I'm Not A Pheasant Plucker...

[bazza]

Hooning down some B road between the A34 from Stafford and Penkridge two up with Jazza, we clear a corner at about 50 and see two pheasants plodding across the road.

Not particularly keen on having to spend an hour or more of my Sat night cleaning baked bird-guts out of the engine cooling fins, I took evasive action - stand up the bike and close the throttle.

Bugger me if one of the little fuckers didn't fly up, roll up its feathers and head towards me with the "Are you looking at my bird?" look in its beady littly eye.

Ten out of ten for bravery, nil out of ten for target identification.

The stroppy little sod flew smack onto the L/H wing mirror arm, bending it back an inch or so before fluttering into the hedge.

I'm not proud to admit I ducked as it flew up leaving Jazza to take one for the good guys, but I am happy that neither of us got a visor full of pissed-off pheasant.

Which was nice.
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[synaptyx]

Suicidal psychopaths those things. Is the mirror broken, or did it just go back on the spring?

[Minky_monkey]

Sounds like a bad weekend for wildlife. I attended an road traffic accident last night, a woman in a fiat punto collided with a deer.

The roads got a national speed limit and needless to say, the car's a write off as was the deer. She was really shaken up as she'd hit it virtually right in front of her.

[Dom]

They really should be shooting more of those things imo, I've had a good few near misses.

Glad to hear the Pheasant was the only casualty.

[Azmodeus]

[stryker]

The Pheasant smelt him coming

[Azmodeus]

[B.I.K.E]

unlucky mate so what did happen to the mirror

[bazza]

The mirror survived undamaged - the bird hit the metal arm between the bars and mirror. It knocked the whole thing back a couple of inches though...
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[stryker]

Serious question, had you killed the lil fella, would it have been illegal to take your roadkill home?

[bazza]

You've been working in Redditch too long, pal. I know it's customary round there, but eating roadkill is generally frowned upon in more civilised areas...
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[Azmodeus]

Who said anything about eating it?

[Hex]

Illegal for you to take it home but the next person along can I believe.

Or something daft like that.
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[Robin]

If you go down the road a bit, turn around and then pick it up you are the next person to come along.

Had a few rabbits like that, and a couple of pheasant. A lot easier now cos I have a lurcher.

I hit a grey squirrel in the car this morning, but then again I just hate those little grey b4rst4rds.


Glad nobody was hurt apart from the wildlife though.

[bazza]

[Azmodeus]

I was thinking more along the lines of sexual gratification...

[bazza]

Can I be the first to say...

Ewww.

Seriously.


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[stryker]

You pay good money for pheasant, so I just wondered, if it had been killed outright by the blow why not take it home.

Oh well.

[Azmodeus]

Hey, if having sex with dead Pheasants is wrong, I dont want to be right!

[Dom]

[Azmodeus]

Well, maybe I didnt explain is properly.

They breed the Pheasants, but they do not do selective breeding (all femals for instance).
That means that they have males and females flying around.
It only takes 2 of them to lay eggs, and the population is increased.

[Dom]

Ah right. What a weird conversation.

[mchaggis]

Pheasant and rabbit with lead shot in isn't so nice, especially as they're stressed out when they're killed. Smack one with the car, no lead shot and a nice one for the pot. I remember butchering a bambi one of my dad's mates hit with his car. Tasty bugger too.

[Kickstart]