Thread: Keeping New Zealand safe. one sheep at a time!

Yeah and one doesn't necessarily need to even hit the animal for it to cause death or injury (e.g. swerving to avoid and hitting another car / flying off a cliff etc.)

What a great decision that cop made. Our families safety is a lot more important than some ones ewe.

Good shooting too, no pressure we're filming you...

I see that a copper had a near miss this morning from death after hitting a steer on the road.
ANY livestock is too f*ckn dangerous just to be left to wander roads and highways.

Couple years ago wife and I on our road bike ran into a mob of heifers that had got out.
Happened 10 pm at night.
Not a great deal of fun.
But reckon if we had been in a car would have probably had one through the windscreen which would have been worse.
The problem today is the standard of fencing and stock security in general is heaps better than it used to be.
Electric fencing and hot wire help too.
And when they get out stock are unexpected.

Bloody Farmers! Just a disgrace all the wild livestock on our roads

I almost hit a young bull on the road a few at 5am one morning last week.
Another farming type gentleman stopped after he almost hit it too, we tried to herd it back through a gate but it wasn't keen on that and resorted to trying to charge me and then tanked off down the road. Don't know where it ended up going, but I know if someone had shot it would certainly not have complained.

I also had a close run in with 4 dairy cows on the same stretch of road, thankfully they were a pretty docile and were keen to get back into a paddock.

Needless to say, coming across cattle on the road is not fun and had I been in that same situation I would've shot the Ewe. Herding sheep in a paddock can be hard enough for un-experienced folk, let alone on SH1.

Had a close call with a dark brown horse on SH1 one night, hard to see until you're already too close for comfort. Fortunately it seemed to know where it was going and buggered off over a fence heading away from the road.

I've come across a horse on SH2 at 10pm at night, luckily it was in a 70km zone, just before the 100km zone. Near Taneatua, so no surprise there.

I swerved a frog the other night, not many around these days plenty of those moaning humans though ha ha ha

Originally Posted by Gibo

I swerved a frog the other night, not many around these days plenty of those moaning humans though ha ha ha

I try hit em. Fresh rains here then theres millions of them on the road

Originally Posted by Toby

I try hit em. Fresh rains here then theres millions of them on the road

We used to see that, id say all the orchard spray has thinned em out. You will grow up one day killer

Clean waters,full ponds frogs are plenty .....how do i fence the frogs in?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Clean waters,full ponds frogs are plenty .....how do i fence the frogs in?

use smaller chainlink

Horse this time......
"Motor Vehicle Crash - Truck v Horse - State Highway One, Foxton - Horowhenua - National Alerts"

22 July, 2015 At just after 9pm a horse from a nearby property ran onto State Highway One near Foxton.

The horse was struck by a Ute and a truck killing it instantly.

The Ute rolled causing moderate injuries to the driver.

A third vehicle had to take evasive action causing it to collide with a power pole which brought power lines down trapping the driver in the car for over 2 hours until the scene could be made safe for the driver to be extracted. The drivers of the Ute and the car were taken to Palmerston North hospital in moderate conditions; the driver of the truck suffered no injuries.

I hope those drivers thought about opening a gate before they decided to plow into the horse with their vehicles