Saw the darndest thing yesterday on my excursion to Cincinnati. While heading north on I65 in Northern KY in a low spot between pine covered hills on the highway I see something that is still as clear in my mind as the instant it happened. I'm in the passing lane and a semi is in the right lane just ahead of me. I look up and see a dark figure come off the hill to my left and soar towards the interstate. It is dropping altitude and I start thinking that crazy bird looks like he's on a collision course with a truck but maybe it's just my perspective. Nope. In a surreal millisecond the turkey glided right into the air foil of the semi just barely above the windshield. A load thud was heard (windows up radio on) and there was an explosion of feathers, as if a pillow fight broke out, followed by bone shrapnel flying all over the interstate and raining down on my Jeep. Closing velocities must have been near 100 mph. I wasn't able to see what happened to all of the bird but the chunks that flung to my side of the interstate were small and mostly void of flesh. I suspect not so much as a drum stick survived in tact. Not even seeing a deer jump in front of a moving car could equal the bizarre nature of this airial assault. I doubt that turkey ever felt a thing or knew he was doing advancing turkey genetics by removing himself from the gene pool.
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