They always come out at night.
One of the jobs I do as a courier is to serve legal papers on people. As I'm one of the larger riders at the courier company I seem to get chosen to do this quite often often late at night or in the early hours of the morning just to be sure someone will be there. A few months back I had to serve papers on someone down in Devon and Plymouth, they had two houses so I was paid to go to both. The first house took a fair while to find, it was in the middle of a forest and we only had a house name and a post code for it.
Standing at the side of a country road in the middle of a forest on the phone to the company trying to pin down exactly where the place was I could hear a noise of in the distance in the forest, the noise started getting louder like something was forcing it's way through the forest. Then I realised it was a lot of some things and it was getting a lot louder. Then it started getting really loud and a bit frantic, I edged my way over to the other side of the road and jumped over a wall ducking down all the time on the phone and the person at the company on the other end could also hear it. Whatever it was finally passed me on the other side of the road without leaving the forest and I could hear them moving further and further away. Must admit it scared the shit out of me.
I finally found the house I was looking for and started to make my way down to Plymouth. As I was riding along this country road I could see a white shape in the distance on the edge of the road, it captured my attention completely. As I got closer it started running at me so slammed on the brakes as I realised it was a pony and finally realised I was in the New Forest and the noise before was also New Forest Ponies.
Been down to the New Forest a few times since for work always in the dark and without fail I always seem to get Ponies running at me.
(Sickpup, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:49, 6 replies)

umm, Plymouth is in Devon
the New Forest very much isn't.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 8:52, closed)

you're
right. Which just goes to tell you how little I know of hampshire and devon and why I didn't know I was in the New Forest.
(Sickpup, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 12:36, closed)

but that doesn't answer the question
of why once you had found the house in Devon you were on your way to Plymouth through the New Forest.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 16:20, closed)

If the title of your post is a reference to Aliens
Then I think you'll find it should be "They mostly come out at night ... mostly"
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 13:06, closed)

hmm
Aren't there Exmoor and Dartmoor ponies?
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 13:28, closed)

more likely to be a herd of deer I'd say

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 16:21, closed)