The law in the UK is a bit weird, you can't eat what you knock down but you can take what the car infront has hit. Not 100% sure how that's enforced but it's probably there to discourage people from swerving and try to hit a tasty snack. So do you eat roadkill? (Just for clarity I'm referring to animals)
No
Only animals I've hit myself
Only animals I've seen other cars hit
As long as it's recent and still fresh
Only farm animals like sheep, sssh don't tell the farmer
I've never eaten road kill and don't want to. A couple years ago during the rut I hit a deer on the highway that was looking for love instead of for cars. Did over $5,000 in damage to the front of my car. The Highway Patrol trooper who made the report asked if I wanted the deer; when I said I didn't, he called the desk to have someone come out and get it. I didn't know it at the time, but it turns out the police keep a list of people wanting road kill deer for venison, but apparently if you hit it, you get first crack at it.
Deer. We were on a training exercise. The sergeant major was driving us in the back of a truck. He hit a deer. He drove by the game warden's office. He said we could keep it. He dropped us off and told us to carry the deer into camp. Some guys knew how to dress it out. Because of the trauma s lot of the meat was tainted. They were able to salvage some meat from the hind legs. They did all that away from the camp and we had to bury the carcass deep because we didn't want to attract any wild animals. Long time ago, kind of a blur.
You gotta stop this 'purple", making me tell all my hidden food items. Only thing I don't eat after I hit it is small children that live on my street. Wait a minute! Are they considered to be 'roadkill"? Only other thing I don't stop and pick up and cook is a skunk (is that a polecat in the UK? I leave 'em if I broke the scent gland, it ruins the taste of the meat!!!
Some years ago my husband sadly hit and killed a deer, he somehow managed to get this poor animal into the range rover, and took it to a local hotel where he knew the owners and chefs... A few days later he got a call inviting us to have a full evening meal which naturally included a venison main course, as well as taking home a few pieces for our enjoyment later.
Yeah, just the once. A hare. I really tried to avoid the poor animal, but it got confused by the headlights and when it was on the other side of the road, instead of continuing, it went back.
Oh well, I finish the poor thing, put it on a piece of cardboard in the boot and arrived to my friend's house with a little "surprise" lol
No I have not however when I lived down south I heard of guys who would purposely try to run into deers outside of hunting seasons because they were allowed to take the meat home. Really stupid sh! t it doesn't sound worth it to me. So you f#$k your grille but you get to eat venison.
@Bricealan I know but some people actually do. I have heard/seen some weird stuff living down south! Ever heard of eating squirrels... I was like nah I'll pass. And in some areas if you hit a dear you are allowed to drag it out have it butchered and of course they eat it
Governments don’t want you to shoot your Neighbor while trying to catch that rabbit… If it’s dead in road then roll up-on and pick-up curve service is an allowable Method to Eating.
I haven't eaten such animals bc I don't drive. There's an easy workaround of that law - simply have your immediate relatives or closest friends in a second car behind you. Hit the animal and move on. They'll pick it up, then you meet up with them and eat it together.
Now I suddenly feel like playing "Mad Max", only because you mentioned "road kill".
I told a soldier from new Zealand that joke in Afghanistan. Interchangeably you can use Aussie, Kiwi, guy from North Dakota... whatever. I meant to use "Aussie" as I told the joke to the new Zealander... I got em mixed up. I said Kiwi. He almost jumped across the room to start a fight.
What do the welsh call a sheep tied to a fence? The leisure centre, what do they call a sheep loose in a field? The sports centre. Yep I've heard them all. Fun fact, the sheep shagging thing comes from the old practice of using sheep intestines as condoms.
@purplepoppy @DonkeyDan This is all disgusting and hilarious at the same time. I feel like we're a bunch of 11 year old kids hiding in the back of the school telling dirty jokes. Thanks for the laughs...😉
I've had pheasant and deer. I was in no way involved in the running over, butchering or cooking - just the eating. A few of my friends are foraging/bushcraft instructors, so they're quite into that sort of thing.
Nope. I just throw a little blessing out for the poor animal as i continue driving. If its something i hit though, id go back and make sure its not alive enough to be saved because if it was i wouldn't leave it there.
no. but my father would visit peoples houses that my family knew back then and they would have opossum and squirrel. probably other stuff we typically wouldn't eat. i remember eating intestine for the first time
Can't say I have, though that is a weird law, weird in that if you hit something you can't eat it but if someone in front of you hit something then you can /=.
Good idea! I HAVE occasionally picked up a Tootsie Roll that was run over only once. Still wasn't bad though. Now the Reeses Cup would REALLY be smashed!!!
I live in rural West Cumbria and have regularly picked up pheasants & deer I've hit, it would be a waste to leave them, I've never touched any of the other animals listed.
Hey, 'aided' she is just jerkin our chains. She isn't serious with that question. I told her I just don't stop and pick up small children that I run down on my street!!! That will have her peeing her pants!!!
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