Terrorist Turkey Terminates Traffic
In what we here at Blue Crab Boulevard believe was a dry run for the real takeover planned for - what else - Thanksgiving day, a turkey tied up traffic on the Triborough bridge in New York yesterday. Waving her deadly drumsticks of doom, the wily butterball eluded efforts by the hapless bridge police for 15 minutes.
Just ahead of Thanksgiving, a wild turkey ruffled feathers on the Triborough Bridge yesterday when she wandered onto the Manhattan toll plaza.
No one knew how the 10-pound female bird ended up on the bridge at 3:45 p.m., but Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials saw heron their video monitors and cried fowl.
The frightened turkey skittered back and forth across the plaza, evading capture and delaying traffic for 15 minutes, as six bridge officers chased her. A construction worker finally made the capture, and a bridge officer threw a blanket over the bird.
"Watching it unfold on our cameras, it seemed the only thing missing was someone playing 'Turkey in the Straw,'" said Triborough Bridge General Operations Manager Ray Bush.
Now besides the fact that the reporter arguably makes even worse puns than we do around here, they overlook the magnitude of what happened! This was a test of security and the Keystone Cops of the MTA failed and then made the situation even worse by releasing the turkey of terror without even questioning it! Just wait until New York is cut off from the world by the power poultry of the Animal Uprising™. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Now besides the fact that the reporter arguably makes even worse puns than we do around here, they overlook the magnitude of what happened! This was a test of security and the Keystone Cops of the MTA failed and then made the situation even worse by releasing the turkey of terror without even questioning it! Just wait until New York is cut off from the world by the power poultry of the Animal Uprising™. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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By BubbaB, Thursday, 16 November , 2006 @ 12:09 pm
You know, I find it ironic that Arlo hasn’t written any comments on the post about “turkeys”, don’t you, Gaius?
By Gaius, Thursday, 16 November , 2006 @ 12:10 pm
Not surprising, really. No canned talking point for this type of post.