Dear Crazy Trainer,
I talked to Tommy and he says that the idea of being called Winston, much less Winny has him agasted and he couldn’t possibly come live with you. Especially since he is secure in his masculinity and loves his pink.
Love and kisses,
fleur de duc
Or the short version:
Dear Crazy Trainer,
Fruitbat you.
fleur de duc
[QUOTE=ybiaw;3666496]
Did she write that in crayon, per chance?[/QUOTE]
Lol. That was my first question, too!
[QUOTE=HeartsongHorses;3666567]
I would keep the email and document any exchanges you have with this person. If she does decide to get any more crazy on you you will have something to hand to the authorities.
I also would call the police (on a non emergency number). Tell them that you want to make a report. They probably won’t do anything to her, which is fine, but the report will be documented. If you ever have a serious run in with her, the police with have record of your report, and they can take appropriate action based on her history of harrassment. Since you are 17 the authorities will take this much more seriously than if you were older.
Show the man who lives on the property the email you recieved.
Talk to your parents/the other adults in your life about what is going on.
Congratulations on your barn BTW.
Char[/QUOTE]
I agree with this, contact the police and file a report. The won’t do anything and they will tell you that they can’t do anything HOWEVER it is kept on file so you have strike one and if anything EVER happens you have proof, in addition to the emails. It is sad this sport is such a cover your ass type but look at what happens to people when they don’t have lease agreements or agreements for horses that go on trial. These are hard times and people are desperate. Not that she is going to do anything BUT you still want a record of her bothering you and wanting to take the horse, via a “lease” to her own property…
ETA… I agree with everyone who says, don’t respond to her, that will just feed the fire. Contact the police, you already contacted the barn owner and locked up your stuff. You don’t owe her an explanation, your horse is not up for lease anymore and you already said that, don’t bother with her. You won’t change her mind, or her mental problems so spare yourself from the negativity.
Look up “borderline personality”–sounds like psycho trainer might fit the bill. Don’t respond, it makes things worse. Delete and block her emails. Let it pass.
And don’t advertise on Craigslist! 
Good to know that the crazy hasn’t dried up in the horse world…
I hate to admit it but I can’t stop giggling. Renaming someone else’s horse? the “Hell Spiral?”
The first email I thought this thread was going to be about Nigerian Scammers, but the second… wow.
It’s a shame it’s written, not spoken. Because this warrants a real… “um, you do realize you said that out loud?”
Life is too short to deal with insane people who aren’t actually members of your family.
Print the email out, date it, and stick it into a file just in case anything ever happens. (I doubt that it will, but always be prepared).
Don’t answer the email.
Go out and get yourself some sloe gin (pink gin), and make yourself a Pink Lady this evening, and drink a toast to the wackos of the world.
PT, I am aghasted that you’re suggesting a minor buy alcohol and consume it! :eek: :lol:
Fleur’s only 17, so isn’t yet allowed to drink that nectar of the gods called alcohol.
I however, am old enough to be this child’s grandmother, or at least her really old mother, and have forgotten about sloe gin. I may just have to make a stop at the liquor store on the way home from work… :winkgrin:
Yep, print out everything, date it, put it in a safe place and put the BIG IG on the nut bar.
OMFG. This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
I will one day have a wall of shame in my tack room for just this sort of thing. And then every time I have a bad day, I will take myself and a glass of wine down to my tackroom, whack my dammit doll against a chair and read my wall of shame entries. Instant mood swing. :lol:
If you’re really worried, keep records of her e-mails and take appropriate action if it escalates. My bet is she’s just your harmless neighborhood psycho trainer. Everybody knows one. :winkgrin:
OK, we all agree… trainer is a fruitbat and doesn’t deserve a response. But Fleur, if you’re really concerned about mischief, then I think you should do 2 things.
Call the police and tell her you’ve called the police and filed a report with them as you found her email to be threatening.
Micro chip your horse. Its very inexpensive and will give you peace of mind.
After all, most dangerously illogical behaviour is committed by fruitbats. If she’s wound up enough to send you that email in the first place, who knows what she’s capable of, and is sounds as though Fleur is acquainted well enough with the trainer and her ‘students’ to have good reason for concern.
Epic win.
Wow, someone is definately a few sandwiches short of a lunch box.
That being said, like others have mentioned, just stow those emails away in a folder somewhere and don’t respond back to her. Im actually taking a victimology course atm, and she sounds alot like the chronic attention grabber/stalkerish people we’ve read about. The more you respond back, the longer the emails/etc will go on and etc… just ignore her and she won’t get the satisfaction of getting you riled up.
I can understand how you feel though, if someone had the audacity to email me crap like that I’d have to really restrain myself from replying… what a fruitcup.
LOL, you sound like a WOWer.
I would ignore her and COVER him in pink. Pink blanket, halter, splint boots, bell boots, the works.
[QUOTE=Ambrey;3667182]
LOL, you sound like a WOWer.[/QUOTE]
Don’t make me break out the WoW speak. There’s been one or two threads on COTH (not this one) that I’ve fought not to put tl;dr as a reply. :lol: Old habits die hard.
Fleur, I second what Trevelyan said about getting your horse microchipped and filing a police report. What she’s doing certainly qualifies as verbal harassment, and they will file it away in case, God forbid, something does happen to your boy.
Or, the more amusing route, make her a nice certificate of congratulations informing her that she fails at life. ;):lol:
Ignore her.
If she is cruising by your farm, checking out your horse, you don’t want to agitate her cause she is very jealous of you having this horse that she covets.
If you can, move him to a field that cannot be seen from the road and put up a gate to your driveway and lock it.
Pink on geldings? So what? :winkgrin: Maybe you should dress him in blue to make everyone happy? No wait, maybe cothers should decide what color he should be turned out it? What does this matter to her?
Are you sure you don’t live near the crazy crayola trainer?
Don’t agitate her. If she reads this board, she’ll be mad enough already.
By some chance does this woman have an older sister in England who lets her daughter chase horses in other people’s pastures
I got yelled at for saying O RLY on a political thread
/golfclap
[QUOTE=Ambrey;3667245]
I got yelled at for saying O RLY on a political thread
/golfclap[/QUOTE]
NO WAI.
She…renamed your horse? In her own head? Because she thought the name you - his OWNER - gave to him was not good enough somehow?
O_o
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