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to be shocked someone hung dead pheasant on my front gate

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annoyednow · 13/10/2013 21:14

Opened my front gate around 10minutes ago to let cat in and there was something hanging on the front gate. I am in pj's, so husband went out and there was a dead pheasant hanging from string from our front gate. We live in London.

I don't know if it was some prank by kids or something sinister.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

OP posts:
HavantGuard · 13/10/2013 23:16

Grin at voodoo pheasant. I think that pheasant would be a bit tweedy for voodoo. Unless you suspect they were sacrificed by someone dancing around a burning stack of past issues of Country Life...

wannabedomesticgoddess · 13/10/2013 23:18

Someone once threw an uncooked pork chop into my back yard.

jellyfl00d · 13/10/2013 23:18

Weird, if it was a present, surely they would 'present' you with the pheasant, rather than hanging it from a gate, not normal, esp in London.
I think it's more likely something dark like witchcraft, getting rid of it from the property is the best planBlush

Fakebook · 13/10/2013 23:19

You did the right thing OP. seriously I don't believe people would eat a dead thing hanging from their garden gate without knowing where it came from. It could be poisoned with something. Sounds really weird to me. Unless its something like a Herman cake, but I doubt it.

HavantGuard · 13/10/2013 23:20

Class Wannabe Grin

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 13/10/2013 23:21

Only sick sick people shoot birds.

As far as I know game birds are free range and organic. About twenty million are shot each year and ninety five percent, or thereabouts, go straight into the food chain.

Chickens, on the other hand, are bred to a number something like six hundred million, in captivity, and a hige proportion of that goes straight into pet food.

I think the pheasants probably have a better life.

Sorry for the hijack but I hate random ignorance.

The pheasant was obviously a misplaced gift. Several people who clearly know better than you have come on here to explain it. Please get a bloody grip.

HavantGuard · 13/10/2013 23:21

I'm loving the idea of a pheasant Herman cake.

IHaveA · 13/10/2013 23:23

I think you are worrying about nothing. There will be a reason it's there, someone will have dropped it or won it in a raffle or whatever but the one thing it won't be is ... a .... sign ... or ... voodoo ...

Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock

HavantGuard · 13/10/2013 23:23

I've heard people talk like that until they see a commercial shoot. It's vile.

tethersend · 13/10/2013 23:25

"You missed your waitrose delivery"

HavantGuard · 13/10/2013 23:28

If it was Waitrose you need to go back outside and search for the game chips.

Foxred10 · 13/10/2013 23:29

Here here, Ilovemydog Grin

LittleBearPad · 13/10/2013 23:32

Why on earth would it be a voodoo symbol. Have you been dabbling in voodoo or pissed off people who do?

It's a present. It may be misplaced but it was a present for someone.

How did the call to 101 go though?

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 13/10/2013 23:36

Thanks Foxred10 Grin

It really gets my goat! I know there's a lot of Hooray Henry's that give shooting a bad name but game meat is delicious and good for you and it is free range and organic. Those bloody birds live the life of Riley. Safe from predators, medicated, all the corn they can eat, and yet people happily tuck into all manner of chicken products without a thought for the millions of broiler housed birds that live like prisoners.

Anyway, sorry op, I'll be quiet now. Don't eat it of you don't know where it came from but please don't read anything sinister into what is a very old traditional habit.

BlueSkySunnyDay · 13/10/2013 23:41

I can understand you not eating it as you didn't know where it came from.

H was given a couple by a friend who goes shooting, we roasted them and the meat was very nice but tbh theres not a lot to them - I think if we had them again I would try slow cooking see if that's more successful.

The pigeons he gave us were disgusting I didn't like them at all.

BlueSkySunnyDay · 13/10/2013 23:43

Damn Pheasants are so bloody stupid its almost an effort not to run one over every time I get in the car round here.

cumfy · 13/10/2013 23:50

Well the shooting season just started plus string = gift.

I think you'll find out fairly soon who it was.

Or someone got the wrong gate.

ladymariner · 14/10/2013 00:01

This is the funniest thread I've read for ages......rofl at wannabes pork chop Grin

Mogz · 14/10/2013 00:14

Yes Jelly witches in London usually go to the expenses of procuring a tasty game bird as a vessel for their hexes and them leave them strung neatly in bloody obvious places.
If some idiot in to 'dark magic' wanted to fuck with you they'd find a much messier way of doing so.

olgaga · 14/10/2013 00:16

I was rather alarmed to find most of a Doner Kebab, and a plastic fork, on my front path.

I never thought of voodoo, but I'm pleased we moved.

sashh · 14/10/2013 06:24

Wouldn't it have pins in if it was voodoo? I am of the gift opinion too.

I doubt it, pins/metal are used in Caribbean magic but I think a voodoo blood sacrifice wouldn't involve pins.

Although I'm far from an expert in this particular field.

GillyBillyWilly · 14/10/2013 06:34

OP I expect its a misplaced gift......

OR some kids thought it would be funny to buy a dead pheasant from somewhere (borough market sell them for example) and then got bored of carrying it around and decided it would be funny to hang it on someone's gate.....

OR it's a gang! Grin

GillyBillyWilly · 14/10/2013 06:38

Also OP where in London do you live

frogwatcher42 · 14/10/2013 06:55

Shooting season has just started.

Lots of people from London going to shoots.

Pheasant considered a nice gift if you are a shooter.

Reckon somebody hung it on wrong gate. Nobody else would hang it from string - only shoots tend to do that!

Gut, pluck, Eat and enjoy.

Hemlet · 14/10/2013 07:13

Must say I wouldn't eat something that was left on my gate. Who knows what's been done to it or where it's been. So those saying 'just eat it', would you eat anything that's food hanging from your garden gate?