It’s like an HBO version of Saddle Club. :lol:
Truth is stranger than fiction and there are some crazy people out there.
Yep… there is plenty of evidence out there that there are crazy trainers, crazy stalkers, and crazy horse show moms, and sooner or later they all seem to find each other and make even crazier things happen.
I agree, there is this combination in every horse community. I’ve known a few in the past myself, luckily was never the object of their obsession, other than petty jealous remarks at or after shows. I never responded to them, since anyone worth hanging out with all knew that they were all nuts.
Folks like this do make for some entertaining stories though!
I am honestly not interested in turning this into an argument. I have enough to deal with right now, and having to defend myself on here is not high up on my priority list. I know that I personally know members here that know I am not the type to make up something like this for attention. It is quite the opposite, I much would rather stick to myself. I posted b/c I know many of you got a good laugh out of the scenario, so why wouldnt I add what happened?
I cannot defend why a crazy mother would confront a minor in a public place. It is totally irrational IMO, but I do not think she is rational enough to realize that. I know the trainer from a friend who used to board with her (posted in the original thread) so she very well knows my face, enough to I am sure point me out to her clients if she wanted to. I have loads of photos floating around the internet from albums on webshots,flicker, etc. It would not be difficult for her to find them, and forward them to her clients. Its pretty darn easy for anyone to do that. I am involved in the horse community in the area, and this is not the first time I have been confronted by someone I did not know but knew me (although this was the first time it was not a polite/rational conversation).
I really wish I did make this up, that way I wouldnt have to be dealing with this. I guess in retrospect I should have called my uncle immediately, but that was not the first thing crossing my mind in the situation.
I would gladly post the link to her craigslist post, however it is no longer active, I am assuming b/c they have found their new horse.
If you really think I am that immature that I need attention from an online BB, then go ahead and think that. Nothing I can say or do will change your opinion. I know that, and I am not going to waste my time trying. I would be happy to PM anyone the phone number of the tack shop (no website) and you can be the ones to inconvenience the workers to find out.
So if the people here are going to try to make every post sound like some hellbent 12yro is let loose on the internet unsupervised, then I wont put up any changes anymore. Its not worth my time. I am trying to make light of a stressful situation, its not worth turning it into something it is not
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<snip>…I would gladly post the link to her craigslist post, however it is no longer active, I am assuming b/c they have found their new horse… <snip>…[/QUOTE]
Nevermind the fact that Craigslistings aren’t allowed here on COTH… per BB rules.
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It’s like an HBO version of Saddle Club. :lol:[/QUOTE]
It reminds me of “Riding High” which used to be on one of the Starz channels. I randomly came across it several years ago and I would get up at 6am to watch it before school. I was SO addicted.
Fleur - you should sell the movie rights to your story, it would make for an excellent plot.
Indeed, it would make for some epic drama! :lol:
As sane person you just stand back and scratch your head…
At seventeen I would probably fallen apart into a crying shaking mess, and these days I don’t get angry at folks who approach me in an injust manner, especially if it is so out of left field.
Keep this COTH line handy:
Go sell crazy someplace else, I am all stocked up!
I’m sorry, but you just CANT make stuff like this up LMFAO! There really ARE crazy people like this out there. I’ve dealt with my own for about 2 months, but it never got as far as Fleur’s debacle. But wow, these things happen and you look back asking WTF and how on earth do people get this far. The woman I dealt with was an alcoholic who hid bottles of vodka under her couch in another room where her family didn’t know about it. The people ARE out there…we just don’t always hear about it.
Fleur being 17 likely embelished a little bit of the details, but hey, who doesn’t??? Makes for a better story right? And sometimes the embelishments are just a way of describing the ‘emotions’ of the story too. You can say “the lady approached me” to convey someone came up to talk to you OR you can say “the lady stomped up with eyes wide, blah blah” to convey you were scared shitless when she came at you 
Either way, these lil updates have CRACKED ME UP and its amazing how people are so F’d up.
I think, Fleur, you should go to the local auction and pick yourself up a nice black horse for $50 that is ready to die of old age soon and offer it for sale at the new low price of $10k since you’ve finally ‘come to your senses’…ugh, crazy people are, ummm, crazy!
*oh and WHO in their ‘right mind’ could use the word Arapintaloosa in a serious screaming match and NOT break stride to LAUGH???
There’s always the possibility the Fleur is making this up. There’s the possibility that we’re all delusional and not at all what we appear to be. 
BUT I have to say, I can sadly believe the story. My rescue has been stalked by a crazy woman. She tears down our signs, has hung flyers saying we kill horses for fun, scribbles nasty notes on our flyers, etc. She posted a Craiglist ad stating that one of our directors’ was giving away her horses because she was tired of them and included the directors’ home address. (Luckily we got the ad removed quickly). She also confronted this particular director at a vet’s office and began screaming at her. And no one did/say anything. It is sad and frightening what people will do - and that no one will step in and defend someone getting screamed at in public.
The world is full of craziness.
OK cowgirljenn, I’m not even going to try to pronounce the name of that breed that you’ve identified!:lol:
However for all the skeptics, let me say that if you get off the internet and work in a big city (and perhaps a small town) you’ll think that TV is a waste of time and fantasy is reality.
