Mapleleaf was lucky

“She was only attacked by a dead turkey.

Turkey Terrorizes State Troopers

Friday, February 25, 2005


It was a brief but glorious run along an Ohio highway for one ornery turkey.

On Feb. 11, a state trooper pulled over a pickup truck on a rural stretch of road in Hancock County, only to be confronted by a large male turkey that walked out of a field.

Dashboard video shows the angry avian pecking at the officer and chasing him back to his patrol car, reports WCMH-TV of Columbus.

"That's a big bird," his partner says, laughing. "I think he likes you."

Two days later, a driver called to say that the big bad bird had cornered him in his SUV.

Another officer was sent out to investigate — and was also chased back into his car. That dashboard video shows the harassed driver taking pictures.

The testy turkey then jumped on the police car, pecked at the hood and sat down for 20 minutes, all while the terrified trooper was trapped inside.


Finally, someone from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (search) Division of Wildlife came by to free the humans from the feathered menace.

Alas, the plucky pecker was put down after five days in captivity, several days before a local woman called to say her pet turkey "Wild Thing" had gone missing, reports the Toledo Blade.


First story”

“LMFBO


Oh man that video is just to funny
poor bird.


DAMN TURKEYS”

“Yeah, I saw that video on TV. I'd have shot the damn thing.”

“If that happened in upstate NY, someone would have been having a turkey dinner that night.”

“The streaming video is blocked. I can't check this one out...”

“hold down your shift at the same time”

“sounds kinky!”

“That turkey had nothing on a goose.”

“Wild turkeys are strange critters. I was driving through the park to work one day and traffic was stopped up ahead. A cop car was stopped going the other way, and the cop walked out of the woods, got in the car and drove off. The line of traffic started up, and when I got to where the cop car had been, a turkey walked out of the woods and across the road. I stopped, and the turkey walked in front of my car. I slowly started going forward, and then I looked in the rearview mirror. The turkey had sat down in the road right next to my car. It just sat there as drivers gingerly drove around it. Nothing was moving it - not a line of traffic and not a cop.”

“Slovenian migrant Ivanka Perko died in hospital last week in bizarre circumstances - she suffered complications after she dropped a banana on her leg.
Comical to the end, the 73-year-old old quipped to friends and family while on her deathbed: "I can't believe after all this time it was a bloody banana that killed me."

A family friend told The Saturday Daily Telegraph yesterday that Ms Perko - who was treasured by her Blue Mountains community - had been ill for several months with a condition that made her skin delicate and fine.

"She had tried to open a banana and dropped it," the friend said. "The pointy end scraped down her leg and she died from complications."

Even her death notice revealed her strange demise, killed by a falling banana.

Friends said it was seen as an appropriate end to a unique and fruitful life.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17882109-1242,00.html”

“This does sound like something our beloved Mapleleaf would do later in life. ;-)”

“If this old gal was unique and fruitful is Maple unique and turkish??”

“I was lucky I didnt get banned perm!

leason learned? to email the sarges of the world to "STFU" instead of posting it on TT.”

“That's it.....take a back door approach to slamming Sarge.

Matt will surely notice you learned a lesson during time out.

;-)”

“D. O. R. K.”

“Welcome back!!!!

I guess our whinning about letting you come back worked! (and the $10 I sent matt as well) :0”

“Alright!!

Sacco paid us all to put up a lot of fuss.”

““Alright!!

Sacco paid us all to put up a lot of fuss.”
MarkO
10:05:22 AM
6/28/06

Too bad he used rubber checks.”

“let's all go hiking!

welcome back Mapes, we missed ya!”

“Doh, that dirty rat!!”

“you were gone?”

“welcome back mapes...now regale us with one of your wonderful tails of menagerie

SC is cheap, i sent $10.50”

“cheaphiker is a floozie.”

“I hate to say "i told you so" :D”

“I don't think anyone's ever said STFU to me.”

“But they may have thought it once or twice.”

“welcome back mapleleaf...

and welcome to the "banned for a short time" club...”

“"I hate to say "i told you so" :D”
Gem
11:29:51 AM
6/28/06

No ya don't!”

“Yay!”

“WELCOME BACK MAPLE!! Does your return mean Sarge is soon to follow? All of TT wonders.”

“i wouldve thought mapes time-out would have been twice as long as s-rge's, for her prison break”

“mapleleaf=jello fog!”

“Mapleleaf= Dutches Of Road Kill aka-DORK”

“Mapleleaf= Dutches Of Road Kill aka-DORK”
lost soul
7:32:30 PM
6/28/06


LMFAO now that is funny!”

“town dog = jello fog”

“oh, and welcome back tutle hater!”

“Good to have ya back.

I like a woman who isn't afraid to walk on the wild side ;-)”

“wtf is a tutle?”

“A turtle with a harelip.”

“tittle?”

“why you guys gotta come back posting threads about the incident..your just gonna get it start it again...ignore it all and move forward, or my guess the hammer drops again shortly”

“mapleleaf rocks my world”

“Shut Up!!”

“you forgot the F part

LOL”

“Thank you, Duchess!!
last edited: 6/30/06 6:32:07 AM”

“tuttle hater? Don't you like American Choppers? The dad tuttle is a bit of an ass.”

“The dad tuttle is a bit of an ass.”
dayhiker
8:48:45 AM
7/01/06


LMAO”

“Mikey is my favorite tuttle.”