‘Nightmare.’ Tennessee hunter bags turkey, but there’s a disgusting surprise inside it

Miami Herald ^ | 18 May 2021 | MITCHELL WILLETTS

[DUMBGRUNT]

Turkey season in Tennessee ended on a repulsive note for one unlucky hunter.

Inside it’s crop were dozens of cicadas, dead but completely intact, their beady red eyes staring out from the bird.

Don’t let anything go to waste, one commenter suggested: “Smoked Turkey breast and chocolate covered cicadas for dessert.”

“Cicadas, it’s what’s for dinner!” wrote another.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Brood X is on the radar and we have the snow shovels ready.

My son-in-law was out for turkeys but only saw one. No turkey, no cicadas.

[logi_cal869]

I suppose their readers expect that turkeys should be vegetarians.

/s

Clickbait closes with the following:

“Turkeys that survived the hunting season should have plenty to eat.”

[BlackAdderess]

Silly people, birds eating cicadas should help preserve some fruit crops from birdy predation.

[Trump20162020]

[Mr. K]

What did he think they ate?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Kind of my thought, too. Did he expect to find the bird’s crop filled with watercress sandwiches and petit fours?

[lowbridge]

“Did he expect to find the bird’s crop filled with watercress sandwiches and petit fours?”

Those are the New York turkeys.

[Cold Heart]

From the title I expected something more like kittens.

[Scrambler Bob]

Kind of my thought, too. Did he expect to find the bird’s crop filled with watercress sandwiches and petit fours?
= = =

Or Foie Gras?

[Joe 6-pack]

A bird eating insects is newsworthy?

[webheart]

People will post just about anything to get attention.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”A bird eating insects is newsworthy?”

Newsworthy?
NO.

General/Chat worthy?
Yes.

A bit of fun in a sea of fake news.

[butlerweave]

I caught a nice fat Trout and inside were a family of Shrews

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Or Foie Gras?”

You may have to go to France for that!

Totally illegal in NYC!

[VastRWCon]

“I caught a nice fat Trout and inside were a family of Shrews”

I caught a Jack that had a lure attached to it.

[logi_cal869]

I expected a body part.

[”Bobbit”]

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”a nice fat Trout and inside were a family of Shrews”

Pygmy shrews or common shrews?

They are like a mini wolverine!

[dainbramaged]

I caught a 335 pound halibut and her belly contained a 10 lb. cod, two dungeness crabs, a small salmon and a bunch of crushed cockle clams. Had to shoot her with a .22 to get her on board without wrecking the boat. This was commercial, not sport.
Being out west I've never seen or heard a cicada.

[MomwithHope]

Wow that sounds like a great seafood buffet inside that halibut!

[DUMBGRUNT]

I have seen them like this, where the wind sweeps them into the corners.