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AIBU?

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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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

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.

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.....

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

YouAreAngryyyyyyyy · 01/03/2015 19:25

SayraT did you find the photo?

SayraT · 28/02/2015 18:53

Haha ARoom

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 ) . 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

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 )

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.

SayraT · 27/02/2015 20:58

We had one stuck in the front grill of the car a few weeks back. Some drivers flashed at us (we hadn't realised it was stuck) so we pulled over, wrung its neck and had it for dinner later that week.

We were on a A road and I don't know what speed we were travelling at, probably 50-60 mph.

As an aside, this is a narrow (have to pull into passing places or off the road if another car comes along) country road I sometimes drive on. On certain stretches I will do 50-60 mph as visibility and the condition of the road is very good. On some country roads it is safe to drive faster, on some it is not.

I've just ran over a pheasant :(

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littlebillie · 27/02/2015 20:50

I narrowly avoided one today you were probably behind me it was dithering

Taz1212 · 27/02/2015 20:48

I would drive 50mph on that road.

Poor stupid pheasant but I can't talk because we went through a period where I swear our car was a creature magnet. The worst was a deer that was standing on a hill next to the motorway. The stupid thing decided to dash into the 70mph traffic, hit the car in front of us and then bounced towards (dead, I assume) us like a football, onto the bonnet and windscreen before rolling off. I was pregnant at the time and screamed, "brace!" at DH as I watched this deer bouncing along the motorway towards us.

We spent weeks picking bits of deer out of that car.

QTPie · 27/02/2015 19:59

When I was a child, my parents lived in a village (so driving up and down narrow country lanes all of the time). They hit LOADS of pheasants and even a couple of deer :(. (nond of it intentionally). Sadly it is a common occurrence in the countryside...

I was driving through the countryside today and saw the remains of a do that only made it half way across the road. RIP

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