After being told by my instructor when I was a learner driver that I should NEVER ever slow down for pigeons in the road because they will ALWAYS fly away in time, I had my opportunity to put this to the test....

Unfortunately the pigeon didnt move and now im a killer :(

Originally posted by spyro2000
After being told by my instructor when I was a learner driver that I should NEVER ever slow down for pigeons in the road because they will ALWAYS fly away in time, I had my opportunity to put this to the test....

Unfortunately the pigeon didnt move and now im a killer :(


Awww, that's a shame, I hate pidgeons and they scare the hell out of me, but, I wouldn't want to run one over!

Errrrrr, now you've got to clean the car!! :gag:

What would you prefer - kill a pigeon, or either have someone rear end you because you suddenly and unexpectedly slowed down (remember the driver behind probably can't see such a small thing on the road in front of your car) or swerve and hit a wall.

Ask yourself the questions:

Is it going to kill/damage me?
Am I going to kill/damage the person behind?
How much damage will it do to my car?


If its either you or the pigeon, then the pigeon gets it every time.

As for other animals remember this:

Under the various road traffic acts, when it is duty to inform the owner of the animal struck or inform the Police if the owner can not be found, there are relatively few animals. They are:

Horse
Cow
Sheep
Pig
Mule
Dog
Ass

So according to the rules you can run as many cats or elephants or crocs or snakes or bunny rabbits over as you like and not have to tell the Police.

I would say that it is relatively difficult to run over a pidgeon, If you do get one it is probably a sick or dying one anyhow.

No great loss.

Now if it was a pheasant, you could have cooked it also :D

Only trouble is with that, I don't think it is legal to collect it after hitting one :(

i think you cant but anyone behind you could pick up the pheasant.

i can think of more pheasant things to eat ha de ha ha.

i used to try to get pigeons and the likes, road death kills! got 2 so far as it aint easy!

Originally posted by spyro2000

Unfortunately the pigeon didnt move and now im a killer :( [/B]

Don't think of yourself as a killer - they usually do move so I reckon it committed suicide and waited for your car to splat him or her. :thumbsup:

Pigeons are just rats with wings and more diseases, the more you run over the better it will be for all of us, they are vermin.

Originally posted by Saxon
What would you prefer - kill a pigeon, or either have someone rear end you because you suddenly and unexpectedly slowed down (remember the driver behind probably can't see such a small thing on the road in front of your car)


In that case, wouldn't the driver behind have been driving too close? I was always taught to allow enough distance to be able to stop safely if the car infront had to do an emergancy stop....

I'm suprised it didn't move, though. Maybe it was injured already, in which case you might have done it a favour.

Once saw a woman in town, step out of her car and start "shooo ing" (not to be confused with SHOE-ING )the pigeons out of the way. The pigeons were just staring at this crazy woman as though she was indeed crazy.

Originally posted by Saxon
What would you prefer - kill a pigeon, or either have someone rear end you because you suddenly and unexpectedly slowed down (remember the driver behind probably can't see such a small thing on the road in front of your car) or swerve and hit a wall.

Ask yourself the questions:

Is it going to kill/damage me?
Am I going to kill/damage the person behind?
How much damage will it do to my car?


If its either you or the pigeon, then the pigeon gets it every time.

As for other animals remember this:

Under the various road traffic acts, when it is duty to inform the owner of the animal struck or inform the Police if the owner can not be found, there are relatively few animals. They are:

Horse
Cow
Sheep
Pig
Mule
Dog
Ass

So according to the rules you can run as many cats or elephants or crocs or snakes or bunny rabbits over as you like and not have to tell the Police.

Hey, that's right! ... and what if there was no danger to the driver, and no-one was driving too close behind, and if it was perfectly safe to slow down.

What the hell! ... lets not bother slowing down ... lets just see how many of our feathered friends brains' we can splat all over the public highway.

After all, the rules don't say no to do they?

Surely missing from the list of animals you need to tell the police about is Human!

Its not the bus drivers job I like, its the people you run into.

When I was living in the US, a common conversation topic was how many deer one had run into when driving on country roads - hence the presence of bars on many US vehicles.

Perhaps we ought to have pigeon bars on the front of our cars.

I told my other half that I had ran over a Pigeon in the car.
She asked "Was it a Wood Pigeon?"



