The anti-speeders get it in every time ...

[streaky]

[rant_on]

A letter in this weeks Farnham Herald suggests the the League Against Cruel Sports devotes its time to the wider issues of "animal cruelty" (my emphasis).

Why am I highlighting this?

Because the letter goes on to say, "The killing and maining of animals by drivers exceeding the speed limits on country roads." (my emphasis).

Well, Mr Tony Page of Lodge Hill Road, Farnham (name and address printed in newspaper), how do you know the drivers were exceeding the speed limit?

The answer is ... you don't! So stop foisting your prejudices on the world at large (well, the Farnham area at least) and stick to whatever your main point is in future!

[rant_off]

Streaky

[gh0st]

Had a similar one down here a while ago pointing out that anyone exceeding the speed limit is going to kill and maim a small child. (didnt specify what type of roads or where)

Rather strange then when I was going down the A380 this morning from torquay at 75MPH (in a 70) I did not see one single child bounce of my bonnet neither a trail of destroyed kids behind my car.

Either I am the best driver in the world to avoid these hazerdous hidden children or the guy is lieing. I like to think the former

[madant69]

It's all part of yer roadcraft innit? I know 3 places where I need to be extra careful on my way home from work (2 deers runs and a badger run).

Have you seen the mess those badgers make of a car? I went to an RTA once where a BMW had hit a badger and the impact was so hard it had snapped his flywheel in half!! Car was totalled!

They're tough critters, them there badgers, and mean too!

[alans]

Badgers have flywheels?

[madant69]

alans said:

Badgers have flywheels?

This one did...was a Robo-Badger!

[chief-0369]

I hit a badger at about 40, it dented the bumper slightly and went under the car. i could feel it hitting the footwell

little bugger limped off into a field, leaving me with a bloodstained, dented bumper and me feeling bad

[spaximus]

You should try hitting a deer on the M4 at around 70mph. The peugeot 405 was still drivable just but the nearside and the front all had to be replaced. For the animal lovers, it died a well deserved death, and probably fed many starving little children so did not die in vain.

[BruceV8]

spaximus said:

You should try hitting a deer on the M4 at around 70mph.

I prefer hitting them with a rifle bullet. mmmmmmmm...venison...mmmmmmmm

[Dr Jekyll]

If hitting children and animals while travelling faster than the limit is so dangerous, we should make it impossible to exceed the limit.

How about a 150 MPH limit in town and an NSL of 250 MPH?

[UK952]

I read somewhere many species of animals and birds (some that were almost extinct) are thriving in the relatively undisturbed areas either sides of the road and on centre reservations - if it was fields instead of roads many wouldn't exist anyway.
Tony

[streaky]

madant69 said:

... I went to an RTA once where a BMW had hit a badger and the impact was so hard it had snapped his flywheel in half!! Car was totalled! They're tough critters, them there badgers, and mean too!

So would you be if you'd been hit by a BMW. Old Brock prefers something with class

[hertsbiker]

Dr Jekyll said:

If hitting children and animals while travelling faster than the limit is so dangerous, we should make it impossible to exceed the limit. How about a 150 MPH limit in town and an NSL of 250 MPH?

I like this idea!

[superlightr]

nah, got to be at least 200 in town. :wink:

[toad_oftoadhall]

Dr Jekyll said:

If hitting children and animals while travelling faster than the limit is so dangerous, we should make it impossible to exceed the limit. How about a 150 MPH limit in town and an NSL of 250 MPH?

Like it!

I've always thought we could permanantly end child abuse by lowering the age of consent to 4!!! ;-)

Oh dear - that's counjoured up thoughts of Mungo in his best suit, hair jelled down turning up with a big bunch or roses at a nursery. ;-)

[stackmonkey]

Friend of mine hit a deer the other week while doing 40 in a 60. One dead deer, one totalled car (Yaris), one friend in hospital getting checked for glass cuts in his eyes after the legs came through his 'screen.

[monster1]

Lucky he was only doing 40mph. Any faster he could have been killed.

[whatever]

Oh yes, deer hits are not fun, and the aforementioned A380 is a prime candidate for them, on the wooded section nearer to Exeter.

[deltaf]

monster1 said:

Lucky he was only doing 40mph. Any faster he could have been killed.

Well im surprised the wind velocity didnt do for him at that speed.
40mph! outrageous speeds to be travelling.....not even on the M6 would such speeds be attainable........

[wolosp]

I was driving through the White Mountains in the USA a few years ago, and they have Moose warning signs along country roads! Apparently many people are killed each year after rounding a corner only to be confronted by something the size of a horse on stilts! If you're unfortunate enough to hit one of these things, the colision breaks its legs, and the whole thing comes through your windscreen

[puggit]

In South Africa you have to watch out for baboons on the road

There are many missing limbs etc - will someone think of the baboons!!!!