Why are horses used in riots?

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username208984

I'd assumed police horses are also trained quite well so the most easily spooked horses aren't led directly into a riot, causing a large scale police rodeo challenge to break out

Reply 41

Dorito

Original post by Drewski

Now now, let's not have you all jockeying around for the best horse-related gag. The thread will just gallop away from you otherwise.

Mate, that's awful. You've had a mare.

Reply 42

thunder_chunky

Original post by Drewski

Now now, let's not have you all jockeying around for the best horse-related gag. The thread will just gallop away from you otherwise.

:awesome:

Those are terrible. You Mustang out with the wrong people.

Reply 43

Hopple

Original post by glelin96

The horse would be a risk because it bucked, something it isn't supposed to do.

I don't think you see the difference between and aggressive attack and an accident.

Reply 44

AdamskiUK

Original post by oddsox

Police horses are freaking massive scary things. You wouldn't win one of those in a fight...

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my GT-I9100

Actually, you could quite happily win one in a fight. I don't suppose rules and regulations allow horse gambling, but I really can't see why not.

Reply 45

Drewski

Original post by Dorito

Mate, that's awful. You've had a mare.

Original post by thunder_chunky

Those are terrible. You Mustang out with the wrong people.

Kudos.

Hay, for an off the hoof remark I don't think it was too bad. After all, with punning you've just got to get straight back into the saddle.

Reply 46

glelin96

Original post by robo donkey

I'd assumed police horses are also trained quite well so the most easily spooked horses aren't led directly into a riot, causing a large scale police rodeo challenge to break out

A friend that I met through horses parents breed horses. They have had a lifetime in the horse trade, their parents did it also. I rode a horse that they were selling as a quality, pedigree lined, extremely well trained horse, I got onto it, as it wasn't my horse I was uncomfortable, the horse picked up on this and bucked. I need a lot of time to gain trust in a horse, if I had gained trust in the horse I would have been fine and so would the horse as a result.

I don't know how the police force stand with treating their horses, I don't know if each person that performs crowd control has their own horse they can ride or not.

Reply 47

thunder_chunky

Original post by Drewski

Kudos.

Hay, for an off the hoof remark I don't think it was too bad. After all, with punning you've just got to get straight back into the saddle.

I'm glad. These puns really stirrup a lot of emotion in me.

Reply 48

Drewski

Original post by thunder_chunky

I'm glad. These puns really stirrup a lot of emotion in me.

And they spur me on to greatness!

Reply 49

Manitude

Easier to hit stragglers with a baton from a horse than from a van.

Reply 50

thunder_chunky

Original post by Drewski

And they spur me on to greatness!

Just be careful what you eat on your journey. You don't want to get the trotts.

Reply 51

glelin96

Original post by Hopple

I don't think you see the difference between and aggressive attack and an accident.

Yes I do, but it is entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the animal did it intentionally or not, they caused harm to a human. This means that they may do it in the future. You go and get the best trained dog and make an action as though you are going to hit it, chase it around the house and back it into a corner, then see what it does.

Reply 52

Loucornall

Original post by glelin96

I don't know the law but I would assume that if the horse was spooked, it would be put out of commission and might as a result be put down? I don't know, I'm just putting something forward. There was a case I saw on the news a while ago where a police sniffer dog was doing it's job looking for drugs, the drug user who's house was being searched, grabbed the dog, the dog got spooked, bit and as a result of this got put down. How is this fair?

when i horse spooks it tends to buck,rear or bolt, I actually ride an ex police horse he was de-commisioned due to sporadic lameness, he is an absolute gentleman, huge (17.2 hands) and when he has finished his breakfast in the morning passes his feed bucket back over the fence to you.
i hate horses being used by police, armed forces and being from by blackpool am sick of seeing them on the landoes with pissed up hen and stag dos scaring them.
there is no need to put the horses in distress when there are alternative methods, i don't dispute that horses are working animals and (most) horses love to please their rider but putting them in danger is not a necessity

Reply 53

glelin96

Original post by Manitude

Easier to hit stragglers with a baton from a horse than from a van.

Thank you. There is one reason that I truly can't dispute.

+1 for you it is sir. :biggrin:

Reply 54

Drewski

Original post by thunder_chunky

Just be careful what you eat on your journey. You don't want to get the trotts.

Please, it can be taken at a canter. Unlike some I'm not wearing blinkers and actually embrace that final furlong.

Reply 55

pedmond

Horses are massive ****ers.

Reply 56

thunder_chunky

Original post by Drewski

Please, it can be taken at a canter. Unlike some I'm not wearing blinkers and actually embrace that final furlong.

So you aren't a neigh-sayer then?

Reply 57

glelin96

Original post by Loucornall

What was his case that caused him to be decommissioned?

I entirely agree with you. We have had many animals that have been re-homed due to 'aggression' which has been entirely down to either the way the animal was used or the way it was treated. I do however not know how the law stands with horses, if you could enlighten me, that would be great.