[joe9090]

I give up. Have a look through some of the comments for this piece of clickbait:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10229533/Abusive-cyclists-plague-New-Forest-park-rangers-try-conduct-ancient-pony-tradition.html

Or rather don’t, if you want to maintain any optimisim in the world…

Honesty, I pity the UK population if this is what we have come to. 

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[Rendel Harris]

peted76 wrote:

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one pony in that whole forest which would be spooked by a cyclist. 

Can’t speak for every pony but we had a wonderful week’s touring round there a few years back and they had no fear at all, wandering across the road, stopping in the road for a look at these strange two-wheeled creatures, coming up to see if there was anything worth eating in the panniers…the only thing I ever saw spook them was car drivers revving their engines and sounding their horns to try and make them move off the road.

[Rendel Harris]

Garage at Large wrote:

Garage at Large wrote:

How long before one of these disgraceful men (and they are always men I’m afraid) takes a motor car to the New Forest with the intention of causing mayhem (where they already kill 90+ large mammals, including horses, per year, against cyclists’, um, none)? Instead of publicising these things we should be campaigning for them to be removed from the market.

FTFY. Your new fixation on horns is highly amusing, it’s your Peppa Pig – know you can’t win a reasonable argument so send up a distraction.

[peted76]

That whole article is a

That whole article is a massive pile of horseshit. 

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one pony in that whole forest which would be spooked by a cyclist. 

Also if we were feeling really naughty.. mobile phone number here from the Head Moaner are online https://www.newforestpony.com/the-new-forest/the-agisters/ wouldn’t it be awful if that ended up on a few call center’s lists.

 

[OldRidgeback]

I see one comment in this

I see one comment in this thread already about cyclists possibly using loud horns to scare horses deliberately. 

[OldRidgeback]

That’s a shocking photo and

That’s a shocking photo and it says it all. The speed limit for vehicles in the New Forest is clearly too high at 40mph.

[Simon E]

joe9090 wrote:

Agreed and you are right, but sometimes you have to watch the train crash, sometimes you need to look into the chasm of doom, the lost ark of the vile.

No, you don’t.

You are supporting the site and inadvertently encouraging them to post it.

I knew the Mail was a sewer of hate years ago. I have no desire to inflict that shit on myself.

[Rome73]

That’s a fact though. Not

That’s a fact though. Not sure the Mail reader does facts. 

[joe9090]

Agreed and you are right, but

Agreed and you are right, but sometimes you have to watch the train crash, sometimes you need to look into the chasm of doom, the lost ark of the vile.

[chrisonabike]

Sriracha wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

That picture says it all – when the horror of what it shows becomes apparent. So what I can’t fathom – they are bigging up the welfare of the ponies here, and yet all the bile is directed at people spooking a few ponies on a few days in the year, whilst those who horrifically maim and kill them in droves year round, they get a free pass?

Could these be the countryside version of the people who’re so horrified on behalf of the old / disabled / poor that they’ll even risk damage their own vehicles shoving LTN planters / bollards out of the way?

Yes, I think it’s in the same bracket as that “selective concern“. Not interested in the problems they cause, huge outcry if there’s any change to the routines. They’re local you see, all you others, you’re not.

[IanMSpencer]

When we did the GridIron this
When we did the GridIron this year, there was a certain satisfaction in seeing the faces of the drivers as it dawned on them that we were able to squeeze past the queue of literally at least 35 classic Land Rovers going for a little jaunt in the opposite direction, nose to tail on a barely single track road.

At least they were single file.

The elephant in the room is I’d guess they weren’t even on a journey.

[johndevs]

Give ’em time. I did see

Give ’em time. I did see Brexit/Remain in the comments (didn’t quite get who was being labelled with what though), so I’m sure it won’t take long before one of the darling little fascists makes that leap to immigrants coming over here wreckin’ our forests, scarin’ our ponies, scarin’ our pedestrians. 

[mdavidford]

Sriracha wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

kill them in droves year round

I thought it was the droves that were only a few days in the year?

[Sriracha]

That picture says it all –
That picture says it all – when the horror of what it shows becomes apparent. So what I can’t fathom – they are bigging up the welfare of the ponies here, and yet all the bile is directed at people spooking a few ponies on a few days in the year, whilst those who horrifically maim and kill them in droves year round, they get a free pass?

[markieteeee]

Every click to their site

Every click to their site helps fund them.  You might be curious to view hate or want to counter their perspective but it’s better to avoid funding it.  It makes no odds to them whether you agree with their nonsense or not, a click is a click.  

[Mungecrundle]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19104763.amp/

Every forest user needs to respect the wildlife and the environment. Dogs under control, take your rubbish home, drive courteously and cycle responsibly. But let’s not forget where the priorities should lie.

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