I Replied "No, It was a real one" :hihi:

I am with Nick2 re pigeons. There are simply too many of the pestering, cooing brutes around. Having been defacated upon by the winged fiends on several occasions I would support a mass culling of the feral variety. There seems to be a strategy in their aerial bombardment of passers-by, and I cannot be the only person to have detected a glinting, 'knowing' look in the eyes of the offenders. They do it for pleasure. It is therefore our solemn duty to run down as many of this passerine fifth column as possible.

Originally posted by LordChaverly

Perhaps we ought to have pigeon bars on the front of our cars.

What would they serve?

Birdingtons Bitter?




I'll get my coat, then!

I only hope the pigeon killed on this occasion was the same one which whacked me over the head on the Moor last week whilst doing a fly past!
It wouldn't have been so bad if I could have seen it coming but to be suprised from behind this way certainly raises the heart rate a few beats!! :D

If they did cgksheff you know if they sat at the bar they would be 'Stool Pigeons!!!' :heyhey:

Originally posted by dawny1
If they did you know if they sat at the bar they would be 'Stool Pigeons!!!' :heyhey:

"Believe me, when they drop a nasty little present on your shoulder, they're already "stool" pigeons... :hihi:

Originally posted by dawny1
If they did cgksheff you know if they sat at the bar they would be 'Stool Pigeons!!!' :heyhey:

The bar staff wouldn't need to check their ages, as they never take their kids with them anywhere.

They would also only be able to go into pubs where they speak Pigeon English!! :hihi:

Coo, this is degenerating fast :heyhey:
But it's funny. Keep egging us on; enjoying the yolks :D

Nothing libelous though as you'll be up infront of the beak!

Originally posted by Andy
In that case, wouldn't the driver behind have been driving too close? I was always taught to allow enough distance to be able to stop safely if the car infront had to do an emergancy stop....


He/she certainly would be too close, but then again, not every one drives as they should!!

Originally posted by Jamie
Hey, that's right! ... and what if there was no danger to the driver, and no-one was driving too close behind, and if it was perfectly safe to slow down.

What the hell! ... lets not bother slowing down ... lets just see how many of our feathered friends brains' we can splat all over the public highway.

After all, the rules don't say no to do they?


Then slow down. Where in my post does it say you shouldn't slow down IF its perfectly safe to do so?

Originally posted by Saxon
If its either you or the pigeon, then the pigeon gets it every time.

but if you can slow down safely, then do so.

i had to stop for one just yesterday :), was safe to do so i stuck on the brakes :)

maybe it was the same one that came to you with a deathwish?

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Coo, this is degenerating fast :heyhey:
But it's funny. Keep egging us on; enjoying the yolks :D

Nothing libelous though as you'll be up infront of the beak!

Nice one, you put me in a right FLAP there. lets hope the mods dont TAKE OFF this thread.

Originally posted by venger
No great loss.

Now if it was a pheasant, you could have cooked it also :D

Only trouble is with that, I don't think it is legal to collect it after hitting one :(

its illegal for you to pick it up, but the guy behind you can.

Joel

Originally posted by Saxon
Then slow down. Where in my post does it say you shouldn't slow down IF its perfectly safe to do so?

The OP did state that his driving instructor told him to NEVER slow down to avoid pigeons, and of course, NEVER would include cases where it was perfectly safe to do so.

Originally posted by Jamie
The OP did state that his driving instructor told him to NEVER slow down to avoid pigeons, and of course, NEVER would include cases where it was perfectly safe to do so.

Thats right, because when I used to learn, If there was pigeons on the road, I would always slow down, and he told me that im not suppose to slow down for them under ANY circumstances.

When the short one lived in Lincoln and I used to live down south i used to have to set off at foolish o'clock in the morning to get to work to start my shift after a weekend at hers.

I used to be one of the only cars on the road at that time of day and regularly drove towards hordes of pigeons gorging themselves upon the discarded kebabs and general detritus on West parade. They always made it out of the way even when they were weighed down with dirty donor meat and greasy pitta.

As a cyclist I suddenly feel a kindred with pigeons!

Zamo,
Let us hope that you refrain from defacating upon people the way your 'kindred' feathered friends do!

