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A Tokyo taxi driver was arrested for deliberately driving into a flock of pigeons and killing one.
According to police, the driver 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, a Tokyo police spokesman told AFP.
He sped off from a traffic light when it turned green, ploughing his taxi into the bevvy of birds at a speed of 60 kilometres 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 post-mortem on the hapless pigeon and determined its cause of death as a traumatic shock.
Ozawa reportedly told the media that roads belonged to humans and that the pigeons should have dodged out of the way.
Police called his behaviour "highly malicious" for a professional driver.
