Why did the turkey cross the road?

Answer: To scare the crap out of the motorcyclist(me) coming around the blind turn!!

This is the third denizen of Thanksgiving Dinner I have run afowl(sic) of in the last few weeks.

Dan

fnmag said:

Dumb birds

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No where as dumb as forest rats.......................ff

Saw a couple on a back-roader yesterday. Always puts me in mind of the old Les Nesmund (sp?) skit.

Oh the humanity!!! Someone else remembers that show. LOL

Like us,,, turkeys are normally pretty smart and wary.
But, when spring weather comes... and like us... certain 'hormones' take over and all sense is lost!
Ten feet tall and bulletproof!!!

I was enjoying a rather twisty section of the Great River Road here last week and was made alert by 4 different groups of turkeys within just a few miles. Just around a corner every time. Each group was a tom strutting for his harem of 5-6 ladies. It could be worse ... they could just as easily be groups of deer. This is the toll we pay to enjoy quiet country roads.

Illinois said:

Saw a couple on a back-roader yesterday. Always puts me in mind of the old Les Nesmund (sp?) skit.

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WKRP?

Don B said:

WKRP?

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Loni Anderson!!!
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Don B said:

WKRP?

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Yep. You can relive the skit on youtube- WKRP, when turkeys fly.

I took one in the windsheild just north of Tupper Lake a few years ago doing 50 mph. Feathered everyone riding behing me and bent my windshield backwards. And now my record is one turkey, one dear, shunk and a racoon and something I hit in Idaho (have no idea what that was but sure had a lot of blood on the bike)

Illinois said:

Saw a couple on a back-roader yesterday. Always puts me in mind of the old Les Nesmund (sp?) skit.

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That's a classic. Very funny.