A truckload of live turkeys fell off their truck in New Jersey on Friday in what a spokesman for the Jersey Turnpike Authority jokingly dubbed an "escape attempt."
This apparently is not the only animal-related traffic incident in recent turnpike memory. The article notes that last year, a tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of frozen chickens collided with a truck carrying sheep, killing twenty of the animals (the sheep, not the chickens).
It's interesting that these turkeys got off the turnpike a week before Thanksgiving, but I'm sure that's just coincidence.
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every now and then, in the southern california traffic reports, i would hear stories about how there were chickens wandering in the carpool lane.
chickens - they're environmentalists, shouldn't you be?
bnazshm!
Welcome back, Michael. We've missed your contributions to the ditch.
Modern turkeys being what they are -- all breast, no brain -- I can't imagine that those birds would have survived for more than a few minutes in the wild.
I've traveled the NJ Tpk many, many times. I'll bet those turkeys just got fed up with the tolls every 10 miles.
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