Owl Dead

aardvaak

On my way home today on a small country road there was a very large artic lorry travelling in front of me and looked out of place on such a small road

I saw this lorry hit an owl and it fluttered at the side of the road - I went back to look for it but could not find it.

I looked at the markings on the lorry but there was no telephone number on it only what looked like a very large reg number printed on the back, which wasn't it's.

Had I seen a phone number I would of phoned this idiots transport manager to cause him trouble for his disgusting behavior in not stopping - it wouldn't of taken much and he might of helped.

Surely he could not of been in that much of a hurry. I hope he has a long think about it but was probably just another thick lorry driver.

Money_maker

You wanted him to stop a large articulated lorry on 'such a small road' with you driving behind him because he hit an owl? Sounds like a safe driver to me.

Strider590

Probably didn't see it before or after......... He's driving a 20 something tonne truck and i'm sure everyone would have appreciated said truck blocking this small country road.

Also, TBH I don't slow/stop/swerve to avoid anything smaller than a dog. It's just too dangerous.

StrongWork

aardvaak wrote: »

On my way home today on a small country road there was a very large artic lorry travelling in front of me and looked out of place on such a small road

I saw this lorry hit an owl and it fluttered at the side of the road - I went back to look for it but could not find it.

I looked at the markings on the lorry but there was no telephone number on it only what looked like a very large reg number printed on the back, which wasn't it's.

Had I seen a phone number I would of phoned this idiots transport manager to cause him trouble for his disgusting behavior in not stopping - it wouldn't of taken much and he might of helped.

Surely he could not of been in that much of a hurry. I hope he has a long think about it but was probably just another thick lorry driver.

Not sure if serious.

But then again the highlighted parts do have a lovely sense of irony about them.

GwylimT

Stopping on such roads is dangerous, that is why you don't stop unless absolutely necessary.

Norman_Castle

I'm appalled that you left without finding the owl. If it fluttered at the side of the road then vanished, how do you know its dead?.

topdaddy_2

Why should anyone care about an owl, let alone a lorry driver with places to be? Roadkill is not of much concern unless it does damage to the vehicle.

aardvaak

topdaddy wrote: »

Why should anyone care about an owl, let alone a lorry driver with places to be? Roadkill is not of much concern unless it does damage to the vehicle.

What a selfish attitude.

topdaddy_2

aardvaak wrote: »

What a selfish attitude.

Unless the lorry driver was a vet he'd been no use to an owl if he even noticed a large lorry hitting a hollow boned bird. Same goes for the majority of drivers. At what point do you not stop; fox, hedgehog, field vole, gnat? Or do go all doolittle over everything you hit?

aardvaak

topdaddy wrote: »

Why should anyone care about an owl, let alone a lorry driver with places to be? Roadkill is not of much concern unless it does damage to the vehicle.

let alone a lorry driver with places to be

At 5.30 in the afternoon?

The lorry was far too big to be there - there seems no reason for it - not a main 'A' or 'B' road.

The driver probably thought he didn't care as he knew he had little marking on his vehicle so unlikely to be traced

Captaincodpiece

aardvaak wrote: »

On my way home today on a small country road there was a very large artic lorry travelling in front of me and looked out of place on such a small road

I saw this lorry hit an owl and it fluttered at the side of the road - I went back to look for it but could not find it.

I looked at the markings on the lorry but there was no telephone number on it only what looked like a very large reg number printed on the back, which wasn't it's.

Had I seen a phone number I would of phoned this idiots transport manager to cause him trouble for his disgusting behavior in not stopping - it wouldn't of taken much and he might of helped.

Surely he could not of been in that much of a hurry. I hope he has a long think about it but was probably just another thick lorry driver.

Has the road traffic act changed this week?

You're not required to stop if you hit and owl so you wouldn't have caused him any trouble.

You may have made yourself look thick though.