Evil drivers

RE: Evil drivers

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:07:30 GMT

I can't say about the 1st 3 occasions, but the last driver could have stopped safely, and, since this was a built up area with a 30 mph speed limit, then the 1st 3 should have been able to do so as well, unless they were criminals.

Wynne

RE: Evil drivers

Robin Grimmer — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:46:01 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

[quote user="Robin Grimmer"] I knew a bloke once (kebab shop owner)[/quote]Is that significant?

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Not particularly, just that he wasn't a holidaymaker as Michael suggested.

RE: Evil drivers

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:28:37 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

I wouldn't leave a deer, fox or badger that was immobile and obviously alive. Equally I'm not devoting a lot of my time to wild goose chases - if the animal is not on scene when the owners ring "can you see the animal with your own eyes" then I don't go.

What is more dangerous are the IDIOT holidaymakers (generally) who brake dangerously to avoid a pheasant or rabbit in the road and nearly cause a car accident. Highway code clearly says to hit them. Some years I have more pheasants killed with the car than the 12 bore.....

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I do wonder sometimes about some drivers decision making when behind the wheel, I was once been called to the surgery to see a cat that had been hit by a car, and discovered that the person driving the car had tried to miss the cat, but had turned into the path of oncoming traffic and had a head on collision with another car, several ambulances were needed to take the injured to hospital, and the cat was euthanased with a broken pelvis and 2 broken femurs.

RE: Evil drivers

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:41:43 GMT

[quote user="Robin Grimmer"] I knew a bloke once (kebab shop owner)[/quote]Is that significant?

RE: Evil drivers

Robin Grimmer — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:58:22 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"] Micheal I sincerely hope you made sure those poor animals were dead before you drove on - especially as myxi rabbits can sometimes be caught.[/quote]

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Yep, agree with you there. I knew a bloke once (kebab shop owner) who swerved to avoid a ****ing pheasant in the road and rolled his car over! Idiot! Thank god no-one else was hurt.

RE: Evil drivers

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:10:47 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"] Micheal I sincerely hope you made sure those poor animals were dead before you drove on - especially as myxi rabbits can sometimes be caught.[/quote]

In truth - no I don't. I do more than a lot, but I've been made to look a fool many times chasing a myxi rabbit that hops away at the last moment when I try to grab it to kill it.

RE: Evil drivers

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:09:41 GMT

Micheal I sincerely hope you made sure those poor animals were dead before you drove on - especially as myxi rabbits can sometimes be caught.

Grumpyoldman. This was on a road in town, which is bordered by a park on 1 side, and is used as a rat run by drivers who want to avoid 4 sets of traffic lights on the main road. They are by nature impatient, and the road lacks either speed cameras or sleeping policemen.

Martin Luckily for this fox, I work with the RSPCA The students weren't qualified professionals either, but they used their brains, did the obvious, and the problem was sorted. Even if the fox had been merely stunned, and had run away by the time I arrived, far better a wasted call out, than an animal taking days to die of starvation whilst in pain from broken bones.

Wynne

RE: Evil drivers

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:03:55 GMT

Wynne as ever you are over-reacting. If in your world the peak of evil is leaving a wildlife casualty it is a strange world. Firstly there is no legal requirement for the drivers to stop. Secondly many would be unaware of what to do anyway it is too easy for us to look at it from the perspective of those who know what to do. Thirdly it is another example of how useless the RSPCA are that they expect us to do their bidding for them. I admit I would not be over-keen to go out to such cases. Half the time the casualty is already dead or it has fled anyway.

RE: Evil drivers

grumpyoldman — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:45 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"] can accept that the original accident was truly accidental, but not stopping was unforgivable. Some very nice students phoned the RSPCA who phoned me.[/quote]

We have a busy pub next to one of our surgeries ,and if your unlucky to get a call out at closing time -ish several men of various ages can be seen to be taking to their vehicles with a skinful before wending their merry way home to her indoors via the lanes . This raises 2 points people on drugs or who have had a few over do not stop for anything ,and rural and sub urban traffic policing is a joke

RE: Evil drivers

Michael Woodhouse — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:12:29 GMT

I had someone bring me a roe deer in the boot of their car recently!

(I guess they could have run it over again? I've aimed for hit but flapping pheasants and myxi bunnies before now with my car)