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Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving
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Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet of N.Y. on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.
The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left — marching in single file — at about 1 p.m.
Suffolk County police were called because the turkeys created a traffic hazard while crossing a road. But the officers didn't have to intervene because the birds kept walking — and hadn't been seen or heard from since, residents said Friday.
Resident Joyce Logan said there was nopractical joke involved and the turkeys may have wandered into the Long Island neighborhood about 40 miles east of Manhattan from a nearby wooded area, where she had been hearing gobbles since summer.
Logan said the birds walked away in a straight line between her house and her neighbor's, and she went back inside to prepare a store-bought turkey dinner for her family.
Unlike some neighbors, Logan said, she never had thoughts of catching one of the turkeys in her yard and turning it into dinner.
"I can't eat something that I've met," she said.
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(Agencies)
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感恩節(jié)當(dāng)天,15只野火雞“大搖大擺地”闖進(jìn)美國(guó)紐約市郊的一個(gè)村莊,之后又“及時(shí)地”在晚飯前撤離了該地。
這群火雞于上周四早上出現(xiàn)在當(dāng)?shù)兀吮姸嗑用駠^,但到了下午一點(diǎn)鐘左右,它們又排著隊(duì)離開了此地。
據(jù)薩弗克縣居民上周五介紹,這群火雞過(guò)馬路時(shí)一度引發(fā)交通混亂,但由于它們一直在前進(jìn),(之后也未見蹤影,)所以聞?dòng)嵹s來(lái)的警察沒有采取任何干預(yù)措施。
當(dāng)?shù)鼐用駟桃两z?洛根說(shuō),這絕對(duì)不是惡作劇,這些火雞可能從附近的一個(gè)樹林一直“溜達(dá)”到了位于曼哈頓以東約40英里的長(zhǎng)島。洛根說(shuō),從今年夏天開始,她就經(jīng)常聽見從附近的樹林里傳出火雞“咕咕”叫的聲音。
洛根說(shuō),火雞們排成整齊的一隊(duì),從她家和鄰居家之間走過(guò),離開了小鎮(zhèn);之后,洛根又回去為全家準(zhǔn)備火雞大餐,不過(guò)火雞是從商店里買的。
洛根說(shuō),她與一些鄰居的想法不同,她從沒想過(guò)要從院子里抓一只火雞,把它變成盤中餐。
她說(shuō):“我不能把我見過(guò)的東西吃掉。”
(英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯)
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