Next Thursday, a turkey will be a welcome guest in most American homes, but don’t be fooled. Alive and free-range, Meleagris gallopavo is a danger to life, limb, and giblets. Wild turkeys are flying into windshields and killing motorcyclists on roads across the country. In Canada, too. A bird even tried to take out a sixteen-wheeler on I-75 in Kentucky.
And the big birds have politics. Turkeys hate the media as much as any Tea Party loon:
UPDATE: “Roads & Wildlife,” George A. Hurst, National Wild Turkey Federation Wildlife Bulletin No. 23
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November 18, 2011 at 4:44 pm
The early pilgrims would be proud of how tough Americans are.
Let’s see PETA defend turkeys after this terrible assault.
Gobbles may geeble but they never FALL down.
I can go for days.
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