Five arrested in turkey-hurling incident

[NoPasaran]

Nov. 19, 2004 | RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) -- Five teenagers were arrested in the hurling of a frozen turkey that smashed through a motorist's windshield, critically injuring her.

Police said Ryan Cushing, 18, threw the turkey from a car he and the other teens were riding in Saturday. It smashed through the car window of a 44-year-old woman who was driving in the other direction. She was in critical condition at Stony Brook University Hospital.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/11/19/turkey/index.html

[TaleWgnDg]

1. You don't suppose it was a kind of "repressed aggression" regarding

this past presidential election, do you? heh. Those damn kids, huh?

Uuummmmm, this is sarcasm for those who aren't familiar w/ me. :hi:

edited to correct my typewriter's horrendous spelling.

[rocktivity]

2. Well, of course they hurled it hard enough to break a windshield

It WAS a bit undercooked!

:crazy:
rocknation

[Renew Deal]

3. I live on LI, but not near where this happened.

A couple days before Halloween, an egg comes flying at my car from a car going in the opposite direction. Ironically enough, it hit the grill. No damage.

[NoPasaran]

4. Is food hurling some kind of LI thing?

[tavalon]

5. You know

the headline of your message is hilarious. The story horrifying.

[NoPasaran]

6. I think it's a yin and yang kind of thing n/t

[KG]

7. god as my witness, i thought frozen turkeys could fly!

[Nihil]

8. I thought they'd just eaten too much turkey ...

:puke:

[progmom]

9. how dare you make light of this situation!!!!

Now you have me feeling all guilty about laughing so hard I nearly peed my pants!!!

[yellowcanine]

13. "WKRP Cincinnati" episode - when the radio station did a promotion

where they threw live thanksgiving turkeys out of a helicopter at a shopping mall. Les describing it later - priceless. Suffice it to say that domestic turkeys can't fly, at least not when tossed out of a helicopter.

[welshTerrier2]

16. "as god is my witness, i thought turkeys could fly"

one of the real classic episodes in tv sitcom history ...



here's a link to a nice write-up on the show with some good pictures ...

[Not_Giving_Up]

10. What's worse than a frozen turkey coming at you?

A year or so ago in Houston, some teens thought it was just too funny to stand on freeway overpasses and drop giant chunks of concrete onto the cars below. I remember that they nailed a trucker one night, a couple of little old ladies, and one or two more before they were caught.

Also, I believe it was in Freeport, there was a boat that jumped up out of the water and landed on a car going down the road. How'd you like to call your insurance company on that one? "Yes, I was hit by a boat."

[NoPasaran]

12. A frozen turkey not coming at you---Oscar Wilde

[China_cat]

15. Even better

Also, I believe it was in Freeport, there was a boat that jumped up out of the water and landed on a car going down the road. How'd you like to call your insurance company on that one? "Yes, I was hit by a boat."

When I was out on the road with the carnival in one spot we had ostrich races...guys sitting on sulkies guiding these big birds with brooms held next to their heads. (You can't touch the ostrich with the broom, though, because if you do the bird will sit down. From 60 mph to nothing in about a nanosecond hurts anything in the sulky which tends to keep moving.) At the end of the course are catchers who grab the birds and pop a hood over their heads.

One day, the races were going on and, on the other side of the track, cars were pulling in to park. One ostrich got by the catcher, ran over a fairly new Cadillac and did quite a bit of damage.

Now that conversation with an insurance agent I would have loved to have heard.

[Liberal Classic]

11. As God as my witness

I thought turkeys could fly!

[frylock]

14. ohhhhhhh, the humanity..

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