Re: Bugs, usted to be Wolfman's grav tank model

Brian Bilderback wrote:

>> From: "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
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>> NSTRH: A few years ago the great state of West Virginia made it legal

>> for people to pick up/takehome/eat roadkilled animals.
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> Ok, I'm going to really show my upbringing here.  That actually can 
> run the gamut from as gross as it sounds to not so bad.  When I was 
> young and poor, my family hit a pheasant with the family car.  It 
> landed to the side of the road.  It was never run OVER, and never on 
> the road, but technically it was roadkilled.	Yes, we ate it.  It was 
> delicious.  an animal that's just been killed by a car is no different

> than an animal killed by a rifle in terms of edibility/deadness.  It's

> the stuff that's been lying there that I would never touch.

I remember a case a few years ago when a driver was prosecuted for 
running over and killing a pheasant .. out of season. IIRC he was let 
off because the magistrate decided that the law (dating from the 16th or

17th C) didn't pertain to cars, since they hadn't been invented at the 
time it was drafted !

Whether or not he ate the pheasant isn't recorded :-)

Tony