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  1. glelin96's Avatar
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (Original post by Hopple)
    It's a risk because it used its teeth, something it isn't supposed to do.
    The horse would be a risk because it bucked, something it isn't supposed to do.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    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
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
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    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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
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    I'm glad. These puns really stirrup a lot of emotion in me.
    And they spur me on to greatness!
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    Easier to hit stragglers with a baton from a horse than from a van.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
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    And they spur me on to greatness!
    Just be careful what you eat on your journey. You don't want to get the trotts.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
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    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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    Horses are massive ****ers.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (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?
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (Original post by Loucornall)
    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
    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.
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    Re: Why are horses used in riots?
    (Original post by pedmond)
    Horses are massive ****ers.
    yes but the bigger they are the more gentle they tend to be, its the ponies you need to watch for, little ****s lol
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