dogger 100 Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 just a quick question regarding the law on road kill.if you pick up a dead deer of a public road are you breaking the law? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamp+battery 98 Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 i think you carnt stop and pic them up if you have hit them, but could if it was another car that hit them but might be rong lamp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TERRIERCENTRAL Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 yes thats [bANNED TEXT] mate if you hit one you cant take it but if the car behind u decided to take it they can i have done it a few times Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Foxgun Tom 75 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 (edited) There's a thing called reduced to ownership!! While the deer is alive it belongs to no-one because its a wild animal? unless it is in an enclosed space, Deer park etc: If its dead and lying on the verge or on the road? it technically belongs to the owners of the road eg:local authority (reduced to ownership) A further example of this is! If I shoot a pheasant on ground I have permission on! and it fall's on neighbouring land where I don't have permission? the pheasant is reduced in ownership to the owner of the adjoining land and if I don't have permission to retrieve it? its theirs!!! The likliehood of ever being prosecuted for taking roadkill is virtually nil? as your probably saving the owners of the road a bill for removing the carcass Tom just a quick question regarding the law on road kill.if you pick up a dead deer of a public road are you breaking the law? Edited January 20, 2010 by Foxgun Tom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogger 100 Posted January 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 There's a thing called reduced to ownership!! While the deer is alive it belongs to no-one because its a wild animal? unless it is in an enclosed space, Deer park etc: If its dead and lying on the verge or on the road? it technically belongs to the owners of the road eg:local authority (reduced to ownership) A further example of this is! If I shoot a pheasant on ground I have permission on! and it fall's on neighbouring land where I don't have permission? the pheasant is reduced in ownership to the owner of the adjoining land and if I don't have permission to retrieve it? its theirs!!! The likliehood of ever being prosecuted for taking roadkill is virtually nil? as your probably saving the owners of the road a bill for removing the carcass Tom just a quick question regarding the law on road kill.if you pick up a dead deer of a public road are you breaking the law? thanks for the info Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oakey 57 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Be careful with road kill deer , i heard a story of a chap picking one up a feeding it to his dog , next thing dead dog . Turns out it had not been killed out right the vet had been called to give it a lethal injection then he went off to get a truck to put it in when joe blogs turns up and has it away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 29,335 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 stop being a fanny and get it pickedup and that last story did the rounds about 10 year ago, its always a mate of someone that it happened to, urban myth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Foxgun Tom 75 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 (edited) Also if the deer has been lying any length of time and anyone considers it for human consumption be carefull and reconsider!! If the stomach or bladder is ruptured the contents can and does infect the meat as well as tainting it!! Tom Be careful with road kill deer , i heard a story of a chap picking one up a feeding it to his dog , next thing dead dog . Turns out it had not been killed out right the vet had been called to give it a lethal injection then he went off to get a truck to put it in when joe blogs turns up and has it away. Edited January 20, 2010 by Foxgun Tom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,298 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 There's a thing called reduced to ownership!! While the deer is alive it belongs to no-one because its a wild animal? unless it is in an enclosed space, Deer park etc: If its dead and lying on the verge or on the road? it technically belongs to the owners of the road eg:local authority (reduced to ownership) A further example of this is! If I shoot a pheasant on ground I have permission on! and it fall's on neighbouring land where I don't have permission? the pheasant is reduced in ownership to the owner of the adjoining land and if I don't have permission to retrieve it? its theirs!!! The likliehood of ever being prosecuted for taking roadkill is virtually nil? as your probably saving the owners of the road a bill for removing the carcass Tom just a quick question regarding the law on road kill.if you pick up a dead deer of a public road are you breaking the law? "Unauthorised removal of a carcase",but like Foxgun says "Who's gonna tell". A couple or three tales of road kill come to mind . Many years ago I was driving down a bit of road known as "Death Alley" -so named by an ex forum member with the initials DS who was occupying the passenger seat and at the time was always on the prod for subjects to practice his taxidermy skills on- when the cry to stop went up.I stopped my tatty Mk1 Escort near what appeared to be a fur-perfect dead squill laying belly down on the road . . . Out I got and grabbed its tail . It refused to move so I pulled harder . Still no surrender . In fact it appeared to be gripping the tarmac with its feet .That was because it was still very much alive . I let go of the tail pretty quick!. I once spotted an interesting bit of roadkill drama on a country-lane . From a distance it looked like a crow frantically tearing at a corpse of some sort. As I got closer I realised that there was a freshly killed hen pheasant in the gutter. What I'd taken for a crow was actually a cock-bird engaged in repeatedly mounting its dead mate ! Like the pervert I am I watched for a bit before deciding that I'd best move the dead hen from the road before her living mate suffered the same fate . Normally I'd welcome a fresh pheasant corpse but somehow I just could'nt face this one and it went to the ferrets. Then there was the incident with the deer . An ex girlfriend was driving the back roads late at night when the car in front was taken -out by a fallow buck. By chance the next car on the scene was a police vehicle . So one dead deer ,one front-ended car and one ex girlfriend who had the sense to ask what was going to become of the corpse . The copper not only lifted it into the back of her little hatchback but broke the antlers off so the boot would shut ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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