The Cop-Chasing Turkey
Erie County, NY
A one-legged turkey was reportedly in the middle of Willow Ridge Drive. The complainant said the bird was unable to move to the side, but it chased the patrol car that responded.
Found in the Bee News
Small Town Misfit
A selection of police blots from small-town papers
July 4th, 2007 at 3:07 am
What a rip off! Only 1 drumstick?
An associate of mine had hit a pair of male pheasants once. Yep, pinged them off the windshield, but was too scared to pick them up because he didn’t want to get pecked….I told him he was nuts and that only the hens peck.
July 4th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
boys have the peckers tho…
July 4th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
LOL you guys
July 4th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
ya gotta grab birds by the neck and the feet to avoid getting injured. just chalk that up to a lesson learned early in upland-bird country. and yes GT, only one drumstick, but just think of the energy youll save catching that bird!! lol
July 5th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Aftre which Bob Barker was quoted in the Erie County Echo as saying, “I hope they captured it to have it fitted for a prosthetic leg. It’s terrible for a wild bird to have to go through the embarrassment of having only 1 drumstick. Think of the ridicule it has to go through with the rest of the members of the turkey society. If the local authorities don’t have anyone that can do the fitting, I’m sure PETA help.”
July 5th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Bob Barker has a point. Give it a wooden leg. Then add an eye patch and a pet parrot — Tada! Captain Turkey the Pirate!
July 5th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Oh, joy! Pirates of the Caribbean 4 — I’d love to see Johnny Depp trading broadsides with an adversarial wooden-legged pirate captain turkey.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Yep Ford–all we would need is a cop car and we’d be deep in 1 legged turkeys.