I saw a turkey fly. A big wild turkey, over Rte 128 in Burlington, MA at 8:45 this morning. Landed on top of Circuit City.
Maybe I’m missing something, but what’s remarkable about a flying turkey?
It’s just after that horrible incident at the Pinedale Shopping mall in Cincinatti during a radio station’s Thanksgiving promotion…
They were hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!
Oh, the humanity…
EZ
Wild turkeys can fly. Farm raised turkeys can not since they are usually raised for meat and are fattened to the extreme.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/species/2450.html
What they said. I often see flocks of turkeys flying up to roost in the trees. Being dropped from a helicopter, especially if you are a fattened farm-bred turkey, is a different matter altogether.
But the farm-bred turkeys can mount a counter-attack. It’s almost as if…they’re organized.
On Easter Sunday, a cold gray afternoon, I saw a flock of vultures. We drove by the schoolyard and stopped to gawk at a dozen massive birds milling around on the school lawn. Later, I went back on foot, carrying my Field Guide to the Birds. They were continually soaring, landing and taking off. They didn’t have the white patches on the underside of their enormous wings that would have made them Black Vultures, so I guess they were Turkey Vultures. Between the ones on the ground and the ones soaring on the wind, there seemed to be a couple dozen. When I got cold and started home, suddenly there were lots more in the sky. In my amazement, I guessed there were a hundred. For the sake of credibility, I’ll cut that estimate in half.
I had never seen them before, and they weren’t around Monday. I’m guessing they were migrating, and just happened to stop here for the night.
AskNott–
You ain’t seen nothin’.
Those aren’t vultures, they’re buzzards.
And, here in Tennessee, they’re quite common.
My sister rented a house, high up on a ridge (no, not half a mile from the Mississippi bridge 
), and the place swarmed with them.
They’d perch on the railing of her deck, & scare the shit out of her Rotweiller.
And speaking of shit–EWWWW! Those things are nasty!
Ya know…
I don’t suppose an MPSIMS about turkeys is the right place for philosophical rumination, but…it just got me thinking. We’re currently wringing our hands over cloned sheep and tomatos sliced with fish genes and wondering if we’re not PLAYING GOD!!!.
And completely ignoring what we’ve been doing for 10,000 years. Is a tomato spliced with fish DNA something god intended? No. But neither is a turkey that can’t fly. (Or a dog you can fit in your pocket or a strawberry the size of a baby’s fist).
We’ve spent the last 10,000 years creating creatures fatter, dumber and genrerally less capable of surviving in the world than could God could have ever intended. And now we worry about tomatofish? Sheesh.
Sorry, just had to say that…please go back to the WKRP references 
ROFLMAO…
I am a medievalist, in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Our anual war in Pennsylvania fields about 4000 to 5000 people for the largest field battle…
It is not uncommon the war week to see buzzards circling the skies over the main battlefield…I always figure it is some sort of racial memory thing…you know, 2 armies whacking on each other = feeding time when they are dead. They must get really confused when the bodies get up and walk away after the battle=)
http://krieger.home.mindspring.com/graphics/pfield2.jpg
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~drlaw/Pictures/BigPennsic3.jpg
<did i mention that it gets 10000 - 15000 people attending=)?>
aruvqan, never knew Pennsic had buzzards- cool!
[hijack] I see your location is Conn. Do you know Mistress Mirabelle the Tablet Weaver/ Beader?[/hijack]
I’ve seen a horse fly…
I haven’t started my second ‘cup’ of joe, so I’m caffeine-deprived. As I was scrolling down, I thought the thread title was ‘As God is my waitress…’!
God as a waitress serves flying turkeys, apparently.
Now I have a desire to chuck my Thanksgiving dinner into the air and see if it takes wing…
Well if God is your waitress, you’ll never be hungry again!
No.
Loaves, fishes & wine are all that’s on the menu.
The Holy Ghost couldn’t get a beer license in this town…
Yups=)
Been in the SCA since 1978…I know lots of people=) lived in atlantia[marinus] and east [thescorre] as well as BBM=)
Hey, those might be the turkeys that live in my parents’ backyard, ** muldoonthief **. I’m from Waltham