The Celebrated Marauding Turkeys of Marin County
I'M IN UR WATERSHED, ATTACKING UR PORSCHES. This colorful Tom was polite as could be when we saw him eating an apple core aside East Ridgecrest Boulevard in Mount Tamalpais State Park near Captain B.J. Honeycutt's Mill Valley.
Oh noes! "Libidinous" wild turkeys are raising all kinds of hell in bucolic Marin County. That's something to think about on this long holiday weekend. Read all about it, after the jump.
When these birds aren't flying through windows at freeway speeds they're causing blackouts on the west si-iide.
They're attacking BMW's and Volvo wagons, but these critters are also partial to the bling bling of those steamrollers from Mannheim - Mercedes Benzeses. Could it be that the "females in particular like to look at their reflections"? They're just like people! What's that, it's actually the males that like to stare at themselves? They're just like people!
(Is Marin a target-rich environment for luxury cars? Appears to be the case.)
Anywho, read about this harmful new menace in the Pacific Sun and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light. Noble bird or destroyer of the environment -- you make the call.