spins on the spot. by the time i had calmed her down the man was right there after running towards me from his car which was parked a little way away in someones driveway. do i have to explain again! or write a novel for you!
alibobo, Feb 19, 5:37pm
i feel for you, some motorists are idiots, as demonstrated by some of the ridiculous responses posted in this thread. a quiet rural road, there is no reason why a driver coudnt have the decency to slow down and take up a few seconds of their time to drive past you safely and courteuosly. thats what i'd do. but i guess there are some people out there (more than a few by the sounds of it) who think they rul the road and anything else sharing it with them is inferior.
yyasky, Feb 19, 5:58pm
To everyone who said horses belong in the paddock etc etc, where are you going in such a hurry that you can't take an extra 30seconds to ensure everyone's safety!
What is THAT important you can't slow down!
jmma, Feb 19, 6:21pm
Everyones hoofing it to get to the TAB (o:
tshop, Feb 19, 6:34pm
get an "Iron Horse" i.e a bike, he he
pup2, Feb 19, 6:37pm
ajcameron - ALOT of the motor thread guys consider the only objects allowed on the rd, will have a number plate screwed to it's @r$e, and a reg'o sticker slapped on it somewhere. unlucky you never got their full plate. At least your horse got one of them.
marmatt, Feb 19, 7:08pm
hope you pick up your horse shyte as well or just ride on !
ajcameron, Feb 19, 7:21pm
Unfortunately i dont carry a shovel when i ride. but if i ride on a foot path (hardly ever) i always push it into the gutter or onto some grass with my boot.
tonyrockyhorror, Feb 19, 10:23pm
No, it doesn't. It's not a rational creature. I needs to be kept well away from the road.

The punishment for riding a hay burner on the road should be having it shredded into dog tucker.
pollymay, Feb 19, 11:48pm
Signs on the road won't help. They saw you ages off and had enough time to pick up or at least hang the bottle out to throw at you.

I slow for horses SOMETIMES but I often don't get why where their is straightish 50k roads going for a country mile off to the side they insist on using the 100k zone. Also if you have to wave them down cause the horse is skittish it really shouldn't be on a fast bit of road. The nanny brigade would laugh you off the internet if you said you were on your ATV or small farm tractor doing 10kmh on the road yet both of those are less dangerous than a horse which can bolt. Load it on a trailer, go somewhere quiet, I manage it with my racecars.
oakie, Feb 20, 5:55am
I'm on your side but if I had a horse that was a bit skitzo in traffic I wouldn't have it anywhere near a road. common sense applies here surely.
ajcameron, Feb 20, 8:59am
Again if you guys read my original post right you would certainly read that my horse is only skittish when cars fly past her. on the stretch of road where i ride is a 70 k zone and shes fine. also i was riding to an arena which i hire for schooling aprox 500 metres from my grazing. im going to ignore comments like tonyrockyhorror's comment. the issue im trying to make some
(not all) drivers aware of is simply slow down and give us a bit of space. once upon a time horses built your precious road and by nz we still have a right to use them
motorway, Feb 20, 9:04am
You can't legislate against ignorance, arrogance and plain old arseholeness.
richardmayes, Feb 20, 10:46am
A German car driven by obnoxious, aggro and utterly selfish fkwits! Now there's a surprise!

It never ceases to amaze me, the attitudes of people who think:
(1) that New Zealand's highways were built for motor cars, and only motor cars, and any other taxpaying citizen using them is some sort of trespasser;
(2) that it is some kind of great hardship to have to slow down for a few seconds.

The goon who threw a bottle at you committed a crime, I would be tempted to report them to the police.

Horses on the road are real a-grade pain in the backside. slow moving. unpredictable. not really under the rider's control. (oh no they are NOT!) you have to slow down and take pains not to frighten them.

Nevertheless, you do have a right to be on the road.

You might not be doing yourself any favours, gesticulating at oncoming traffic. Plenty of us would not recognise your pony club's "please slow down" gesture as anything other than you trying to tell me what to do on the road, and it's my road too. So it's possible the car driver / passenger mistook you for some sort of arrogant b**tard and took objection.

Hope these thoughts are of some help.
elect70, Feb 20, 11:09am
The perp could have made a complaint to plod for being assulted by your horse . Sounds silly but stranger things happen .Its local bodiesfault, wont let hoses ride on berms .