DISRESPECTFUL TOURISTS MESSED WITH THE WRONG ARMED OFFICER! 

HAHAHA.......

I have had that same thought many times .

A brilliant comment Pat, I have said it over and over Horse Guards is not a catwalk it is not a fashion magazine shoot, the level of total "Look at me" attitudes we see there is amazing and the levels many go to for that photo is disgusting.🦘🦘💖💖

Exactly! Also, they act like they are at a petting zoo! Those horses are military trained animals! There should be no petting them! There should also be a no go zone around them! When I travel abroad, I am always respectful to the different culture and people around me! That is just engrained in me since I am that way in everyday life!

Thankyou,Kaafromoz.

I went to the UK and Europe as a kid in the early 70s. Very few photos featured me and or my parents. Most were pf what we were seeing. Just like the changing pf the guards and tge TOC which we were there for in June. Spent a lot of time there in the 90s. Some photos of friends etc in front of places or if we were somewhere like a pub, etc But nothing like this. I don't remember all these people going up and petting the horses. Having grown up with horses here in Texas and living in Ft Worth where our sheriff's, police are mounted in the DT area and at the Stockyards, you just don't do this.

I am totally speechless ..are these real people? They must be robots.. who the hell wants to spend their time doing this.. total respect to the guards and my country.. the rest of them are just astoundingly dim..

They look insane. Twats.

I wish that the Asian contingent in particular would quit with the ‘peace sign’ it’s been around in many guises since 1958, it’s getting pretty tedious now.

The people are making fools out of themselves posing.

Those people surging around the horse, that they do not know, are complete idiots.

they know stupidity has no cure

They've probably all grown up right around there, enough to know tourists are intolerable. But knowing it & having it happen to you is different. I can't imagine the level of tolerance they must have....& they're the ones with swords😅

I so agree !

@@chocolatcatsgoo$ one👍🏻

you cannot fence off on the pavement as it belongs to the council (sadly) and the military complex is beyond the large railings, IMHO would be to stop this from happening full stop tourists are full of their own self importance and priviledge, what these horses and guards have to put up with on a daily basis is disgusting........

@@roseann5126 WTF. No, any self-importance and privilege is in the big building behind them, further up the Mall, these are simply people who want a picture, a reminder of their time in London, tourists who bring £130 billion to the UK economy.

@@r.h.7338 It does not mean tourists can do what they want !!! The soldiers on the horses & police have job to do the building belongs to the Ministry of Defence ! The guards are there weather tourists are there or not !! If one goes to a country you behave !! Just like sports fans should! Tourists can see with out touching !!! Are they tourists or terrorists !! Who knows !! Because there have been fatal incidents with terrorists ! Bombings to the lifeguards cavalry regiment band years ago / stabbing attacks on military personnel & on civilians !!

@@roseann5126 It's part of the highway, that's why you can't fence it off.

It's easy to say "fence off the tourists" as Horse Guards Parade is the official entrance to both St James's and Buckingham Palaces. with access required as such. It's also the official entrance to the Horse Guards HQ and Museum. Plus the area in front of the Horses needs to be clear in case a horse gets spooked and moves violently around as its rider attempts to calm it down. A fence would be far more dangerous for all persons around than a fence limiting its movements. People can be moved far more quickly, out of harm's way of a frightened horse. Don't forget, the display of Guards and their horses has been going on for many decades, but it is the attitudes, moronic behaviour, ignorance and lack of even the most basic checks by modern day Tourists, of what they can do and / or cannot to do, when visiting London that makes for the scenes we are seeing in these videos. Of course, if British Tourists carried on in the same identical ways in these Tourists home countries, there'd be an outcry, yet foreign tourists have the mentality they can do as they damn well please!

And she was there for the duration!!

Poor poor horse!😊

​@@janwillis-owen1528just about to say that

I rode my bike and pet a horse. OMG how rude can you be!

Why does this guard allow so many people hold the reins?

Because they see everyone else doing it. There should be a small gated fence around which the police can open for the change of guard.

Not possible public footpath on council property not MOD . Dangerous for horses and troopers .

I agree with you haven't they seen a horse before twits feel sorry for the horses and guards😢

I think the ones who stand there with one hand on the horse or holding it making it look like they’re touching the horse, look utterly ridiculous. It’s all due to their monkey see, monkey do, mentality. They look perfectly stupid.

Why do they feel the need to do this c*** at all? Are they that so hard up on money they gotta get every dime they can.

What sort of emergency arm guard are their is there any one actually in the building why are they guarding it

@@heatherives8646it is an army barracks, a potential terrorist target.

@@simondobbs4480 Surely they should have better-equipped security then, instead of a guard on a horse with an antiquated lance?

@@gautamv952 have you seen the guys with machine guns wandering around amongst the public?

@@simondobbs4480 Right. So *they* are the real security, equipped and poised for action in the event of an emergency. The guard and horse are planted there only to serve one purpose: attracting tourists. And *that* is why we have a sea of tourists there.

Some havent or at least not close up

Oh shut up

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They’re behaving exactly as I said they would when the newly worded sign arrived, they’re treating it as a challenge, especially because they know they’ll get their 15 mins of fame on YT as well.

Why is somebody wearing something you don't like?bit critical and rude .

I thought the same thing. Who tells these tourists it's ok to dress like a bum. No shame.

They seem to have no shame when adding the titles, blatant lies to act as clickbait.

@@alangordon1677 Yes, I might stop watching. A lot of the channels seem to have clickbait headlines.

The one inside the gate carrying a gun. That’s who

@@margarethill8121 Firstly, thank you, although the video I watched twice, showed nothing of tourists messing with an armed guard. Secondly , you didn't have to be so tetchy. You weren't forced to respond. Have a good day.

@@christinepage181 oh well.

Theres always several that slip back over to the horses arent there when the police and soldiers move away..time the horses dealt with the crowd control..

I guess he’s talking about the people trying to goin around the 8:44 mark. They weren’t disrespectful and the officer wasn’t mean.

They are not alone. The _real_ guards are armed policemen, some of them carrying automatic weapons, as you can see at 7:14. This is not to say that the mounted guards are not _real._ They are real soldiers, but their job here is as honor guards.

Open your eyes

You should give london city walks a follow too, good footage with commentary, he knows some of the guards so can get inside gossip, e Wicked sense of humour too

No..but people do not care..they do as they please..

in some cases yes, but this wasnt one of those cases and she really shouldnt have been doing it.

YES!! They are being exposed to so many bacteria and viruses. We all know that children especially are little incubators for a lot of illnesses. Why can't there be a sign that defines respect for all these idiots.

Yep. I saw that too. LOL

Narcissistic people.

I think this RU-vidr has had people use his footage…I look past it. Don’t really notice it anymore

Angers me no end..No respect ..but so long as they can get away with it. They'll do it. I think these types who maul the poor horse actually need a shrink, or a partner.....

@leonmary . A barrier is not possible , it's a public footpath in Whitehall , also if the horse became unsettled and ran forward it would be dangerous for both horse and trooper .

If they had a painted perimeter then those poor horses would be left alone..