Wild Turkey Attacks Home on Thanksgiving

This holiday turkey was a home wrecker

On Thanksgiving morning the gobbler smashed through a dining-room window in Bloomington, interrupting dinner preparations.

Jim Adams, Star Tribune

Guess who dropped in for Thanksgiving at the Cobbs' house in Bloomington?

A wild turkey, busting through the dining-room picture window.

"It's terrible. My house is a disaster!" Sandy Cobbs said Friday, amid window glass littered on a bloody carpet in her dining room. "Everybody thinks it's funny, but it's not. I just couldn't believe it was Thanksgiving and there was a live turkey in my house."

Once might be funny, she said, but this was her second holiday feathered fiasco.

The first turkey attack came on Christmas Day 2004, confirmed Bloomington police Sgt. Mike Roepke. Sandy and Bill Cobbs were at their daughter's home that day and the neighbors called after seeing a hole in the same dining room window about 16 feet above the ground.

On Thursday, Sandy was in her kitchen preparing sweet potatoes and vegetables to bring to her sister's when she heard a thunderous crash.

"At first I thought my buffet fell over. It was so loud and kept crashing," she said. "I went in there and said, 'Not again. Not again.' He was huge -- two or three feet tall." It looked like the big bird had landed on her now scratched-up glass dining-room table and flopped to the floor.

Her husband was out walking their two little dogs, and Sandy went looking for him.

"I ran out the door. I grabbed the car and started driving to find my husband. I found him and jumped out and said, 'I'll take the dogs. You go home. There's a turkey in the house.' "

Bill called the police on his cell phone as he drove. When he tried to hustle the feathered intruder back to nature, it ricocheted off some back-wall windows and then retreated to a big pot of orchids until police arrived. Several officers gradually herded the bloody bird out the open deck doors.

The Cobbs live near the Hyland Hills ski area and see wild turkeys strut by nearly every day. Sandy speculated that the turkeys were attracted by the reflection of trees in the window.

The last time around, the officers had to kill the turkey, Roepke said.

That turkey mishap cost the Cobbs' insurance company nearly $10,000 to make repairs and replace carpeting, windows and curtains, Sandy Cobbs said.

"My insurance company doesn't think it's funny," she said. "I don't know if I can turn in another claim."

The turkey-tale moral? She said she had none, "except that on the holidays, I am leaving town."



What a "FOWL" thing to have happen.

It seems that this side of the board has gone to the birds (or pigs or cows or alligators!)

Oh go "Stuff It" why don't ya!

...or "get stuffed".

I think it's funny actually. Been a nice few light threads. What's wrong with that?

Some may think these threads are real Turkeys.
But for those of us bird brains that enjoy bad puns, well we gobble these things up!

...and another hat trick from Amus!

I just can't swallow one more bit of this stuff!

That's because I'm robbin all the low hanging fruit.


Good Grief!
I finally found something I'm good at, and it's this?

And to think, I used to hold you in such high regard Amus. This thread is making me strangely sleepy...

I think it's funny actually. Been a nice few light threads. What's wrong with that?

I wasn't complaining, just adding to the puns!

I think it's hilarious!

Warner,

FWIW, Of the few things I miss about life on the 7th floor, you and your hilarious verbal outbursts are up at the top of the list!

Warner can easily lift (or drop) anyone out of a fowl mood no matter what floor he's on!

It's hard to soar with the Eagle's when you hang out with a bunch of flocking "Turkey's".

And as we learned from Les Nessman, "Turkeys cannot fly"

"I love Thanksgiving turkey... it's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sorry to disappoint Arnold!

"Turkey breeding has caused turkey breasts to grow so large that the turkeys fall over."

http://www.eons.com/body/feature/nutrition/juicy-turkey-facts/9469

Bit of trivia, Be Franklin wanted the Turkey to be the national symbol rather than the Eagle.

What did the turkey say before it was roasted?

Boy! I'm stuffed!

What did the turkey say before it was roasted?

"I thought Dean Martin was dead."

There is a fowl odor in here!

Well ya know it is the "Skunk" what smell's his her own spray first! Ha

Oooops, wrong animal....my bad.

Edit Add:
Oh Wait, maybe that stink is your fantasy football team!!!!! HAhahahhaaaaa

I guess your "Kittens" quit spraying when they all got nuetered! Wait, maybe it's your litter box! HA!

HA. I'm gonna sack that "HEN" you call a QB. What a bunch of turkeys you got. If they'd quit porking out before the game maybe they would not lay there like fatted cow's. This week will be like leading the lambs to the slaughterhouse so knit a sock then stuff it. Mutton's gonna stop me now! HAHAHhahahahahhhaaa

Ahem,

I'm putting us back on topic here with a Turkey Quiz!

http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_286/thanksgiving_myths_quiz.html

(Then I'm gonna kick DT's gobblers in the tailfeathers!)

No use Hen-Pecking me, You lost big time!

Oh wattle me! I still have more points!

Uhm, hey buzzard beak, you better check that again.

Ooops!

LOL.

All of the smack talk and rabble rousing aside this has been fun. I enjoyed this.