First Roadkill...its a big one! :(

Did a pheasant on the M4 near Membury a few years back with a Sierra. Dumb thing wobbled out at point blank range and you don't swerve at 75 MPH or it would be me and the missus roadkill instead.

Feathers out the back, lot of banging and rattling under the car then the carcase came tumbling out the rear on to the hard shoulder.

Took out the numberplate and viscera spattered copiously underneath.

Despite cleaning, worst thing was the smell of burnt flesh permeating the car for weeks after...
 
BigglesPiP said:
Well fed car! :D

I'd have left it in place for the drive home, for comedy value, so long as the temps were OK.
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Nah , radiator was knocked out of place and was spilling coolant all over.
Its a 6 litre V8 , in 40 degree heat without a cooling system it wouldnt have lasted long...
 
I was seeing what a 2.9i Scorpio could do years back and had it up to 135 (on a private test track.....) when I came down a sweeping right hand to see a rabbit in the middle of the lane I was in.

Didn't even think about swerving (not that I had any time to) just head on. WHACK. Looked in the rear view mirror to see this expanding cloud of fur.... and Vern: yep just like you I had this smell of cooked rabbit for weeks afterwards (well *I* didn't as it was a test car)
 
Davey D said:
Yep.. if you kill the animal, and then take it home, then legally you are a poacher... however the person following in the car behind can pick it up, and take it home to eat :)
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Apparently that is not true, but an urban myth. This quote is taken from a survival web site and was written by a professional deer hunter for a country estate

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The taking of road killed game, provided you did not kill it yourself, is unfortunately an urban myth. No game may be killed on taken in the UK without a valid game licence. All game is the property (live or dead) of the landowner who's land it happens to be on. Often the game rights of adjoining landowers cover the whole of the road. In the case of there being different landowers each side of the road, then each landowners rights extend to the centre of the road. In this stituation, to pick up road kill from the road or verge would mean you are guilty of poaching.

Other roads are the property of local authorities and other executive transport agencies. These roads, although technically in public ownership, do not give you any extra rights to pick up game. Such game is still not your property and you can be prosecuted under the game act, the 1994 deer act, the 1961 (or is '62) theft act (stealing by finding), as well as a possible conviction for poaching.

It is interesting to note that on summary conviction, the vehicle used to pick up such game will be confiscated by the the authorities.
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Pah - call those roadkill ? This is roadkill...roast venison anyone ?

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..more pics available if your stomachs can take it ;)
 
Vandle said:
Beat this one ...

Eyre Highway , West Australia on a section called the 80 mile straight , the longest straight road in the country.
Just over a brow of a hill , 185km/h on my cruise control. I didnt even have time to touch my brake pedal.
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Wooo! Take that holden:D
 
last month i had the fright of my life, when a big Dear ran out of the bushes straight in front of me when i was doing 70 down lount hill(near Ashby de la zouch)
i just missed it, hate to think what that would have done the car
 
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