Some cyclists (I exclude you from this dear Zamo) seem to have about the same intelligence levels as pigeons

Originally posted by LordChaverly
Some cyclists (I exclude you from this dear Zamo) seem to have about the same intelligence levels as pigeons

If only some motorists (and I exclude you dear Chaverly!) were that smart! :D

Originally posted by Zamo
If only some motorists (and I exclude you dear Chaverly!) were that smart! :D

Well, in accordance with basic Darwinian principles, the daft cyclists are likely to get culled on a regular basis. The same principles do not seem to apply equally to the daft motorists.

my dad had a pheasant hit his van....££££££ 's of damage. bits of birds in the grills, it was gross.

I always slow down for pidgeons... they have a kind of time delay eye sight and sort of see things in frames (not picture frames..) rather than 'real time' like us.. BTW I have no idea how I know this.

Originally posted by spyro2000
After being told by my instructor when I was a learner driver that I should NEVER ever slow down for pigeons in the road because they will ALWAYS fly away in time, I had my opportunity to put this to the test....

Unfortunately the pigeon didnt move and now im a killer :(

Where did this deed take place? It wasn't just outside the Deavonshire Chippy was it?

If so I might have just seen your victim lying on the road.

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
my dad had a pheasant hit his van....££££££ 's of damage. bits of birds in the grills, it was gross.

Grilled Pheasant.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm!:D

Originally posted by Deavon
Where did this deed take place? It wasn't just outside the Deavonshire Chippy was it?

If so I might have just seen your victim lying on the road.

No, it was on the Wicker that I done the dirty deed. Im still very :(

Originally posted by spyro2000
No, it was on the Wicker that I done the dirty deed. Im still very :(

Well then, perhaps the stricken bird that I saw had just tried the donner meat and chips from the Deavonshire Chippy:gag:

For anyone who is old enough to know what I am talking about this could be very funny.

Mouldy Old Dough ! ! ! ! !

:clap:

Originally posted by muddycoffee
For anyone who is old enough to know what I am talking about this could be very funny.

Mouldy Old Dough ! ! ! ! !

:clap:

Hadn't a clue what you meant... but then I found this. (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsl/lieutenant.html)

I remember the song...my parents had it....:hihi:

Originally posted by Shiesh
I remember the song...my parents had it....
Cheeky! I'm not that old Sheish, just musically mature.:hihi:

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Cheeky! I'm not that old Sheish, just musically mature.:hihi:

:hihi: no I know you are not...bless not a grey hair on your head....I noticed that when you came to fix my lamp because my Hubby uses just for men....:P

Originally posted by muddycoffee
For anyone who is old enough to know what I am talking about this could be very funny.

Mouldy Old Dough ! ! ! ! !

:clap:

If you look on one of the old TOTP performances you can see John Peel miming very unconvincingly along on an instrument - And before anyone asks I'm not that old either! :)

Originally posted by muddycoffee
For anyone who is old enough to know what I am talking about this could be very funny.

Mouldy Old Dough ! ! ! ! !

:clap:

Or Jackson's version: Mouldy old Pe-Doe

Originally posted by cgksheff
What would they serve?

Birdingtons Bitter?




I'll get my coat, then!

No, it would be Coors

Incidentally, the famous? American poet Gertrude Stein (lover of Alice B. Toklas) wrote a notoriously bad poem about pigeons. Apparently, she wanted to do for poetry what the Cubists had done for art. Personally, I think in comparison the great McGonegall's works are of Shakespearean quality compared to Stein's, but perhaps that's just me being unkind and obtuse. Here it is:

Pigeons on the grass alas.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons
large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass alas pigeons on the
grass.
If they were not pigeons what were they.
If they were not pigeons on the grass alas what were they. He had
heard of a third and he asked about it it was a magpie in the sky.
If a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry if the pigeon on the
grass alas can alas and to pass the pigeon on the grass alas and the
magpie in the sky on the sky and to try and to try alas on the
grass alas the pigeon on the grass the pigeon on the grass and alas.
They might be very well they might be very well very well they might
be.
Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily
Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily.

Pigeons is dirty creatures!

Oh yes they are!

It is not good to crush them with your car tho cos they go CRUNCH and make BIG mess.

My good friend and I were sat in a car in stalled traffic and spied a pigeon trip-trapping in the road. A car did not stop! The pigeon went under the car! Oh no!

But then, the pigean reappeared! It had miraculously survived! Hooray! :)

And then another car CRUNCHED it. Bye bye dirty pigeon... :sad: