Why are farmers allowed to let phesants live in the road?!

[RichwiththeS2000]

On average, I seem to wipe out 1.5 pheasants every year, resulting in damage to my front bumper/splitters/whatever else they rebound into! Just this morning one ran out and nearly caused a massive pile up.

Why are farmers allowed to have these liabilities running riot all over the highways!? It's an epidemic.

The solution is so obvious as well. Keep the birds inside cages. When it comes to game season, have the hunters approach said cage and shoot the pheasants point blank in the face.

This has 3 key benefits:

1. Farmer has less 'spillage' from birds dying on the roads constantly.
2. Hunters achieve a 99% or higher hit rate = increased satisfaction and less time needed to hunt
3. Less accidents on the roads, fewer damaged cars and potentially lives saved!


If this gets suitable backing I shall write to The Queen and ask her to immediately make this law.


Thanks for reading,
Rich

[SuperPav]

Because farmers don't own the pheasants.

[bobtail4x4]

Try looking where you are going?

and slow down when something is in the road.

[anonymous-user]

Pheasants or parrots?

[GAjon]

Spot on, the HRM and I don't like peasants on the road.

[Never you mind]

It's not the farmers fault but the fault of lackadaisical game keepers. Start a petition. I'll sign it. Bloody things are a menace where I live. They zoom out across the road, get 3/4 of the way there and then charge back when a car is approaching. They need educating in proper road safety.

They are rather tasty though. Roasted in butter with a bit of thyme and rosemary, served with a nice black currant jelly, game Jus and game chips. Yum!

[Conscript]

SuperPav said:

Because farmers don't own the pheasants.

This. Farmers aren't automatically responsible for animals wandering over their land.

[LordGrover]

Pah. Pheasants aren't the issue hereabouts. It's blessed muntjacs - they have less road sense than your average cyclist.

[The Wookie]

You seem to hit a lot of them OP, are you a pheasant plucker?

[Drumroll]

Whilst your at it lets look at Deer, Foxes, Badgers etc.


I do sometimes wonder about how we have got to this, that someone would even start a thread on "containing" wild animals.

[CrutyRammers]

I do hope this is a troll post. Really.
Why do they let people drive who keep crashing into things?

[anonymous-user]

LordGrover said:

Pah. Pheasants aren't the issue hereabouts. It's blessed muntjacs - they have less road sense than your average cyclist.

Uh-oh. Now you've done it. Cue the regulars chipping in with how the birds were here first, how Pheasants in lycra save the planet or some such, and you in your car should be driving at walking pace because cycle.

[Monkeylegend]

Yeah, and they don't even pay bloody road tax.

What's that you say, they were about before the motorised vehicle?

And rabbits, who let them out, they should pay up as well.

Farmers used to provide tied accommodation for the pheasants. Jobs for life.

Edited by Monkeylegend on Monday 13th April 10:37

[Aids0G]

I got a pheasant stuck in the Snorkel of my Defender while doing 60, it was flying at the time so I assume a rogue bird and therefore no Pesky Farmer to blame!

Seriously though just make sure you hit them with a wheel and it limits damage + farmers cant control flying animals (unless giant nets??)

Ag

[Monkeylegend]

What we need is more pheasant ways.

[Johnnytheboy]

bobtail4x4 said:

Try looking where you are going?

and slow down when something is in the road.

Pheasants in the road aren't the problem. It's pheasants that decide to run in the road just as you drive by.

[parabolica]

The Wookie said:

You seem to hit a lot of them OP, are you a pheasant plucker?

No, he's a pheasant plucker's son.

[Monkeylegend]

And he's only plucking pheasants

[DuckDuck]

There's a valid point here. I have the same situation with pheasants but much more problematic are the deer numbers. Where I live deer are a problem and there are many stories about cars badly damaged and accidents caused by deer suddenly appearing. What I see is the movement of these animals being facilitated by removing fences around cover so that the deer can move about more freely.

I'm with the OP, as motorists we should be demanding that famers and landowners be accountable for the animals crossing the road, from or to their land and causing accidents. It would certainly incentives them to reduce their numbers which are in lot of cases kept artificially high.

[Riley Blue]

This .5 of a pheasant - did someone else already wipe out the other half? You're doing it a favour, putting it out of its misery.