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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1511614,00.html

COUNTRY sportsmen keen on pigeon pie will need to put the cat among them first. Farmers and landowners will also need to hone their windmill gyrations and scarecrow impersonations if they are planning a potshot at crop-eating birds.

The Government has ruled that it is now illegal to shoot a crow, rook or pigeon for the pot without scaring it first. The legislation says shooters must attempt to frighten off the birds before pulling the trigger.

Seriously, what were they smoking, cause I want some.

The same as those in the states who said you can't shoot endangered animals unless its threatening you...so shout

"IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!"

and blow it away legally ;) :D

Pointless bits of legislation that people can easily get around...

Besides, nothing tastes better than scared food. All that adrenaline really gives it that extra 'pang'.

How are they going to check of the bird has been scared first?

It's another one of those pointless laws... real pointless.

And people wonder why I hate humans oh so much...

that must have been the good shit they cracked out, to be able to come up with a law like that. The real law-makers must also have been on holiday to amstderdam too, because why would anyone bother to take the time to make up such a law... unless they were really rather high

Would scaring a crow to death with a gun work?

because why would anyone bother to take the time to make up such a law

Because they can?

Seriously, if I was in a position of power like that I'd be enacting all sorts of bizarre legislation. I'd make it illegal to hold a knife in your left hand while eating, and illegal to hold a knife in your right hand while murdering someone. I'd also make it illegal to use more than three types of shower gel in one year. And if you want to kill a rat, you'd first have to paint a yellow stripe down its back and call it 'Frederick the Great'.

Oh, and then there's the whole Naked Wednesday idea. Wasn't my idea, but it's surely a good idea.

Would scaring a crow to death with a gun work?

I think it would! The sound of the gunshot would scare it a lot! Only problem is that it would die a fraction of a second later...

I think it would! The sound of the gunshot would scare it a lot! Only problem is that it would die a fraction of a second later...

Possibly, depending on what sort of gun you had, the bullet may travel faster than sound and the crow may never hear it, so you'd have to be careful about that one...

On a serious note how could such a law be enforced?

It couldn't generally, but I'd be suprised if pigeon shooting clubs now don't have dozens of animal rights activists hanging round.

OI! you can't shoot that pigeon! It's not scared!

It bloody is scared, I'm pointing a gun at it!

No it isn't, how d'you think a pigeon knows what a bloody gun is?

Well I tell you what, in the instant I pull that trigger and it goes bang - that pigeons gonna shit itself.

On a serious note how could such a law be enforced?

It'll probably end up being forgotten from a legal point of view, like the one that lets you use a longbow to shoot a Welshman at noon in the courtyard of a castle. But oh god is that tempting...

It'll probably end up being forgotten from a legal point of view, like the one that lets you use a longbow to shoot a Welshman at noon in the courtyard of a castle. But oh god is that tempting...

Actually, I beleive that was the town centre at midnight in Monmouth, but was eventually repealed by the county council :p But I could be wrong :)

do we have a welshman anywhere? and does anyone have a castle we can borrow?

Actually, I beleive that was the town centre at midnight in Monmouth, but was eventually repealed by the county council :p But I could be wrong :)

There are so many different versions of the same law that it doesn't seem to matter, unless someone can find the exact text somewhere. Which I'd be really interested in reading! I once heard that it was only a specific castle, on the Welsh border, beginning with 'H' I think. Some say it doesn't matter which castle. Some say it doesn't have to be a castle, a Welshman, a longbow or noon/midnight, but they're the same people that think that it's OK to collect human arms so I don't listen to them. It doesn't matter much anyway, if anyone tried it I'm sure that current murder and anti-racst laws would immediately override the old longbow-related one.