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It’s a decent thing to do.
I was in a LBS once, chatting with the guys and getting my bike fixed, we all witnessed a car ran over a cat when the driver was was starting his a car, a cyclist saw it, stopped the driver and insisted he needed to take it to the vet. It happened in Dulwich, so the neighbourhood vet is less than 5 mins walk. The driver got out of the car, had an argument with the cyclist and drove off, all whilst the kitten was lying in the floor dying. In the end, the shop owner next door took the cat to the vet but it was too late.
It was probably preventable if the driver actually fucking looked! He was just starting his fucking car not driving 40mph!
I picked up a dead kitten from a busy road junction the other day. Morning rush hour, no-one bothering to even slow down, so I just walked out and made the fuckers stop. Tried a few of the nearby houses and most of them seemed surprised I was bothering to try to find the owners. We have just got a new kitten which maybe made it more real, but fuck me, it's someone's pet.