OT Project Splatter

ISTR a baby killed in London allegedly by a fox only a few years ago. Fewer than are killed by cats and dogs. Not sure about cyclists.

Not just rural sports enthusiasts. Farmers have been known to try to exterminate badgers because of fear of bovine TB. Note, I am aware the theoretical objections to this policy.

I knocked over a teenager a couple of years ago.

I saw them on the way on my drive out to the shop jumping out in front of cars making the driver swerve out of the way before jumping back onto the pavement.

I decided that on my way back from the shop if they tried it on me I would not swerve out the way and carry on in a straight line to scare the s*it out of them.

He went straight over the bonnet.

I do a fairly average annual mileage (though probably less that your van)

and I'm not adverse to ignoring the number on the stick :-)

But town and motorway driving I don't think that I've seen a mammal that I might have hit and the birds always manage to fly away

Occasionally in the country I see animals but I've always managed to slow down and missed them

I do try to avoid driving at night, perhaps that's the difference

tim

Badger baiting is not a rural sport. It is an urban sport.

Farmers have been known to try to

Not from fear of it, from it being a serious risk

Mostly refuted. Badghers spread TB. End of.

not if it's right by a motorway junction it isn't :-)

tim

traffic is freqeunt enough on both that darwin has elminated teh dum crap .

I did saee a dog run over in Norwich once And the odd cat in towns

deer and pheasants are a hazard day and night and pigeons mostly by day.

bunnies and badgers - night

Nice country roads to the motorway junction if I want to use it.

I have no ideas what motorways have to do with my post.

If you're forced to choose between running over a hedgehog, a fox or a badger, *please* choose the badger and do garden lovers everywhere a huge favour.

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The dog went for the neck, it's back was already broken. And rabbits scream when in pain.

He took it home and said he was going to eat it. If he had not I would have done.

Badgers are like Pikeys. If the former 'move' under your shed/garage, then evicting them is as difficult as getting rid of the latter.

I think it's also a behavioral thing. Badgers are pretty feisty so assume that they will win the argument while crossing a road when a vehicle is coming.

I see more less equal numbers of badgers and foxes on the side of the road.

They regularly have problems trying to cross Southern Railways lines with the powered 3rd rail

Many, or even most of the speed limit signs where I live date back to the 1970's when plastic-coated metal poles, with new signs replaced the nice solid cast-iron jobs.

I regularly see them flat on the verge or pavement where the plastic has split and allowed the base to rust away.

No amount of signage can compensate for lack of grey matter.

I can imagine

only a couple of foxes, and one small deer in the same journeys

My brother had his entire broadbean crop scoffed on the allotment.

The teeth marks on the remnants definately weren't from a rabbit.

They just dug a big hole under the 6-foot chin link fencing.

The problem is peole are not taught to drive anyome. Merely pilot a car according to a rulebook and the signage taht idicates which riules are in paly

Take that away and they simply do not know what to do