Posted on 04/29/2005 3:17:00 PM PDT by Shermy
WOBURN, MA -- A wild turkey is causing problems for almost all the residents of a Woburn, Massachusetts neighborhood, but one woman is accepting him with open arms.
"Tom" turkey, who appears to weigh in at about 20 pounds, has been so fearsome that some residents are afraid to leave their homes.
Police have tried to run "Tom" off, but the turkey continues to return.
Sharyn Newell, however, has befriended the bird and trained him to climb up her back and onto her head.
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"Sharyn Newell, however, has befriended the bird and trained him to climb up her back and onto her head."
WHY??
She looks like michael moore's mom.
She didn't have to do too much "training." Looks to me like the turkey is mounting her. Blech!
I recommend to feed him first
Oh, why'd you have to go and say that !? Now it's worse!
One of Ohio's turkeys tried that with me this morning... I shot it. No, really, it was at about 25 yards. One shot. One kill. Gotta love turkey hunting!!!
I wonder how many times she's had a fresh stinky one (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) in her hair?
Bleck.
Venus: Les! Are you okay?
Les: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered, but some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Andy: Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les: I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!
Mr Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Well, we recently (up till a month ago) had a rogue rooster that was mounting our female ducks and attacking Hub when he'd get home and get out of his pickup.
Hub wrung his neck, muttered "Damn pervert!"
Years ago, we had a rooster that would try to mount the turkey hens. The rooster picked a fight with the tom turkey, and the tom grabbed him by the head, flung him down, stomped on him and then sat on him.
A friend of mine saw the whole thing, called me and said, "Judy, your rooster was killed by the tom turkey." I went to see, and sure enough, he was still laying there, and looked dead.
I put some gloves on and went over to pick him up to throw him away, when the darn thing pecked at me! He lived, and was still not deterred from the turkey hens, though he never picked another fight with the tom.
Roosters are all perverts. I'm convinced all birds are and will pretty much bleep anything, anything at all.
That's why I say there so many antelope roaming the front range...because they taste terrible! There wouldn't be so many of 'em if they were turkeys would there?
most women already have :)
Bruce Vilanch had a hilarious t-shirt on once that said, "YOUR PROCTOLOGIST CALLED. HE FOUND YOUR HEAD."
Ahhh, the ole kickin' chicken. Damn damn good good.
hehe! :)
Famous story of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge walking the Rose Garden at the White House noticing the rooster was constantly busy, and when she asked the gardener about him, the gradener Said "that rooster can do it in excess of 100 times per day!" Mrs. Coolidge said "make sure Mr. Coolidge finds out about him". So when the gardener went to tell the Presdident about the rooster, Coolidge asked, "same hen every time?". The gardener said, "no different one every time". Coolidge replied " Make sure Mrs. Coolidge finds out about him".
We live in the Black Hills, about 10 miles south of Rapid City, SD. We have wild turkeys (about 60 to 75) that show up in our back yard twice a day. Every morning, I walk to the mailbox which is about 1/3 of a mile from our house. The same turkey has followed me every day for the past three years. I know it is the same one because "Chester" has a broken right leg. I find it rather amazing that he shows up the same time every morning to follow me. The dried corn in my pocket might have something to do with it. I'm surprised that he is still alive, with his handicap. We are having a bad mountain lion problem here......and he has survived them for some reason. The big cats seem to follow the turkeys and the deer.
Please put me on your Marburg/Ebola "ping" list. That frightens far more than the mountain lions.
Wow, another from my neck of the woods that imbibes...unfreakin believable!
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