Danger-Mouse Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 Clipping along through Chesterfield today and from some fields to my right hand side a hen pheasant decided to cross the road at low altitude. The result was undoubtedly fatal for her but she did extract a ittle revenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 I had a cock pheasant years ago remove the mounting bracket for the light on the off side of a brand new punto when I was about 18 and borrowing the car! Cost him his life and nearly cost me my life when my dad found out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyefor Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Many moons ago my (long gone) dad was driving the hand-built prototype of the Vauxhall ('trans-continental") FE victor back from MIRA (near Coventry) to Vauxhall Luton and decided to take the "scenic route" around Woburn Abbey, through the villages, stop at home for a cup of tea, and then back to the factory in Kimpton Road, Luton. Out struts Mr Cock Pheasant and.....splat. One, not well, pheasant. Dad thinks. What a waste. Picks it up, puts behind drivers seat and proceeds on his way. 10 minutes later, said cock pheasant (only stunned) thinks double U, Tee, eff is going on here and does a whirling dervish dance around the light linen coloured interior of the FE Vauxhall Victor whilst jugular vein now seems to have ruptured. Sadly (according to dad), the pheasant then expired. End result? The then (1970 ish?) £250,000+ cost of hand built car interior looks like a crime scene. Many hours later my mum has managed to clean the car interior as best possible and now, (after dark) dad returns the car to Kimpton road ready for the following days' press photo shoot. For this occasion, Vauxhall had built a false wall in the experimental department, on which they had stuck photo's of palm trees for the (then ok , but now totally non-pc) bikini clad dolly birds to display themselves around the car for the press release photos. During the night, between the original wall and the false wall, a pipe burst which filled the cavity with water which then collapsed on to the prototype which had to be completely rebuilt. Nobody ever mentioned the stained head lining & interior. The car as a prototype did not fare well. As a released model, it did no better. Motto? Wring it's ******* neck before you put it in the car! Edited September 30, 2017 by Eyefor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose man Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Just out of the paint shop after someone backed into it in the car park a cock pheasant decided to get me to book it straight back in ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Please say these have all been eaten afterwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/212685-o-t-what-a-pheasant-can-do-to-your-boxster.html&ved=0ahUKEwjc3rKqp8zWAhWFvRoKHXL8BgcQFgiGATAb&usg=AOvVaw2RBkWhGR4fFgHLdeNfnMs8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon69 Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/212685-o-t-what-a-pheasant-can-do-to-your-boxster.html&ved=0ahUKEwjc3rKqp8zWAhWFvRoKHXL8BgcQFgiGATAb&usg=AOvVaw2RBkWhGR4fFgHLdeNfnMs8 Wow!! He must have been doing well over 100mph for that to happen!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzicat Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Years ago En Route to Grantown on Spey, at speed on Pitlochry bypass a hen pheasant parked itself in the radiator grill of the wifes new fiat uno,when years later the car was scrapped, the shape of birds head & bodywas still visible in radiator matrix, it never leaked or ran hot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose man Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Please say these have all been eaten afterwards 40mph ..the motor smashed , the pheasant smashed , food never really came to mind , besides there's half a freezer full of oven ready whole ones in the garage .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Wow!! He must have been doing well over 100mph for that to happen!!160mph and the car was written off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 I was heading home from ferreting threw a estate and a hen pheasant took off at the passengers side of the car took the wing mirror clean off , i was lucky it landed in the verge a simple job of popping it back in , i thought at least i will have got a pheasant looked up and down that ditch and never found it . No saying the car or myself where unlucky a week i shot threw the drivers wing mirror with a air gun while lamping rabbits at my work after calling myself allsorts a week later i did the same thing and it had two holes punched clean threw it after a trip to a scrap yard for a replacement ive never gone for the treble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Brand new Honda CBR one day old giving it some beans (93) and on the downhill slope into Lochearnhead a "mcdonalds brown bag" flew up from the middle of the road and it my left elbow... OUCH! ....a hen pheasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 I had a mallard smash my drives side wing mirror off , it was on a brand new hire car and cost me £125 excess .The total bill was something along the lines of £500 because it had to be done by a main seat dealer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Some years ago on the back of a fairly fast zx12 ,on the way to Bala in North Wales we happened upon a couple of wayward pheasants in the road,.Having pulled up as we only saw one in the rear view mirror, we discovered a very lively female bird trying to hitch a ride wrapped around the air intake..We pulled said bird out and it shot off through the hedge dragging its wing. ... Footnote for team tractor ,i would think that Mr Fox had an easy supper that night. from Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Driving down the A50 in the old Defender doing about 50mph a wood pigeon hit the off side door mirror. Cracked the mirror and totalled the pigeon. Cost me about £10 for new mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
station Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/212685-o-t-what-a-pheasant-can-do-to-your-boxster.html&ved=0ahUKEwjc3rKqp8zWAhWFvRoKHXL8BgcQFgiGATAb&usg=AOvVaw2RBkWhGR4fFgHLdeNfnMs8 You beat me to this - my mate showed it me a few years back and simply Wow ! ATB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 A few years back, a friend of mine was driving with the drivers window down. Cock pheasant flew in through the open window in front of the driver, and crashed into the passenger side window. Half dead bird flapping around in the car, nearly caused a nasty accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Shredder. Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 Had a pheasant do a hedge hop and fly into the front wheel of a Suzuki 380 while on my way home from work one night, covered head to toe in corn mash and guts, my father hosed me off in the back garden prior to getting the leathers off. To say it stank would be an understatement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tetlee Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 A mate was riding his Ducati...at speed..in the back lanes of West Sussex when a Cock Pheasant shot out of the hedge row and hit him full in the face. Fortunately a full face lid with the visor down, but he clipped the verge, lost control and ended up face down in a dry ditch with the Duke lying across his legs. A bit groggy, he then felt his left calf muscle on fire but couldn't get his leg from under the bike. With the exhaust downpipe burning through his leathers, screaming and in terrible pain, he blacked out. Passing cars couldn't see him down in the ditch and it was only later when a bloke in a lorry happened to look down into the ditch that he was spotted and rescued. Nine months plastic surgery to rebuild a leg muscle and he still limps noticeably. He hates Pheasants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger-Mouse Posted September 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 I forgot to mention that where that photo was taken, my next delivery . . . Old Pheasant Court. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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