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markymoan · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:31 Post subject: Green lane stingers

These where picked up in the last few days at Eakring Road Notts.
They cant have been put down by the average rambler, I think some
silly fanatical as these will make a horse lame Evil or Very Mad

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DYLAN · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:35 Post subject:

They must be sickoes and need locking up.
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markymoan · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:42 Post subject:

I can cope with a puncture but if a horse stood on one it could kill the rider and maybe the horse.
Even seriously hurt a walker if they stood on one so I dont think its ramblers.
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Rhanagar · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:42 Post subject:

Report it to the police buddy. I would of taken a photo of where they were as well.

In one word "disgusting"
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omega63 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 21:05 Post subject:

WHICH SAD "BLEEP"!!!! Shocked

could do something as DANGEROUS!!! as this, the countryside is a place for everyone to enjoy. This action is to clearly to disable a motor vehicle if only temporary at cost to the driver Mad

, god only knows what would happen if like the members are saying a "walker/rambler, horse, and wildlife" was to fall foul of one of these deadly contraptions Sad

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gary820 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 21:43 Post subject:

There's some stupid arseholes who really don't think!
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richard wilkinson · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 21:45 Post subject:

*beep*

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Da Gregsta · ** Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Posts: 76 Location: Kent

We had similar down here a few years back...they were welding those U shaped fencing nails togther 3 at a time, and throwing them in the ruts down one of the byways near here...Took out a few tyres,but also injured a horse IIRC.
More likely to be the landowners who's land sadly got "played" on regularly by some idiots and would have these fencing bits kicking around, but could have been ramblers I guess as they never walk in the muddy ruts.
The Police were involved I think, and the byway is now, years later, one of the permit only schemes that seems to work well and keep the idiots out.

The Crusader · * Joined: 14 Aug 2011 Posts: 19 Location: Powys, Wales

Nasty looking booby traps, and it's not just the land owners that do this sort of things. Residents to the local towns or villages seem to take it on themselves to put a stop to other people, outsiders, using what they think is their part of the countryside. And this is not just the case with 4x4's also equestrian, motor/mountain biking and walking events get sabotaged and booby trapped too.

I work for a 4x4 Medical response team here in Wales that covers all aspects of outdoor events and we have come across quiet a few disturbing forms of sabotage, even when we have the full permission of the land owners. We've encountered 1" Nails in wood, designed to puncture the Tyres on mountain bikes half way down a timed section of a route, which caused blow outs at high speeds, the riders losing control and crashing injuring themselves and damaging their rather expensive bikes, we relised the nails were there after the third rider that crashed had one of these strips of thin plywood with four 1" nails stuck in his right arm.

We've also had route markers for a Horse event being all moved by idiots to direct the contestants in the wrong direction, the seriousness of this was they led the horses and riders to a quarry cliff that dropped 20 meters in to a rocky quarry, which for a horse and rider is a death sentence. Needles to say the event had to be called off as the Police were bought in, but they could do nothing. We've also had wires tied across tracks on event routes, trees cut down to block major tracks needed for emergency access and important route markers in remote areas going missing and walkers getting lost.

My advice to anyone that encounters these nasty traps is to report them to the police with an exact map reference to where you found them as well as give them the evidence, also report them to your local Highways and Byways officer with your local council because if these are rights of ways then an enforcement or restraining order can be sought if it is the landowner.