Stealing horses

[Paulfreebury]

They also use pieces of White china to mark area's where roosting pheasants are so they can poach them, I've also found paths of china shards leading across fields to remote barns that have had there stone tiles stripped.

[grim72]

  brassmonkey001 said:

I've heard of scarves being draped or tied to gates as if they had been dropped by a walker and another walker had kindly picked it up and hung it so it would be easily found by the owner, but in actual fact it's a signal that there is livestock worth stealing in this field.

 

I'm off to tie some scarfs around the crocodile enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo

[APC]

Wifes auntie had her horses mane plaited once. Nothing happened.

[s.varty]

  grim72 said:

I'm off to tie some scarfs around the crocodile enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo

 

Brilliant!:thumbup:

[Rich Rule]

A possibility...

 

Police force 'consulted warlock over horse plaiting' - Telegraph

[Dave Martin]

  central-services said:

sorry you lost me!

 

they stole the horse? what breed, age, colour, markings and have you got the passport - where from? - email me the info and i'll send out smoke signals.

 

not joking - serious.

 

The horse wasnt stolen. The mane was plaited twice and I have heard since that a few have been stolen in this area recently. It is a nice piebald cob type desirable to certain people that I am not allowed to mention

[Mark Bolam]

John Wayne had the right idea when it came to horse thieves....

[eggsarascal]

  Dave Martin said:

The horse wasnt stolen. The mane was plaited twice and I have heard since that a few have been stolen in this area recently. It is a nice piebald cob type desirable to certain people that I am not allowed to mention

 

Piebald horses aren't fetching any money at the moment, even fillys, so why anyone would wont to nick one is beyond me.

[oldwoodcutter]

Hereabouts its not so much scarfs or china,but a supermarket carrier bag tied to a hedge or fence,as if the wind has blown it there,usually white so highly visible on a dark night.Close by will be something readily convertable to cash.

[farmer_ben]

reports of lots of horses being stolen in suffolk, especially west/south suffolk, last few months. a number of stolen horses were said to have been photographed a few days previous by the same bloke...