Owl Dead

force_ten

matttye wrote: »

I saw a pheasant run across the road and jump into the side of two people riding a motorbike. They must've felt/seen it but didn't stop, and the pheasant was killed instantly.


I'm an animal lover and hate to see things like that. I'd stop no matter what I hit.

I live in a rural area where there is a shoot and the raise pheasants, and for some reason they seem to congregate on the roads and you see dozens of them dead on the road every day

the game keepers drive the road four or five times a day removing the dead birds as so many people were complaining, you see people doing the stupidest things to try and avoid the pheasants and I once saw a head on crash where three people were taken to hospital and two cars where written off but the pheasant survived but the following day it was probably shot by some hooray henry with his shotgun

AdrianC

matttye wrote: »

I'd stop no matter what I hit.

Why?

- If it's dead, it's dead. Unless you plan on taking it home to bury it, there's nothing you can do.
- If it's badly injured, are you going to wring its neck or batter it with your wheelbrace? No, me neither. Or are you going to pick it up and take it to the vet?
- If it's more lightly injured, are you going to track it down wherever it's run off to, and coo soothingly to it whilst you wrap it lovingly in a jacket and take it to the vet?

By all means, stop at the first safe opportunity to ensure your vehicle's safe to continue and not too badly damaged, but...

force_ten

AdrianC wrote: »

Why?

- If it's dead, it's dead. Unless you plan on taking it home to bury it, there's nothing you can do.
- If it's badly injured, are you going to wring its neck or batter it with your wheelbrace? No, me neither. Or are you going to pick it up and take it to the vet?
- If it's more lightly injured, are you going to track it down wherever it's run off to, and coo soothingly to it whilst you wrap it lovingly in a jacket and take it to the vet?

By all means, stop at the first safe opportunity to ensure your vehicle's safe to continue and not too badly damaged, but...

I know somebody that hit a pheasant with his car stopped and jumped out thinking yes pheasant for tea, grabbed the bird off the road which is actually illegal and threw it on the rubber mat in the passenger foot well and carried on his way

after five minutes lying under the heater the bird that was only stunned was up and flapping about the car which scared the life out of him he pulled over opened all the doors and had a hell of a job trying to grab the stupid thing to get it out of the car

neilmcl

matttye wrote: »

I saw a pheasant run across the road and jump into the side of two people riding a motorbike. They must've felt/seen it but didn't stop, and the pheasant was killed instantly.


I'm an animal lover and hate to see things like that. I'd stop no matter what I hit.

I hit/was hit by a pheasant on the A1 at 70mph causing over £400 worth of damage to my car. Was I supposed to stop the car in the middle of the carriageway and go looking for the poor bird!

Captaincodpiece

neilmcl wrote: »

I hit/was hit by a pheasant on the A1 at 70mph causing over £400 worth of damage to my car. Was I supposed to stop the car in the middle of the carriageway and go looking for the poor bird!

aardvaak wrote: »

Just human decency would be nice - but what would you expect from a lorry driver?

Stupid but humane.

Iceweasel

force_ten wrote: »

I know somebody that hit a pheasant with his car stopped and jumped out thinking yes pheasant for tea, grabbed the bird off the road which is actually illegal and threw it on the rubber mat in the passenger foot well and carried on his way

after five minutes lying under the heater the bird that was only stunned was up and flapping about the car which scared the life out of him he pulled over opened all the doors and had a hell of a job trying to grab the stupid thing to get it out of the car

Wow - how is this illegal? Have you a link to the relevant law?

There are loads of pheasants killed on the roads here in NE Scotland and plenty people are known to pick them up for the pot before the foxes run away with them.

Very tasty they are too - or so they say, cough,cough - and cheaper than the frozen ones in Lidl.

OnanTheBarbarian

Isn't it the case of you are not allowed to pick up what you have run over, but the next vehicle along can?

Maybe urban legend, I don't know.

Captaincodpiece

OnanTheBarbarian wrote: »

Isn't it the case of you are not allowed to pick up what you have run over, but the next vehicle along can?

Maybe urban legend, I don't know.

Need to ask someone who's studied law.

shegirl

matttye wrote: »

I saw a pheasant run across the road and jump into the side of two people riding a motorbike. They must've felt/seen it but didn't stop, and the pheasant was killed instantly.


I'm an animal lover and hate to see things like that. I'd stop no matter what I hit.

I once saw a buzzard fly into the wheel of a motorbike, after going in head first it's body was tossed straight back out onto the side of the road, jerking and completely headless -right next to me.The motorbike carried on (no I didn't see where the head went)


Should the rider have suddenly stopped himself and risked his life and that of others due to a dead bird? No.

flicks

I once hit and killed an Owl. I stopped and went back but don't know why I bothered.


When I got there it didn't give a hoot.