One of my friends, in Atlanta, had a first husband who PRETENDED to be dead in Vietnam. She got benefits for herself and her new born baby. After a few years the benefits stopped coming. The army wouldn’t tell her why. She called “Action Line” on channel 11. The nice reporter came out, did an investigation and reported back to her that her “dead” husband had faked the whole thing, finished his tour in vietnam and had returned to Atlanta and was living there. My friend had to get a divorce. I bought her a tee shirt that said “My life is a soap opera”.
You cannot make some stuff up. I once owned a horse,unfortunately now long dead and buried, that everyone wanted to buy, and rumors would circulate that “Fireball” was for sale, and total strangers would call me and ask if he was for sale. My parents were livid because they didn’t want “Fireball” sold, and thought I was selling him. No way, I was a kid then, but then as now, I keep my horses forever.
I’m sure that the Tommy/Winston stalkers have fixated on Tommy, and are watching every move of Fleur and Tommy.
I’ve had a couple of run ins with people where the whole thing was so crazy all I could do was laugh, and then feel scared when I realized they weren’t joking.
I’m generally pretty cynical about stuff I read online… but having had some run ins with people like tack shop lady… it’s not that far out of the realm of possibility, LOL
You should have pulled out the collection of dressage whips and said
“We don’t need to wait for the show ring to end this! Pick your weapon!!! We duel to the death!”
What a nut job. I feel badly for you but on the upside, about 10 years from now these are going to make some great stories to tell your friends.
You can’t always rely on a truly demented person to ever accept reality or understand any other point of view besides what fits in with their delusions. I have run into several people in my life that were truly fruitcakes and there is no way to reason with them. The worst part is when you realize how warped they are and that there is no way to convince them of the real situation or that they need to stop bothering other people. The most important thing when confronted in a public place is to tell them to leave you alone and start dialing the cops-there is a time for polite and that’s definitely not it. And definitely don’t be afraid to ask for help-people are willing to get involved but not if they think it’s a friendly squabble or family thing, you need to make clear to everyone nearby that you need help and need the police-then they’ll back off.
Fleur-please do not stop posting because a certain few cannot appreciate the humor from a totally frustrating situation!! I appreciate anyone who can find a way to laugh when life sometimes sh!ts on you-it’s an excellent coping mechanism and it will carry you through some really tough times.
My mom was a nurse way back in the 1950s-when the mentally ill were usually institutionalized for extended periods if not for their entire life. She always told me (and maybe I should have been offended she felt that she needed to tell me this) that if for any reason I found myself in a mental institution, just admit that I’m crazy. The reasoning? Truly crazy people will deny that they are crazy-sane people will admit to their crazy streaks and that’s how you could differentiate between the two. Considering now that anyone who is institutionalized can check him/herself out of the institution whenever he/she wants, that leaves ALOT of crazy people in society!
I think that perhaps part of the reason that you were chosen by said trainer is because you are young and you admitted that you don’t like confrontation-and that person mistakenly thought she could bully you into getting her way-(ha-little did she know of the invisible COTH army behind you!) I’ve dealt with crazies, too-and you always learn something about life and about yourself after the ordeal is over. Listen to the good advice here, stay safe and keep the sense of humor!
Please keep the episodes coming!
Fleur, I for one believe your stories… I also enjoy them tremendously!.. and I hate to think that SOME posters will discourage you from posting in the future…
To those Unbelievers… IF the stories aren’t true, who cares? They are harmless!
But back to Fleur, if anything else happens with Tommy/Winston and the women who want him but can’t have him, PLEASE keep us posted!
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:lol::lol::lol:
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A stalker? Doesn’t sound like a stalker to me There is the trainer, who has some pretty far out & peculiar ideas and there is a woman who thinks she was buying a horse for her daughter .
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I would call that trainer a stalker…didn’t you read the initial thread where the trainer would drive by her paddocks looking at the horse, and it got to the point where she microchipped the horse and locked the gates in case the trainer drove by again? How is that NOT a stalker?
People are crazy in real life. Heck a few years ago, there was a woman who got a temporary restraining order against David letterman, claiming she sent him thoughts of love and he responded by gestures and codes. But now she wants him to quit harassing her and stay away from her. Some judge actually gave her a temporary restraining order and they were going to make it permanent-at least they had a hearing for that -and I think it was stopped.
Like they say truth is stranger than fiction.
She committed suicide in 1998.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E0CE7DC1130F931A15752C1A96E958260
Evidently David Caruso has one too and she’s even scarier.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/david-carusos-alleged-sta_n_138611.html
I don’t think that Fleur’s crazy trainer or the client are at that level of mental illness. And I think Fleur is handling it very well.
We once had a crazy neighbor/stalker that DEMANDED we sell our farm to him. He showed up unannounced numerous times…checkbook in hand saying "we would sell to him, or else"!:eek:
He would cut our fences and sit on the hill above the house with binoculers watching us and of course, the sheriff couldn’t do anything unless they SAW him tresspassing! They wouldn’t even issue a restraining order against him for lack of evidence.
This man ( 70 years old, 5 foot 3 ) showed up late one night and tried to start a physical fight, with my hubby. He actually tried to hit him. Hubby is 6,1’ and didn’t have much trouble keeping the little old guy from connecting. Next thing we know, a deputy and a canine unit pulls in. Seems the guy went home and called the law saying hubby “beat him up”:mad:
We had to engage an attorney and go to court to end it all.
A few months later, the little old guy went to jail for beating up his wife who suffered from senility.
YES, there are crazies out there!!!
