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Wed 6 Apr, 2011 08:36 am
Why did the turkey sit in the road?
The past couple of days, a turkey has been sitting in the road. Each morning on my commute as I drive onto this onramp to the highway, what appears to be the same turkey is slowing traffic down as he is in the middle of the road just hanging out.
Most recently, this helpful man stopped his car in front of me and got out and waved his arms to encourage the turkey to leave the road. After a few minutes of attempts the turkey got up and moved off the road.
Now what the heck is the turkey in the road – repeatedly and at the same time of day?
@Linkat,
Is this a wild turkey?
Them suckers is smart. He must be sick.
Maybe his foot is stapled to the road.
You know that thread, "if you could go back in time and prevent a great catastrophe, what would it be"?
I would go back in time and undo whatever happened to that poor turkey, that made him want to sit in the road.
@chai2,
Hes waiting for a ride into town.
@Eva,
Yes a wild turkey - I also thought the guy lucky some turkey are mean and will attack.
@Linkat,
He's waiting for somebody to accompany him.......dancing the Turkey Trot.
@chai2,
Nope he got up and went over to the side into the grassy area when the guy kind of waved at him and went towards him. Although the turkey really did not seem like he wanted to move.
Looked like a girl turkey - not all the big feathers or red gobbler thingy - maybe why she wasn't so aggressive. Tends to be the boys that get mean.
@chai2,
Thats even better than bringing the dinosaurs back.
Is it warm? warmer than the surrounding countryside? (ashphelt roads warm up quite quickly.)
Kangaroos tend to come out of the bush and boing along the roads here. I imagine its easier going to hop along the road and the grass along the roadsides tends to be greener.
Does your turkey hop? Perhaps its a kangaroo and you just didnt see it properly.
@dadpad,
There ain't too many kangeroos in the greater Boston area, but many turkeys so I figured because of the size, feathers and such it wasn't a kangeroo. It could be the heat as we are in the midst of spring and I could see the grass being cooler than they road.
@dadpad,
Or a turkey disguise, being worn by a kangaroo?
@PaddyH,
Do turkey disguises shrink them? Not that would be cool.
Quote:There ain't too many kangeroos in the greater Boston area
ergo you are not qualified to make a call not having the actual experience seeing a kangaroo up close and in the wild. Especially one wearing a turkey disguise.
So dont go making rash statements when you have no idea what you are talikng about.
Uhm . . . to hold his pants up . . . no, wait . . . that's why chickens wear red suspenders . . . or is that how firemen get to the other side?
Never mind.
I think I've seen that turkey.
He was collecting for Quincy Pop Warner.
@Linkat,
I looked in google to find some turkey in the road stories. There are a lot. Apparently turkeys like to stand in the middle of a road. Don't know why but they seem to like to.
BBB
@dadpad,
Unfortunately the asphalt isn't conducive to footprints.
@George,
In Milton? Not sure if he will get much for Quincy there.
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