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Slightly OT, but relevant: I still want less horeshit. The Toronto police / RCMP ride horses down the bike paths in Toronto, and sometimes they leave giant shits in the middle of the path. The disrepect to cyclists and the rest of the city is immense. It's dangerous, it's smelly and it's extremely rude. They do this in Montreal too - the police horses leave giant shits all over the Mont Royal paths. Please stop leaving horseshit everywhere Canada. Seriously.

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"Look, I'm riding a horse! Isn't it pretty?"

In Boston we'd have cop-horses leaving their several-gallon-sized gifts all over town. Once a coworker (known for paroxysms both inside and outside the company) encountered some in front of our building and he got hopping mad on the phone to start screaming. I cooled him down enough to say it was in front of the fast food store on the first floor, not our business, because if the BPD has any blacklist for assholes he was going to get us put on it.

We have a lot of trails that hikers, bikes and horses share. But then some of the trails will allow hikers and horses but not bikes. This really pisses off the bikers, since there doesn't seem to be a reason for it. And in general, a lot of people are really pissed off that dog owners can get fined for not picking up a tiny dog turd while equestrians see no threat of that for their horse dropping a huge load in the middle of the trail.

That's interesting. A lot of trails here that are crushed limestone and such near ranches have to explicitly post signs that say "No horses" to also stop this problem.

Classic modern day problem. Maybe I should go amend the article.

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