Hit a dog one night coming along the western freeway(Brisbane). The mess left on my patrol was massive . Police had a fairly good look when they came past.
I just keep driving
Turn around, check on the animal and pouch and put it out of its misery
Keep driving but ring wildlife care
Turn around and check on it but dont have the heart to kill it usually so ring Wildlife care
Hit a dog one night coming along the western freeway(Brisbane). The mess left on my patrol was massive . Police had a fairly good look when they came past.
I drove thousands of kms in central Australia this month and saw lots of killed kangaroos, some foxes and a cat, even some big stock in remote areas. Nobody seems to care for retrieving them from the road or track, so they remain dangerous obstacles for a while until flatten out enough. They also attract big eagles which are pretty picturesques. I think small vehicule owners may stop and move the corpse out of the way (that I would do), so they just decay on the edge, but big trucks won't afford that and would keep rolling or if they manage to stop hundreds of meters further, it would be to check their mechanics only.
Driving up Ivanhoe way we hit I kid you not 20 owls, 12 foxes, 2 roo and 2 sheep on the space of 2 hrs.
The owls were sitting on the white posts, startled mice /rabbits ran on road when we approached
Owls swooped to get them POW. Same with FoXes, Sheep in wrong place at wrong time
Last edited by threedogs; 13th June 2013 at 07:44 PM.
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I always stop to check on the welbeing or otherwise of the animal.
The one occasion I didn't was when I had hit somethng without realising, when driving our bus between Tenterfield & Casino. We had stopped for a cuppa by the side of the road a few kms before Casino & I noticed fresh blood & flesh splattered underneath the bus for virtually it's full length. It had even sprayed up through an air vent on the step, through to the interior. As we were discussing what had happened & how it could have happened without us being aware of it, a cop car passed, stopped a few hundred metres down the road & did a 'U'ey. As he did so, my wife, quick witted as ever, commented 'maybe it was a person & the cops are looking for you'. Within moments the cop car had passed us again & disappeared up the road, but she had me going briefly! Took a lot of dollar coins at the wash bay in Casino to get rid of the 'evidence, which by then was getting a bit 'on the nose.
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That would have been funny!!!!!!! great sense of humour your wife has Ian.Originally Posted by Cuppa
Depends what it is, if edible, I skin it, gut it ,butcher it and take it home.
It is now official, we are not quite so sh@t at cricket as we were! Rugby Union is a different matter.
TPC (21st June 2013)
You should move over here, endless supply of Roo road kill and they are great eating.
I wish them all the best with their recovery
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BigRAWesty (21st June 2013)
Now was he in the process of taking that to his mate when you ran him down?????
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Snatch straps on towballs can harm and/or kill!!!!!!
Nah, it was after he thought he was superman i went to the shops and got him that and some chocolates but i ate the chocolates on the way back
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