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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 07:46 PM
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New York City's Grateful Turkeys
The Ocean Breeze community in New York City has flocks of turkeys walking around its streets. It's illegal to hunt them, and they can be annoying. Opponents describe them as "terrifying" and want the city to get rid of them. However, like Canada geese, all you can do is move them from place to place.

One slice of Staten Island isn’t giving thanks for its turkey this holiday season because the wild fowl are rampaging across the neighborhood.

The menacing flock is ruffling feathers in Ocean Breeze by tying up traffic, covering yards with excrement - even trapping one terrified woman in her car.

“It was straight out of ‘Cujo,’” said dental assistant Gina Guaragno, 23. “I’m sitting in my car Facebooking on my phone when turkeys jumped on my windshield.

“I screamed like I was being murdered. They just kept looking at me like it was their car. I felt trapped. I was so scared.” …


http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/blog/Default.aspx?id=481



Free as a bird in New York City.

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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 07:48 PM
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1. if they come on your property you should be able to do something about them nt
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 08:54 PM
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4. Yeah, that's not "hunting" them...
:evilgrin:
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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 08:02 PM
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3. Grateful Turkey
Michael Bloomberg is more like another animal you can think of.



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