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15lb Wild Turkey Dies After Crashing Through Restaurant Window…on Thanksgiving
- Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:59pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — A wild turkey smashed through a plate glass window at an empty western Pennsylvania restaurant and ended up where millions of its fellow gobblers did on Thanksgiving: a dining room.
Penn Hills police Officer Bernard Sestili tells the WTAE-TV the feathered fowl didn‘t survive impact when it barreled into the dining room of the Eat’n Park in Penn Hills on Thursday afternoon. The restaurant was closed at the time.
Sestili says he responded when the building’s alarm went off.
He suspects the turkey may have been roosting in a nearby tree when it “got up this morning and went for his morning flight and flew into the window.”
Penn Hills is about 10 miles outside Pittsburgh.
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Comments (52)
RichEG
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:52amAnybody check to see if it was a Butterball? I’m just say-in ….
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:22amHAHAHAHA good one…
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:54pm… damn destructive turkeys … I say ‘kill ’em all!!’
Report Post »Caleb Gordon
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:47amWhat’s really sad is that some animal rights waco will REALLY think that this a turkey attempting to take revenge for Thanksgiving. LOL!!!
Report Post »lottcha
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:33amHe is one of the 99%
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:13amwhen the turkey’s fell from the helicopter and smashed on the side walk Les Nessman said ….as god as my witness i thought turkey’s could fly … oh the humanity
WKRP
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:02pmHA! I remember that! Oh No! Does that make me old?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:10amHe flew right by USDA inspection. That turkey does not know the trouble he is in now…It’s a lot worse than being eaten.
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:07amas god as my witness i thought turkey’s could fly …..
les nessman WKRP
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 5:57amAnd the head waiter, upon seeing this, exclaimed “who ordered the really,really fresh turkey?”
Report Post »Lee McAbee
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 5:30amFinally I’ve seen it all. The turkeys are fighting back with Kamakazi runs on restaurants.
Report Post »10mmGlockuser
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:13amHe was just trying to get in the restaurant early he knew that a lot of his family was there….
Report Post »10mmGlockuser
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:11amTURKEY….under-glass
Report Post »idarusskie
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:37amI’ll bet someone chased it there.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:05amWindex ?
Report Post »Bakko Bomma
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:59amObviously a Palestinian turkey.
Report Post »beckisnutsisnuts
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 3:10pmLol
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:35amYou know, you just never know.
Report Post »smylok
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:27pmApparently, the turkey DID’NT know.
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:29amI really hope someone’s going to eat that thing.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:26amThat’s nothing. We‘ve had a jackass crashing at the White House since ’09.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:07amlol
Report Post »JRook
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:33pmPerhaps, but only cause the turkey left in 2008.
Report Post »smylok
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:29pmYou’re both right.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:49amMust have been depressed because he couldn’t find a job and saw a news article on the blaze about halal turkeys and was going for an interview they buttered him up with an invatation to dinner but canned him his first day on the job.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:06amYour thought gave me another twisted idea Ambush. Even Muslim Turkeys commit suicide. Jeeze. lol
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:02amI knew i recognized that sound, the muslim females make it alot it’s their imatation of a turkey gobble .I would almost bet he was from turkey and went out hollerin alah ukan eatbar.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:13amOWS turkey protesting Thanksgiving dies as a result of vandalizing restaurant.
Report Post »Very sad………….
garyM
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:51pmI wonder which turkey that was, Peace or Justice, they must have been loaded down with guilt over being pardoned by Obama! It could have been an accident because being around Obama they probably picked up Obama’s ego and they were flying by the window looking at their own reflection and crashed!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:39pmSuicide terrorists turkeys…….someone call Homeland Security.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:22amOK Blazers, you got your halal turkey right there.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:29pmNow all the Turkeys will demand that windows be removed.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:28pmI remember as a kid, my dad had various birds, turkey caged above a duck. After one thanksgiving the turkey was no longer there. Then we observed the duck mimicking turkey gobbles.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:34pmIts better than going thru a window after drinking wild turkey…..But not me , it was a friend….; ))
Report Post »Rick300
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:24pmIt could have been suicide! If it was PETA might want to set up counseling sessions for all wild turkey groups!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:18pmIronic — That’s not FDA/USDA/FSIS/NCSL Approved!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:19amYou forgot Halal approved!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:08pmGreat, now we will have more screaming from HSA Napoletano the little Napoleano about there being a band of “turkey terrorists (unfrozen)” hitting the countries restraunts, and they must be screened by the TSA.
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