Owl Dead

force_ten

Iceweasel wrote: »

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.

I dont have an official link to it but it is something that i had in my head

I was told that if you hit a game bird on the road and stop to pick it up you could be prosecuted for poaching, if you run it over and the car following you stops to pick it up then it is classed as road kill

it probably does exist in some ancient byelaws but i very much doubt that it would ever be enforced

aardvaak

lovinituk wrote: »

Is the OP drunk, or just feels like a little trolling?!

Move along please, nothing to see here!

Is the OP drunk - Of course not at 9.30 in the morning

trolling - definitely not

aardvaak

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

He's good.



Loving the C class road and his first encounter with daytime run lights.

Why do people feel the need to read poster previous posts before replying - Is it to make them feel good and superior?

shop-to-drop

We don't need to reread your posts Aardvark they are extremely memorable.

aardvaak

neilmcl wrote: »

Are protected, yes, against "intentional" acts. I'd summise that's not really the case here unless the OP is saying the lorry driver is deliberately roaming back roads looking for owls to attack.

I did not say " deliberately roaming"

Captaincodpiece

aardvaak wrote: »

Why do people feel the need to read poster previous posts before replying - Is it to make them feel good and superior?

To get a feeling of the level we're dealing with.

If you're not drunk or trolling this is only one logical reason left.

DominicH

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.

Unless it's a swan, in which case only the Queen can pick it up.

aardvaak

force_ten wrote: »

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

The reason why there are so many Pheasants dead on the road is that the so called game keepers are too lazy to spread feed in the fields or woods (as they used to) instead they chuck feed of the back of moving vehicles along the road.
We have it a lot around here too.

aardvaak

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.

Yes totally correct - I am not sure if it's enforced though

Captaincodpiece

aardvaak wrote: »

Yes totally correct - I am not sure if it's enforced though

Link then.

To either law or urban myth as you don't specify which is correct.