[Closed] Just watched some eejit drive over a duck

That could result in a hefty bill

That's just the way it goose sometimes but it is quackers what people feel entitled to do in their big metal boxes, just swaning along without a care in the world.

I am sure other drivers going past must have thought I had a major vendetta against ducks,

Probably thought you had a strange mallardy (edit sorry Nick, now it looks like you coppied my pun because my edit took ages to post)

I can see the defence in court now... “Not guilty, mallard”

What about ringing it's neck? Surely better than death by flip flop?

I once had to bring forth the demise of a fox, which had been the victim of a hit and run, with a shovel. Probably explains why I'm quackers 😕

Where was this, I might have a gander later.

Thats fowl, the driver should be sent down.

Ruddy ducks should keep off the roads.

Serves then right for not paying road tax. I wonder if they were on their way to a lemonade stand to buy grapes?

Good job it's not Wabbit season....

A mate and I were on a night ride waiting for a car to pass so we could cross a road when a bunny ran out and under the wheels. But it only caught the back ones leaving it trying to pull itself off the road with its front legs. I looked at my mate and said we can't leave it like that. I know, he said......

"I'll hold your bike"

So I picked Bugs up intending to wring its neck when it struck me...I haven't a clue how hard to pull. And a second doubt...if I pulled too hard would I be left standing in the road dressed in lycra and covered in bunny blood holding half in each hand. And would the next car passing be a police car? 'ere Sarge, you won't believe what I've just seen"

So I whacked his head hard against a nearby gatepost. The bunny, not my coward of a mate.

I'm not reading the whole thread. Just Peking in.

They were probably on their way to tell the King the sky was falling in.

Could have been worse  https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/31/heartless-driver-runs-ducklings-mcdonalds-drive-thru-7595220/

nasty having to finish one off - that's a 'canard thing to have to do

Just missed a family of ducks crossing the A9 at the weekend (forget exactly where, but might have been not far from Perth). 2 had run far enough to safety so I didn't need to swerve too much. 1 had already been splatted.

Loadsa roadkill on that road though. Several mostly whole Bambis. Someone in front took out a bird in flight and it was snowing white feathers. And something that had been hit was quite impressively dismembered and decapitated. Not often you see roadkill, and then the head a bit further on, and then a leg or something.

French Guiana was a good one though. Swerve to miss a basking lizardy thing, and it runs straight for the wheels ffs. Did miss the tortoise crossing the road though 😉

Someone managed that in the village where I live. A mother duck and ducklings crossing the high street from the village green. Some distracted dim idiot car driver managed to squash them.

Makes you wonder how it is that as cyclists we survive at all.

I saw a similar thing once - I shouted "DUCK!" Everyone quickly lowered their heads but the car kept going.

Probably hadn’t paid any road quacks. Fair game really.

Makes you wonder how it is that as cyclists we survive at all.

not really.

not really

What if we were 18inches high with webbed feet? Eh? What then eh?

A flip flop doesn't sound like a quick death, shame you didn't have a mallard with you to it hit it with.

To be fair, I think the woman did the right thing - you shouldn't alter course or take evasive action in such circumstances. And I have been there - I swerved to avoid a rabbit (near a place called Harewood incidentally), lost control of the back of the car as I swerved too hard, caught the back wheel on the kerb and flipped it, writing it off (see a recent thread where I posted a picture of my written off Fiesta XR2).

The police said something along the lines of 'don't take evasive action against small animals or drunks'. 🙂 Every time I have come across animals/birds etc in the road since then I have just gripped hard on the wheel, closed my eyes and waited for the bang.

So I picked Bugs up intending to wring its neck when it struck me…I haven’t a clue how hard to pull.

That's for the birds. Haven't you heard of a rabbit chop?

What about ringing it’s neck?

I did that to a pigeon that had been hit by a car it's head came clean off!

A bus ran over a pigeon when I was waiting at a green man once, it was a very impressively loud pop it made. Some people waiting by me were really quite upset.

What if we were 18inches high with webbed feet? Eh? What then eh?

start Whatcranksforwebbedfeettrackworld? thread

A bus ran over a pigeon when I was waiting at a green man once

Reminds me of one of my favourite memories from New York - there are these carriage things that take you round Central Park - one of the wagon-type wheels of one was parked right on the neck of a pigeon. Amused me and I think I took a photo. The rest of New York was dull in comparison.

Were the others on the way to see their flat mate?

Not sure eider done anything different. But disappointed this isn't a limerick thread...

Just seen some eejit run over a duck

****.

Okay, not a limerick.

What if we were 18inches high with webbed feet? Eh? What then eh?

I'd be more likely to use platform pedals.

I’d be more likely to use platform pedals.

I think you mean flap pedals

What if we were 18inches high with webbed feet? Eh? What then eh?

We'd be a short person from Norfolk?

But disappointed this isn’t a limerick thread…

There once was a driver called Fred

Drove over a duck now it's dead

I thought what a prick

The result made me a bit sick

Especially when i had to flip flop it's head

Or

There once was a driver surf matt

I saw him squash a duck flat

I thought what a prick

The result made me a bit sick

And i discovered flip flops weren't made for that.

that must have been canard to see. thought with you.