RIP Turkey
So this happened while I was driving back, but I decided to put it in its own entry.
We were driving south on 28 through upstate New York to thor’s house. We’d stopped to get gas only a few minutes before and I had bought some cough drops to hopefully help feel better. I looked down for a second to get a tissue and a cough drop, and I suddenly hear Gavin (aka Boykee online, a friend of thor’s from bridge) say “WATCH OUT!” … I look up and see thor in the oncoming traffic lane and a HUGE turkey in the middle of the road. Needless to say, we were speeding a little bit (btw, NEVER try to follow thor on the highway if you’re ever presented with the opportunity. It’s relatively impossible) and a turkey like 30 feet ahead + driving fast = dead turkey. Even if I was driving 10 MPH under the speed limit, I would have hit it. I think I pretty much decapitated the thing. All I saw in the rear-view mirror was the turkey tumbling in the road and a huge cloud of feathers flying everywhere. Somehow, the car doesn’t seem damaged at all — the turkey didn’t get hit by a wheel, it got hit by my front bumper and then passed right under the car. To be honest, I kinda wish I had some proof of it on the car so I could get a picture of some kind, but there’s nothing there at all… not even a dent of any kind.
I feel bad for the farmer, but he really needs to secure his turkeys when his barn is right on the side of the road. The turkey can’t possibly know it’s a bad idea to go walking in the middle of the road, so I’m guessing it happens a lot to that farmer.
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