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Someone hit a wild turkey with their car in front of my house and killed it. Luckily my sister was here and she and I got it off the side of the road and threw the carcass in our field. We didn't see who hit it.
Hopefully the scavenger critters will at least get a few meals out of it.
Too many of the people who drive on this road think they can drive 75, when the speed limit is 45.
lastlib
(23,605 posts)that they got a helluva dent in their grill that will cost beaucoup bucks to repair, to say nothing of the inconvenience.
Very sad. They are magnificent birds.
BlueKota
(2,110 posts)I agree too that they are magnificent.
soldierant
(7,147 posts)I hope they have a ridiculously high deductible.
erronis
(15,786 posts)But yes, people do drive too fast (not me!!!)
BlueKota
(2,110 posts)not mattering to the turkey.
Unfortunately,I think the speeding happens here because this road used to be rural, but then a lot of the farmers sold to developers. The people who move into those housing complexes even after all these years haven't figured out that when they drive past the still undeveloped fields, they need to slow down because chances are fairly high that some sort of wild animal is going to dart out in front of them at any time.
erronis
(15,786 posts)The change of rural areas where everyone really understood the underlying rules to these new mixed rural/developed areas always causes big problems.
I definitely saw that in Northern Virginia during the 80s/90s as the development scourge spread out across the DC environs. Plus these people tend to think of themselves as better than thou - entitled.
AllaN01Bear
(19,826 posts)BlueKota
(2,110 posts)soldierant
(7,147 posts)if it were low enough tosee and miss him/her. I don't know whether 45 would have done that, not knowing the road. But it might have on some roads.