Why do Pheasants decide to take off and land near any vehicle.?
Are they deaf or blind or both ?
Gave a badger a close shave with the car, looked up from the radio and he shot out in front of me and I gave him a glancing blow on his ■■■ as he cracked my front bumper. He got his own back as when i came back with the lorry he had pushed a tree over and the road was shut lol.Ran over a ram, as sheep have the run of the forest,on way back to yard with loaded trailer in the evening a bit dark and someone flashed me, looked back to see if it was a work mate on his way home looked back to see the ram in the road poor bugger didn’t stand a chance. There are plenty of deer around here as well but to make life interesting we have got Wild Boar you need to be in some thing big to tackle one of the Boars
toby1234abc:
Why do Pheasants decide to take off and land near any vehicle.?
Are they deaf or blind or both ?
Bleedin lazy, they refuse to fly and when they do its only half heartedly 
The worst one that I remember was when going from Buckie towards Granton on Spey on a Sunday with a few cars behind me when a large doe run across the road in front of me followed by it’s young one. I anchored up and both would have made it across safely but the youngster decided to turn and run the same way as I was going with the inevitable result I caught it up and it went under the wheels. It seemed to happen in slow motion but the blood an guts all over the road for the cars behind to run through was enough to spoil my day completely, and probably theirs !!
last year in the truck i was going down a single carriagway road at night and saw something on the verge in the distance and slowed down,about 50 yards away i saw it was a large deer…i slowed more and when i was very close it ran across the road…i stopped…missed it just…and then through a gap in the hedge ran a whole herd of the things!!must of been 10 or 12,various sizes…just all followed the big one and went into the feild across the road…first time ive seen a whole load of them like that.
on a sadder note on the way home from work last week in my car i came round a corner and hit one that was lying dead in the road…luckily it was smallish and caused no damage to my car…not so lucky for the deer though.
The worse animal I ever encountered was the wild boar when I was based in Germany. It was the size of a baby hippo with razor sharp 6" tusks. It could run into a car, which was travelling at 50mph, and write the car off, before calmly walking away uninjured! 
When I was a driver on the post I was sent to Exeter from Croydon with one yorkie full of registered letters that had missed the link. It was about 12:00am and off I went. I went on the A303 and then slipped down the A30 into Exeter. As I was going down the A30 it was a very dark bit as it was now about 04:00am ish I saw something dark in front of me, before I could think there was a huge bang and the windscreen exploded all over me! The rear wheels locked and started skidded towards the crash barrier (I was doing 70mph on the limiter at the time - short wheel base 7.5tonne) I managed to turn it away from the crash barrier and it stopped dead in the middle of the road.
After the dust settled there was a huge horn sticking through the windscreen. I jumped out and walked round the front of the lorry there was this huge dear with massive antlers sticking out of it wedged into the front of the lorry. I couldn’t even move it, it was huge and stunk! There was oil and water squirting out all over the road with steam pouring out of the front that I am sure was cooking the dears head!
A bloke walked over who said he was behind and has called the police. They turned up in minutes and I got arrested for killing an endangered species!?!?! I told him he couldn’t arrest me as I had special deliveries on board and I had to stay with the load. I managed to get him to call the Post office in Exeter and the guvnor came out to me. He had a right go at the copper and called him a tw*t and told him to de-arrest me, which he did!. Another lorry turned up I swapped the load and took it back to Exeter. I then got a lift back in an artic heading up to London.
The lorry was a write off, the engine block was cracked and the chassis was twisted, plus all the front end damage. If you see a Dear sign, I suggest you knock back a cog and keep an eye out, they make a big mess.
Mind you got me about 12 hours overtime that day, woohoo!