Posted on 11/18/2005 4:45:41 PM PST by shooter223
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Maybe they knew what was coming. Two dozen live turkeys bound for Thanksgiving tables fell off a truck Friday on the New Jersey Turnpike, briefly snarling traffic near Newark Liberty International Airport.
"I think we should be investigating this as an escape attempt," said Joseph Orlando, a spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
The two crates fell as a truck was leaving the highway, and a toll booth supervisor who spotted them contacted authorities. The birds, which survived the fall, will presumably be returned to the trucker - if the driver notices they're missing, Orlando said.
The spill was only the latest bizarre animal incident on the highway in recent years. Last November, a tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of frozen chickens struck a truck carrying sheep in East Windsor, killing 22 of the animals.
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Yes, I heard about this on the radio tonight and told a co-worker it did remind me of that classic WKRP in Cincinnati episode.
---“It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!”
One of my husband's friends was on the turnpike when this happened. She was driving along like any other day when suddenly she came across a flock of live chickens on the road. Chickens were everywhere, she said, some were dead but others were still alive and jumped on her car. She was delayed for quite awhile due to the accident and was very late for work. When she got to work she apologized for being late and explained what had happened. No one believed her and everyone thought she was either making up a story because she overslept or that she was high. All day long her co-workers would cluck when they walked past her desk to mock her silly story. Vindication came later that evening when the chicken accident made the local news.
Avian-American freedom fighters gather to discuss pre-Thanksgiving rebellion
damn, anyone know how to post an image?
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