Effing pheasants

CazPaul

CazPaul

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Driving along the M1 today it flew straight into us, what a bang I thought we’d been shot

Made a right mess of the windscreen, hope we can get it sorted quick ish with a new screen.
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Oops they really don't seem to be the most intelligent of birds, hopefully you can get the windscreen sorted quickly.
 
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chaser said:
Hope you didn't pick up the dead as it's against the law but anyone behind can pick them up quite legally :unsure:
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On the M1?
Yes I stopped and picked up the 350 bits of it.

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Friday, en route to Fakenham on a long straight stretch of B road I spotted a pheasant on the offside verge about to step into the road, I slowed, he stopped, I accelerated at the same time as he did and I hit the brakes as he miraculously flew up from under the grill to safety in the nearside hedge. My tyres are probaly down a mm or two.
 
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I had one hit the radiator grille on a work van luckily, it went straight through and only just missed the rad. I kept going and found it sticking out of the grille when I got to the next call. I don't know how much it cost to fix but I expect a few hundred quid

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Had to stop on a bend yesterday whilst a pair tried to decide which way to go. They eventually scampered off on the other side of the road. The next thing I saw in my mirrors was a cloud of dust as a 38t drawbar lorry going the other way threw out his anchor to avoid them
 
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CazPaul said:
Driving along the M1 today it flew straight into us, what a bang I thought we’d been shot

Made a right mess of the windscreen, hope we can get it sorted quick ish with a new screen.
With the emphasis on ish



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We had the same on the A14. A pheasant just launched itself at us from the verge. The top radiator grill was broken and as our van is pre 2005 the dealers don’t stock the part and I had to get it from Germany. Who were amazingly efficient.
A week later in our car a covey of partridge burst out of a hedge and one completely destroyed a wing mirror.
I am feeling targeted by game birds. The partridge was on the Sandringham estate. Perhaps King Charles will cough up for a new mirror.
 
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These guy's did a good job on my Hymer windscreen, they can also do side windows, and have them made if necessary.

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Lots of the small brained darlings around here....... They run down the road in front of the car panicking before they remember they can fly.......


Deer are almost as bad as they leap over hedges onto the road. There is never just one so if you do see a single one hand on as the friends will be following.
 
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Lots of the small brained darlings around here....... They run down the road in front of the car panicking before they remember they can fly.......


Deer are almost as bad as they leap over hedges onto the road. There is never just one so if you do see a single one hang on as the friends will be following.
 
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During my time working at the roadside I was called to a Renault 5 that had been hit by a Pheasant. It hit the top of the windscreen denting the edge of the roof and penetrated the windscreen. There was blood and feathers inside the car including on the driver and passenger.
A colleague of mine was working in on the A1 in North Yorkshire and a deer leapt over a fence landing on the bonnet of his Transit. It rolled up the windscreen on to the roof. The damage nearly wrote off the van.
If that had been a car it landed on it could have been fatal.

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Didn’t the insurance pay for it though?
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I paid the factory then insurance paid me ,auto glass the equivalent in Germany wouldn’t touch it but the factory had a special gantry and a mechanism to lower the screen into place. The embarrassing thing was when I came to pay there wasn’t enough room on my credit card,I’d spent on a new Alda boiler on the way to Germany it proved an expensive trip.Did you know if you can’t pay they put you in a compound to await payment,luckily a friend paid it and I got out of jail🤭The good thing is they remember me when I go back there and it’s a joke to them👍
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CazPaul said:
Driving along the M1 today it flew straight into us, what a bang I thought we’d been shot

Made a right mess of the windscreen, hope we can get it sorted quick ish with a new screen.
With the emphasis on ish



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Many moons ago in a country far far away I was driving my Ford Bronco through the principal city (not America as it happens) and people kept staring at me with horrified expressions. It wasn't until I got out of the vehicle to find a Grackle (large, noisy, black bird common to Caribbean countries) cruciform in the radiator grille that I understood why people kept crossing themselves as I drove past.
 
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I paid the factory then insurance paid me ,auto glass the equivalent in Germany wouldn’t touch it but the factory had a special gantry and a mechanism to lower the screen into place. The embarrassing thing was when I came to pay there wasn’t enough room on my credit card,I’d spent on a new Alda boiler on the way to Germany it proved an expensive trip.Did you know if you can’t pay they put you in a compound to await payment,luckily a friend paid it and I got out of jail🤭The good thing is they remember me when I go back there and it’s a joke to them👍View attachment 1039905
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Good to know that they do windscreens. I have only needed to have had minor work done there: they fitted new sidescreen seals (20 yo) and started a day earlier than appointment.

They are not cheap, but their work is spot on, and they will accept older vehicles for repair, unlike some factories. Even though N&B models do not need much repairing it is good long-term to know that they are there if needed.
 
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