Terror turkey no urban myth
A WILD turkey has been attacking walkers, joggers and bikers on a trail in Washington DC, according to Huffington Post.
Several people have reported being chased, slammed into, clawed and pecked in encounters with the big bird on the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail.
The turkey made for musician DeDe Folarin last month as he rode his bike through the area.
“He jumped in the air and almost clawed my face,” says Folarin. “He kind of knocked me off the bike and literally chased me around for like five minutes.”
When the turkey took off after another biker, Folarin recorded the confrontation on his cellphone – then chased the bird off with a stick when the woman under attack called for help.
“There is an element of humour to it,” says wildlife biologist Dan Rauch, who is trying to catch the turkey. “There’s a terror turkey stalking a river trail. If I hadn’t seen the videos myself, I would have thought it was an urban myth.”
Slugfest
WHY do I feel a sense of recoil and unease at Irish boxing lass Katie Taylor and Puerto Rican Amanda Serrano slugging it out for round after round at Madison Square Garden in New York, the same place where Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali slugged it out in the 1970s?
Why do I find it disturbing as an attractive blonde sports gal on Sky News matter of factly describes the slugfest where two women whacked the blazes out of each other for round after round.
She describes it as if this were simply a wonderful boxing match where Katie retained her world lightweight title, nothing more.
They got a standing ovation from the crowd after the fight.
Then the words of Amanda after they’d embraced: “Women can sell, women can fight and we put on a hell of a show.”
Is it not strangely disturbing? Yet I’ve absolutely nothing against female mud wrestling.
Rolling road hog
THE road hogs of Arizona, in the US, are getting out of hand.
A javelina – a wild desert pig – took a drive in an empty car it entered looking for food, according to Associated Press.
It happened in the small town of Cornville where the hatchback had been left open overnight.
The javelina jumped in, the hatch closed and the pig was trapped.
It panicked, ripping off a portion of the dashboard and damaging a door in its attempt to escape.
Then it bumped the gearstick, the car went into neutral and away they rolled.
The car eventually came to rest in the roadway.
The sheriff’s deputies were called, they opened the hatch and out flew an angry and frightened javelina pig, to disappear into the desert.
And that’s the end for now of the excitement in Cornville.
Tailpiece
FROM a US boxing academy: “Women’s boxing will never be a success. A woman couldn’t put on gloves without matching shoes and handbag.”
Last word
THE opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. | FRAN LEBOWITZ