Comments on: The ongoing war against passion-driven stupidity

By: John Parker

John Parker — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:47:33 +0000

Your remark “It’s like being pursued by a T1000 from a particularly dim future”, is the best laugh I’ve had in some time! I stumbled on all this, actually looking for the horse photo, to prove a point to a friend.
Job done, thanks! Pity you aren’t on fb.

By: Midori no Saru

Midori no Saru — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:14:16 +0000

Looking at some of the replies I would say you’re flogging a dead horse here.

By: kozzik

kozzik — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:42 +0000

i think the picture of the dead horse os wrong but the event was to. yes i agree with the ban but there was no need to put a dead horse in the middle of the road with a sign stuck in the middle of it!!!!!!!! lol.

By: tabascokid

tabascokid — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:30:29 +0000

It’s always good to hear that intelligent people are prepared to leave comments too. The internet is a dangerous playground that is often only filled with those who need to vent or fight.

In case you missed it, there’s been an update to this saga..

http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2008/06/30/the-war-continues/

By: Joey Ramone

Joey Ramone — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:51:32 +0000

Hi Leon
The unthinking comments here just show what people are really like unfortunately. I can remember commenting on this picture on flickr ages ago, I can’t believe its still causing disturbance… its sad that people are complaining about seeing the image of the event, rather than the event which it documents, as if you stuck the sign in the horse! Its a strange old world we live in… its sad too.
Guardians of the countryside? Don’t make me laugh…

Joey

By: Mark (aka bitrot)

Mark (aka bitrot) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:57:09 +0000

Great photojournalism, shame about the idiots. It’s a credit to you that you deal with them so fairly and courteously. Keep up the good work!

By: snakester

snakester — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

Leon

I suppose it’s one of the pitfalls of the profession you are in that in the same way a magnet will attract iron filings, you will end up attracting emails from both the completely stupid, and weirdo’s who have way too much time on their hands. How anyone can ask you to take the picture down is beyond me. It was a news story. The Countryside Alliance supporters ( or whichever similar group ) staged the event, did so to try and cause shock at the Labour party conferenct of that year. In hindsight, I would guess they were probably quite relieved the photograph didn’t receive a wider covering as doing such things, even to dead animals is completely out of order, and would probably have backfired on their cause.

Back to the emails. I guess you can only go so far trying to educate people as to the merits of why such terrible atrocities such be shown. People need to be told that that scene was staged by so called ‘horse lovers’. The ban was put in place by the government, and yet three years later, I don’t recall ever driving past a dead horse in the middle of a high street.

As for bob ( with a little ‘b’ ), I don’t think the poor guy had the mental capacity to take in both the photograph, and the fact you were not one of the perpetrators.

Keep up the good work Neon, and regard the hostile emails as an amusement on the side.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:20:12 +0000

lol!

By: tabascokid

tabascokid — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:10:45 +0000

Good lord, it’s like being pursued by a T1000 from a particularly dim future..

By: J Stamp

J Stamp — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:51:19 +0000

It’s not the site which is distressing, and am not distress to start with, it was the image, not the story. and it’s Jonathan, I did the JonathAn, because you thought my name was JonathOn