GoSeigen wrote:
If you're going to do this you should aim for the rear of the animal as they seldom decide to move backwards!
You've obviously never driven your car across Hungerford Common through the mob of 150 cows.....
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GoSeigen wrote:
If you're going to do this you should aim for the rear of the animal as they seldom decide to move backwards!
Mike4 wrote:GoSeigen wrote:
If you're going to do this you should aim for the rear of the animal as they seldom decide to move backwards!
You've obviously never driven your car across Hungerford Common through the mob of 150 cows.....
tjh290633 wrote:Having been brought up in the Forest of Dean, I know quite a bit about commoners' rights. If your sheep are grazing on common land, all well and good, but if they wander into town, or somebody's garden, then they are likely to be put "In Pound", and a fee will be demanded for their release. Traditionally the fee was £1.
Lootman wrote:tjh290633 wrote:Having been brought up in the Forest of Dean, I know quite a bit about commoners' rights. If your sheep are grazing on common land, all well and good, but if they wander into town, or somebody's garden, then they are likely to be put "In Pound", and a fee will be demanded for their release. Traditionally the fee was £1.
I would have thought that any animal on my land becomes my property. Tonight's dinner, perhaps?
In the US it is common for drivers who hit an animal on the highway to take it home and eat it. As the saying goes: "Roadkill - from the Interstate to your dinner plate"!
bungeejumper wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So I was knackered and looking forward to putting the tent (and the feet) up, when I encountered the wild horses. They saw me before I saw them, and the alpha stallion had no intention of letting me walk my intended course across their area. So I had to do a dog-leg around them, and was even more knackered.
Oh yes, I had that stallion thing in a field with a public footpath, also half a lifetime ago. We heard the bogger coming at us before we saw him, but he was all testosteroned up for a fight, and intent on malicious damage.
We, on the other hand, had a picnic and two small children with us. We made it across the stile with seconds to spare, and the horse hit the barbed wire fence so hard that he must surely have scarred himself. Had to leave the picnic stuff abandoned in the field. The stuff of recurrent nightmares. My god, what might have happened.
BJ
GoSeigen wrote:DAK how grazing on common land is regulated in England. I expect there must be a concise summery somewhere but I also would imagine a lot is based on common law (pun unavoidable) so not codified. What is particularly pertinent to me is how obligations and liability are assigned, e.g. if I am grazing my animals on some common land and then they enter neighbouring private property and cause damage how is that sort of situation resolved? Is some blame allotted to the private landowner for not having secured his property with a fence or hedge for example? Or what if the animals leave the common land and wander through a town, presumably they can be impounded, but what law prevents the owner allowing his animals to stray off the common land? Alternatively I could imagine the commonage is the responsibility of a parish or council who are supposed to ensure (using fencing, gates etc) animals cannot escape from that area? Not likely but possible I suppose.
GS
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