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I've just ran over a pheasant :(

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lexiepix · 26/02/2015 17:32

On a narrow country lane, doing 50, they usually move out of the way but this one stayed right in the middle.

It made such a thud, a huge cloud of feathers afterwards and I've just been picking the feather out of my grill.

I had no idea what way it was going to go so didn't swerve, also I didn't break much as expected it to move as they do 1000s of times before.

I'm feeling really shit about it. Am I a total cunt for not slowing or swerving?

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Makingchocolatecake · 06/12/2024 21:48

Winnersontop · 06/12/2024 21:27

Pheasants are not stupid. When an animal is raised in the country, never sees a car , then comes across them, they panic. Many go into shock. They have no idea of danger. You, as a driver DO. On country lanes, I drive slowly, if passing woods especially, I watch more carefully, I beep my car horn and if I see one in the road, I stop snd beep and they they move on. Cars kill. Take care when driving on country lanes or through wooded areas...and avoid all wildlife.

Harsh... wildlife also goes onto roads where it is not safe to drive slowly or stop suddenly.

Makingchocolatecake · 06/12/2024 21:47

I did this on a dual carriageway. It's just one of those things.

Winnersontop · 06/12/2024 21:28

Sicko

Winnersontop · 06/12/2024 21:27

Pheasants are not stupid. When an animal is raised in the country, never sees a car , then comes across them, they panic. Many go into shock. They have no idea of danger. You, as a driver DO. On country lanes, I drive slowly, if passing woods especially, I watch more carefully, I beep my car horn and if I see one in the road, I stop snd beep and they they move on. Cars kill. Take care when driving on country lanes or through wooded areas...and avoid all wildlife.

ARoomWithoutAView · 15/03/2015 15:20

Did you eat it?

ARoomWithoutAView · 15/03/2015 15:19

It's just sleeping.

SayraT · 15/03/2015 15:17

Took a while to get the photo but here it is.

I've just ran over a pheasant :(
ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 19:57

Haha Grin

I have invented a new word....."Pheaxting"

Definition - Driving along a country lane too fast by reasonable standards whilst trying to say it is below 60 mph so "still legal", completely ignoring what the Highway Code says and sticking two fingers up to the rest of the world with their children on ponies, people on bicycles and other drivers, with no notion that life is real and not about you or your "internet/video game/virtual/got to get to coffee" lifestyle, whilst nonchalantly shooting down a pheasant from the steering wheel whilst trying to text a friend that you are running late and that "its not your fault" - of course it isn't - even though it always is, and completely ignoring the legal notion that there is a Duty Of Care for all that is around you, but what the heck. the insurers will pick it up anyway.

"Pheaxting" - I looove it. Grin

ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 19:35

Car 'N its Ival?

Get it?

ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 19:33

I saw this bird on the front of a Car 'N its Ival....

www.office.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Office-Carnival.jpg

I know a lot about pheasants and cars......uff

ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 19:30

Yay.....A big phat feasant on the grill.....Smile

SayraT · 01/03/2015 19:27

OHs dad has the phone and is away this weekend. He is back tomorrow and I will post it then once he emails it to me Smile

YouAreAngryyyyyyyy · 01/03/2015 19:25

SayraT did you find the photo? Wink

SayraT · 28/02/2015 18:53

Haha ARoom Grin

TweeStuff · 28/02/2015 14:02

Gallic those are some big fat pheasants. Most of the ones I see around here squashed on the road are much smaller.

My DH loves pheasant especially ones that have been hanging a loooooong time (yuk Confused ) . He cooks them on the stovetop on a bed of caramelised onions with loads of brandy - the onions taste delicious but I'm not so keen on the pheasant as it's too gamey.

ARoomWithoutAView · 28/02/2015 13:57

Sayra I thought you liked them grilled?

GerundTheBehemoth · 28/02/2015 12:59

The red junglefowl (the wild bird from which domestic chickens descend) weighs roughly the same as a pheasant (about 1kg). Domestic chickens kept for meat are more like 3kg-3.5kg. They are big and fat (and crap at flying) because we've selectively bred them to be that way.

SayraT · 28/02/2015 12:20

Yeah I know...I don't bother faffing around with them. I just skin them and use the breasts. I think they are just all feather!

GallicIsCharlie · 28/02/2015 11:49

It surprises me that the birds are the size of large hens or medium turkeys, yet make such a tiny meal. It must be pheasants' revenge on being bred to be shot Hmm

SayraT · 28/02/2015 11:43

Thanks Gallic I really want to find this photo now so that I can prove that it happened...because it did!

GallicIsCharlie · 28/02/2015 11:37

(I thought you might be excited by more photos, Room Wink )

GallicIsCharlie · 28/02/2015 11:36

These are pheasants. They're not small, insignificant things that other drivers wouldn't notice plastered over your radiator.

I've just ran over a pheasant :(
I've just ran over a pheasant :(
ARoomWithoutAView · 27/02/2015 23:29

Thanks SayraT, I just wanted to see the pictures. I cannot believe it.
So excited....just cannot believe it....:)

And so bored.

SayraT · 27/02/2015 22:57

ARoom when I find the picture (on a different phone which isn't here) I will post the picture of the pheasant stuck. The other drivers saw it since it was flapping about (I assume) but it was too low for us to see from the car. We thought we'd just missed it.

I am going back home tomorrow (where phone with picture is) so I will post it then if I find phone.

ARoomWithoutAView · 27/02/2015 21:12

Amazing SayraT just love your post..... great stuff...!!
Like one of those Tom Cruise action films, must have been lots of camera play.
At 50-60 miles an hour, other cars doing what maybe 30 coming towards you....combined speed of..what....... 80 mph.
Which gave them time to see said pheasant, relative small and insignificant on your grill, grill on your car. Like this occurs so frequently so they are waiting to flash... and you saw them flash........ in all that time.
You made it up. IMO anyway.