Might also be the specific width of the pattern. Still though, something is useful here.
Maybe they just didn't want to trample on the flag :rat-salute: :flag-gay-pride:
My best guess is that the horse thinks it's looking at uneven terrain and doesn't want to walk on it because horse legs are made of paper. Interesting stuff, I'd like to hear what someone who actually knows shit about horses thinks.
Horses are prey animals and also fucking idiots, so that combines into being scared of practically everything; plastic bags, ducks, the wind, water, a field that didn't have sheep in it last week having sheep in now, anything. The story of how alexander the great got his horse relies on it being scared of its own fucking shadow, and thats the most believable part of it. Theres a section in some horse trials where you have to lead/ride your horse over a flat plastic tarp on the ground, and honestly, at a lot of them, its regarded as the hardest part.
Horses assume there's a 50/50 chance that anything they can't immediately identify as another horse, a person, or some grass is absolutely going to eat them. Of course, some horses/breeds are way more chill and laidback, but those aren't exactly the types of animal that a cop is gonna want.
Super interesting one! And anything intended for this purpose would have a lot of deniability.
when we're farming potatoes post-collapse, we can paint stripe patterns around our living quarters to keep invaders away
we can even paint stripe patterns in random spots to trick invaders into thinking someone lives there, and then play post-apocalypto-offline-fletchinglvl69-minecraft with them
Could be a similar effect to a visual cattle grid. The wiki article calls it a "virtual" cattle grid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_grid
In short, lines on the ground fool the animal's sight into thinking that their hooves might get stuck, so they avoid it.
