Hedgehogs
 

I just wonder, hedgehogs will become more active as the weather improves, I can honestly say that I've never noticed running over one, or a rabbit or even a p(h)easant, is this because I'm a careful driver, or is it because my vehicles suspension is less sensitive than I am?

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Maybe you drive to slow and they run away.

I have hit a few things, rabbits, pheasant, and most recently a magpie that I had to fish out of my grill with long nose pliers yukk

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Ya mite have noticed hitting a deer Less, I believe Venison is very nice too:D

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I think it's a weight issue.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...kju8srFwoXBgwQ

Try carring sandbags, and you might have better luck.

:D

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Strangely enough Neil, I just got flashed for speeding, yes, I'm guilty, but the annoying thing is...

For a fortnight on the road I travel regularly, temporary traffic lights urgent gas repairs.
The first Monday the delay is removed, I'm busy thinking, no delay how wonderful, Doh, forgot the speed camera, clickety, click.
What the hey, I WAS speeding, but no chance of appealing, (unless on mental grounds), nothing there to slow me down.
If only I'd seen a hedgehog to vent my spleen upon.

I'd have slowed down.

Now my choice is, to pay fine, get three points, or pay extra nine pounds attend speed awarness course. Then lose a days pay?

Oh, dear.
(still deciding, after all nearly 20 years since last speeding offence, I could save myself 3 pints and a bit).

OR

Do I attend, but pay no attention?

Do I really need to be lectured for a genuine mistake?

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Go on the course.

There might be a nice certificate.

Or even a medal, of your very own!

Just think how proud you'd be.

Like a peacock, strutting about.

Just be careful crossing the road.

You might end up as flat as your trinket.

:D

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I am told the course is interesting.

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Doh! At least one of you should have said go for mental grounds, then I might have got away with it by bringing forth witnesses.
:(

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Less, like you I was just over the limit and had the choice. I decided to pay for the course(£80) but was ill on the day and couldn't go. No second chance allowed so result-£80 fee, £60 fine, 3 points and extra insurance charge fo 5 years.
If you take the course you aren't done for speeding so you save on insurance( I think it cost me an extra £30-£40 year) so overall it's the better, cheaper option. However, I believe they treat you like a very naughty, very small child-amongst other things you have to stand up and confess your wickedness and sins to the group and tell them how you have learnt to repent.
Not to your taste I would think?

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(Arise Less)

'Hello group, my name's Less, and I'm a speed addict.'

'I can offer no defence for my life-style choice, though in mitigation I'd like you to know I've never knowingly squashed a hedgehog.'

(Ripple of applause, and a comforting, knowing pat on each arm, from neighbouring speed freaks.)

:D

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Thank's for that.
:)

Though I suspect you were an even naugtier boy than I, my fee is £69.

Now, bend over six of the best and we'll say no more about it.
:eek:

Though now I'm tempted, Confess? ME?

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I know where I can get six of the best for a lot less than that! With my insurance costs I can't afford £69!

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No, neither can I,
but what the hey, I must be able to, I'm a driver, no chance of appeal, no chance for mitigating circumstances, turn up to the Magistrate and risk worse, yes I was guilty, but a thief that knocks an old lady to the floor get's more chance of pleading his case than I do.

Anyway back to hedgehogs...

How do you like them cooked?


MMMMMmmmmm!




Road Kill.


It's that Neils fault.
;)

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Baked in clay, with a Romany jus.

;)

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Don't fancy hedgehog, but on the Leyland/Southport back road a couple of days ago a herd of red deer ran out right in front of us! I didn't have time to accelerate and if Neil struggled with a magpie imagine getting a red deer out of your grill! But venison!! It might have been worth it.

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Nowt wrong wi' hedgehog, comes with it's own toothpicks!
;)

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Less i got done fer 36 mph, a couple of years ago, paid the fine, got 3 pts (only ones i ever had) but me insurance never went up.

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Less , you may want to check if this place has a local UK branch/link ...

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I only ever got pulled for speeding once, was back in the seventies in a works van on the duel carriageway going into Chorley, thought it was a 40 was doing 36, I mentioned it to a workmate when I got back to base, he advised me to write a groveling letter to the chief constable at Chorley, which I did, I said I had a clean licence and on this occasion was a little late for a job fitting a shop out (which incidentally was opposite the nick in Chorley) about 10 days later I got a reply saying that on this occasion no further action would be taken but the incident would remain on the file and could be used in any other road traffic incident I may be involved in, it never was and is unlikely it will ever I stopped driving 16 years ago for medical reasons

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I hadn't thought of that! I was going to advise Less to take the points and the fixed penalty, which is the route I wish I'd taken. The course costs more than the points and the half day off just adds to the misery. I can now see how (in the long run) it's probably cheaper to take the course.

Not my experience of the course that runs in Leyland - The only pretentious bit is in the classroom where they stress that they don't use the word "accident" because only a tiny fraction of incidents are true accidents. If the root cause of an incident is alcohol, or excessive speed, or distraction, or tiredness, or whatever - it's avoidable, so it's no longer an accident but a crash. They give you a bunch of statistics, they show a few slides of vehicle carnage.

In the car, "offenders" are paired up and given a refresher that's similar to current lesson/test. Let's face it, they can't spend three or four hours asking, "What is the speed limit here, and what speed do you think you're doing?" They also ask you on a three or four minute run to talk continuously describing the potential hazards and how you're preparing for the possibility that they become a hazard.