>
> > What are the consequences of the gate being closed but someone
> > forgetting to lock the chain?
>
>
> > ....
> grazing sheep may collide with road traffic
> ....
>
>
> Worst case, somebody dead.
Unlikely. Sheep tend to be a bit low mass in most cases.

On a dark (and not stormy) night a friend and I rode motorcycles on either
side of a cow standing on a country road without (in my case) seeing it
until I was passing it. Hitting even a sheep on a motorcycle could do bad
things to sheep and to rider.

Mr brother in law has a number of dairy herds. On one occasion a cow broke
into the homestead area, leaped into their swimming pool, destroying the
floating cover, extricated itself via the sloping entry ramp, ran the
length of their longish driveway and died on the main highway north in a
vehicle accident. The insurers must have been most impressed.



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