[barend]

Turkeys try for fast train out of Jersey
2 hours, 5 minutes ago

RAMSEY, N.J. - Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman for the NJ Transit said train officials reported a dozen or so wild turkeys waiting on a station platform in Ramsey, about 20 miles northwest of New York City, on Wednesday afternoon. The line travels to Suffern, N.Y.

"For a moment, it looked like the turkeys were waiting for the next outbound train," said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for NJ Transit. "Clearly, they're trying to catch a train and escape their fate."

Transit workers followed the bird's movements on surveillance cameras. "I have no idea how they got there," Stessel said.

A Ramsey police dispatcher said the department had received three calls about the traveling turkeys who also were blamed for causing morning rush hour traffic problems on a roadway.

"From time to time, I've heard calls that there are turkeys on the loose," said Erik Endress, president of the Ramsey Rescue Squad, a volunteer group. "Maybe they're trying to make a break."

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Bears come knocking on doors and now this...

i smell a kids film for the holidays.

[Deepsycher]

Yes what is their fate? Slaughter?

I think they should have left the turkeys to their course to film what they were up to.

[Gobbler]

Nah, catch 'em, kill 'em, grill 'em, otherwise they might travel through some desert for fourty years, until one of them climbs up a hill and comes down with two stone panels with rules written on them, and then they're gonna kill us all in the name of the great...

... uhh... ...

... ho~hum. Now this is where it's starting to get interesting, isn't it?

They're gonna kill you all in the name of the great GOBBLER!

Alrighty, I've changed my mind. Go, turkeys, go! w00t!

This post has been edited by Gobbler: 24 November 2006 - 03:17 AM

[Jane Sherwood]

Yes what is their fate? Slaughter?

Yup. Every year we Americans have a ritual sacrifice (with pie) of turkey to remember the day our ancestors sat down and had a great big peaceful meal with this country's original native race right before stealing their land, committing genocide, and destroying their culture.

Many of us also have to put up with relatives we normally never see and can't stand, get drunk, and watch a bunch of stupid giant inflated cartoon characters rampaging down the streets of New York.

But yeah, it's mainly about eating turkey.

[David-kyo]

Anyone ever seen that South Park episode with the gene-manipulated berserking turkeys on Thanksgiving Day in it? This article gave me a slight Deja Vu feeling...

[barend]

Nah, catch 'em, kill 'em, grill 'em, otherwise they might travel through some desert for fourty years, until one of them climbs up a hill and comes down with two stone panels with rules written on them, and then they're gonna kill us all in the name of the great...

... uhh... ...

... ho~hum. Now this is where it's starting to get interesting, isn't it?

They're gonna kill you all in the name of the great GOBBLER!

Alrighty, I've changed my mind. Go, turkeys, go! w00t!

as i recall... that won't happen until the year 9595


19...


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9595

[Gobbler]

*shakes fist*

Curse you, Zager & Evans! Curse you and your bloody Microsoft-esque ETA-Algorithm!

And I was so close.

[Deepsycher]

Unlucky we had a chance to write ten hypocritical commandments for ourselves and like how they were in a food chain we now belong to a work chain. I think either they exist in a parallel food chain with other livestock mainly for humans with a thin line for predators and escape routes or in a place with no humans but animals which can yield a very long food chain.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 26 November 2006 - 06:43 PM