Interesting posts here guys, nice one.

Im sure i've posted this somewhere before but i got spanked by a neighbour at the age of 13 for the crime of riding my bike along a walkway between her two fields. In my defence it was a public path and there were no rules about not riding your bike along it. Unfortunately i was going quite fast and i did spook some of her horses.

To this day i think i was treated unfairly. Not only did she herself break the law by driving her car (a landrover) up a walkway, not to mention the fact that she grabbed me off my bike, pulled my trousers and pants down right there in the open but she also used a riding crop on my bottom so hard i had marks for a few days afterwards. I'd like to see her try something like that nowadays lol.

At the same time i now appreciate more how she must have felt. Horses can be pretty spooky and they can hurt themselves if they bolt in small fields. Still i think she could probably have handled things a bit better.