Beware of Turkey Crossing
Turkey! Oh turrrrnnkeeeeeey….
By Peggy Kiefer-Steed
Beware of Turkey
Crossing! Grove’s downtown turkey is back to causing a lot of commotion. He is
accused of blocking traffic downtown and attacking cars on Leisure.
Witnesses say he gets in
the middle of the road and won’t move.
Elusive wild downtown turkey. Photo by Peggy Steed |
Local authorities are
worried he will either cause an accident or be killed. He follows them around
sometimes and is attracted to the police and fire horns but the elusive turkey
only lets them come about 6 feet from him and off he goes into the shelter of
the park.
He causes people to be
late for work and students to be late for school.
Rumors are he tried to
attack someone at McDonald's, but I can’t confirm that. I think he just wanted
some French fries.
What’s wrong with having
a downtown mascot? A neighborhood on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco has
approximately 200 parrots living in a park they have moved to from South
America. They have their own fan club and
are written about in many travel guides.
Maybe
we need to add the turkey to one of the many exciting things to do and see at
Grand Lake.
We have
Christmas the albino doe wandering with her herd of cattle, and many
neighborhood families of fox and groundhogs.
Thanks
to our cell phones with decent cameras and the many photographers that call
Grand Lake home, we see pet wild animals all over social media.
One of
the coolest this year was the birth of an eagle photographed by several and
posted on social media.
And now
the downtown turkey is back to his shenanigans. I wish he would just hang out
and be a good mascot, but I don’t think he is going to start behaving anytime
soon, so, please be careful when traveling through town, especially if you are
near McDonald’s where he seems to hang out most.
Peggy
peggykief@gmail.com
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