Pigeon hit-and-run

To quote from an AFP report:

A Tokyo taxi driver was arrested for deliberately driving into a flock of pigeons and killing one, police in Japan said on Tuesday, reportedly because he was angry that the birds were on the road.

Atsushi Ozawa, 50, “used his car to kill a common pigeon, which is not a game animal”, in the Japanese capital last month, and was arrested on Sunday for violating wildlife protection laws, said a Tokyo police spokesman.

Ozawa sped off from a traffic light when it turned green, ploughing his taxi into the bevy of birds at a speed of 60km (37 miles) per hour, local media said.

The sound of the engine reportedly prompted a surprised passer-by to report the incident.

Tokyo police had a veterinarian perform a postmortem on the hapless pigeon and determined its cause of death as traumatic shock, according to local media.

“Roads belong to humans, so pigeons should have dodged out of the way,” Ozawa was quoted by local media as telling investigators.