I can’t believe “white” is actually a color option for this particular item! :lol:
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Something similar was recently posted on my town’s facebook page. The woman said a pile of manure was left on her private drive 20 feet in front of a neighbor’s home so she went and picked it up. Said it was “rude and disrespectful.” Now, I live in a town that has experienced ridiculous population growth over the past 20 years- upwards of 100%. Many people cite the “country, small town feel” as part of the reason they picked it. It is also a Right to Farm community, which in MA is a way of saying the farms were here first so if you don’t like how it smells too bad. A number of new comers to towns jumped on her bandwagon that someone should come back and pick it up, and a number of other, more reasonable town folk pointed out a number of facts about horse manure and the community we live in. The owner of the barn where the girls rode from jumped in and said yes, they went back to pick it up and it was already gone. Then some grumpy old townie (cough) chimed in and pointed out that their “private drive” was actually a TRAIL EASEMENT that connected a main road to a conservation area and in fact was a recommended parking area for users of the area. It was a damn TRAIL before it became a tiny road with a few houses on it. Then the barn owner went to find out EXACTLY where this manure pile had been, it was not anywhere near a house, it was at the mouth of the private drive, on the edge, near the woods. She posted a picture. OP was chased out of town by farmers and horse people with pitchforks and brooms. No, just kidding. But she did remove her entire post from facebook. Idiot.
Anyways, I would never ride in a cul-d-sac neighborhood or on a sidewalk unless it was a way to get from one trail to another, in which case there is typically a trail easement of some kind in place and frankly the stepford families should check that kind of thing out before they buy a house. BUT I would go back to pick it up if something happened, though the neighbors cannot expect that to happen immediately.
Is there an organization that can do a posting or mail an information flyer to neighbors with facts about the situation. Like, no, riders will not dismount to move manure because it is unsafe for a rider to dismount on a trail. They are not obligated to come back to remove manure but will make every effort to do so. Manure is great for your compost heap, but should not be put on fresh plants. It’s the same thing that you spend $20 bucks on in a bag at the garden store in the spring… Etc. Etc.
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Definitely clean off sidewalks. Sidewalks are for people to walk on.
I have not yet seen a fork of any kind that will clean up fresh manure well enough to satisfy non-horse people. The residue is equally as objectionable to them. You’d need a broom and a shovel. And maybe some water.
The devil in me likes the idea of bagging up the deposit and leaving it for later pickup just like dog walker would. Though after (literally) running into so much dog poop hanging in baggies in trees at eye height, I’d be sorely tempted to hang the bag of horse manure up there too.
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