Salut/Hi Panda,

le/on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:02:17 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

>Oh so gross!

???? A bird is a bird. Either it's good to eat or it isn't.

> I try to keep an open mind,

Not hard enough, IMO.

> but in my Western mind pigeons are just the most disgusting creatures and I can't imagine ever eating
>them.

Not to your western mind, I'm also a westerner and I find pigeons no more
disgusting than any other bird, and their shit is considerably less stinky
than ducks, geese and any number of seabirds. So it's to your _prejudiced_
mind. You're of course entitled to your prejudices and opinions, but if you
express them here, and in such strong language, then you musr expect to get
your _personal, biased, and stupid_ opinion equally strongly criticised.

As for aiming your car at birds, I have done it successfully with pheasants
a couple of times. The art is to make sure you get them while still on the
ground. That way you can knock their heads off with the engine without
damaging them, and they're as good for the pot as if you had shot them. It's
also a bad idea to chase them onto the roadside. There are often hidden
obstacles - like ditches and insurance companies tend to take a dim view of
a claim for a new suspension because you were pigeon or pheasant hunting IN
the car.
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