I've just ran over a pheasant :(

I did that in year 8 and proudly handed in a piece of history homework entitled The Pheasants Revolt. I was still being teased about it in year 12!

HE was called Bodger and the Badger was Badger wasnt it?

How the hell did I get those the wrong way round?!

Have an got their names the wrong way round?

I have an anecdote about badgers.

I once went to a free party (rave) in a mansion and we chose a room to get changed in (women). Whilst we were in there the bloke from Bodger the Badger comes in.

I shit you not, he comes in with a bag, and pulls Bodger out. Im thinking what the fuck?! It gets worse. He only pulls out that fucking potato shooter and starts filling it up with potato.

Anyway, he started getting really annoyed with us because we were a bit 'errr, we are all half naked in here getting changed' and he seemed very harassed (and deeply uninterested by the half naked women) and busy getting Bodger ready.

He then joined the rave with Bodger in hand and potato. Again WTF?

On the way home, as we were pulling out we we telling out then boyfriends and just as we were pulling out the drive way there was a badger on the side of the road, it was dead, huge and bloated on its back poor thing.

Poor, dead Bodger. I think it was an over dose.

No-one can say if 50mph was safe or not. As I said above I was encouraged to drive appropriately fast by my instructor when I was learning at 17 (not long ago, things haven't changed since). For all we know this narrow country lane was poker straight with great visibility, no bumps or potholes and neat hedges not ditches. Animals still dart across those roads suddenly!!

In the Tales Of Farthing Wood, I am sure there is a pheasant who is quite eloquent. In one of the episodes I thought he led the other animals to safety. I don't think they are that stupid then.

They are the dumbest birds. Car in front of me hit one on the M1. It was like hitting a football of feathers, it just went POOF! Feathers everywhere.

DH says that badger stew was surprisingly tasty on the one occasion it was served to him.

they really are stupid birds

I once got 2 male ones on a country lane - they were having a spat and kept fighting and though I slowed it wasnt the sort of place where its possible to swerve and avoid them
2x pheasants for dinner - shame that they are dead, not deliberate but theres no reason to waste them (may have been technical poaching )
2 different sets of tailfeathers donated to a friend for fishing flies too

and dont pluck them - skin them, and use some fatty bacon to stop the meat drying out when roasting

Shocked at fifty mph on a narrow country lane.

The poor pheasant was NOT the stupid creature

Just to clarify - I did not intend to kill the Badger!!!

I killed a badger a few months ago. Now THAT made a thud.
It was awful, I was in hysterics for hours afterwards.
It was only 2 minutes from home and I made my OH come back with me to check it was dead (it was, thank god).

I killed a badger a few months ago. Now THAT made a thud.
It was awful, I was in hysterics for hours afterwards.
It was only 2 minutes from home and I made my OH come back with me to check it was dead (it was, thank god).

Mmmm dinner!

Most country lanes are national. It's impossible for anyone to tell what speed is ok without seeing the actual stretch of road. Just because it's national doesnt mean that driving up to 60 is safe.

Tobyjugg it's only poaching if you are on someone else's land

Is it totally flat or çould you take it home in time for Sunday lunch?

Ive always wanted to try pheasan.

Does the poster who thinks 50mph is too fast drive at all? Most country lanes are national

It was a mix up of words. No offence intended

I thought it wasn't politically correct to call country folk peasants anymore?

Well I have never seen so much pheasant bashing. Poor daft birds.

I hit one on a dual carriageway once. I spotted it in the distance crossing the other side making it to the central reservation. It just kept walking into my path. My mum was in the car and we both screamed as I hit it. Phoned dh and told him I'd hit a peasant, he was really confused.

Manina, your story gave me an evil cackle I didn't realise the season had recently finished - nobody's given me any this year! Possibly because I refuse to prepare them myself, mind you. It's one thing handing over a weekend's roadkill or excess trophies, but I suppose I am a bit of an arse to ask that the giver does the dirty work.

YANBU. I know they're all over the place and stupid, but I totally get why you were upset. It's a life, pea brained or not. I've managed to avoid all our pheasants (lived on a farm til recently) but I know when I hit a really small bird (sparrow sized) and sent it flying (no pun intended!), I felt bad for YEARS!

Still do

Would only be worried that you didn't go back, pick it up and sling it in the pot when you got home

That's poaching. Picking up a bird someone else has run down is OK. Picking up one that you hit is just the same (legally speaking) as if you shot the thing without permission.

Oh that's traumatic OP! I'd be shaken up too but don't worry about it.

My driving instructor told me off many a time for going too slowly on national speed limit country lanes when I was learning... "The examiner wants to see that you know the speed limit!"