Posted on 10/07/2014 9:33:45 PM PDT by rey
A turkey on Highway 1 caused a Canadian motorcycle rider to crash sometime early Monday, and the man told investigators he then walked to a coastal bluff and jumped off, naked.
The 27-year-old Alberta man had shed his clothing as he walked and was found, nude and seriously injured, on rocks about 40 feet below a coastal bluff in Salt Point State Park.
The CHP is investigating the man’s crash and a Sonoma County sheriff’s investigator is looking into what happened afterward, including whether he was trying to die or hurt himself or acted because of his injuries, said CHP spokesman Officer Jon Sloat. The man wasn’t identified as his mental health was being evaluated.
The investigators Tuesday afternoon interviewed the hospitalized man, who has moderate injuries including a head wound.
He was headed south, bound for South America for a job, he told investigators. The turkey reportedly appeared while he was riding on the coast highway near Kruse Ranch Road.
The man initially told some rescuers he thought he’d crashed as early as about midnight Sunday and that he didn’t remember anything between riding on the highway and then finding himself on the rocks, said Tim Murphy, supervising state parks lifeguard.
At about 5 a.m., a driver spotted a downed motorcycle on the side of the highway and some riding gear. Without cell service, the driver drove further south, calling to alert authorities as they approached the Russian River.
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I’ve literally watched a Turkey fly into a moving motorcycle and take the rider right out of the seat. Having been hit in the forehead with a june bug while doing about 40, I wouldn’t want to be the rider catching a 10-20 pound turkey in the face. No way could you stay up...and even if the turkey was suicidal enough to stay on the ground while a motorcycle was coming at it, hitting it would cause a lot of riders to dump the bike.
bttt
DANG!
A turkey I had attacked school buses. He knew the schedule and would lie in wait.
I had a peacock take me right off of the yard tractor. They fly pretty good, can’t steer worth a crap!
“If you want to be a bird....”
“swerved to avoid turkey”
Biden’s in Canada, now?
If I see a turkey on a motorcycle, I'm dang sure going to avoid it.
I thought someone saw him “choking his chicken” while riding nude on his bike. Oh, excuse me, it was “chocking his turkey.”
Take your mind off your business and bad things can happen.
Did he have a rider on the back of that bike?
K. I’ll bite:
So why did the Turkey cross the road? [sic]
I’m reminded of a cartoon I saw once where a group of squirrels or something was on the side of the road and they were having one race across the road, ranking the mayhem they caused.
In all seriousness, head injuries are no laughing matter. People are unpredictable when exposed to g-forces on the head, with or without external evidence of injury. This is a perfect example. He folded his clothes during his ‘blackout’ episode, for pete’s sake. Wild that he survived the fall off a 40ft cliff with minor injuries. Lucky guy. (seriousness ‘off)
Turkey must’ve gone back into the brush to wait for the crowd to clear and for the next motorcyclist...(wild turkey escapades)
....must be crazy....
....by motorbike all the way from Canada to somewhere in South America for a "job"
I thought I was the only person who had done this. That damn turkey is trying to kill someone!!!
It happened to me 6 months ago.
But the job pays $8.75/hour.
you don’t see motorcyclist, nude and turkey in the same sentence everyday.
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