I accept that poll taxes are illegal. Voting cannot be restricted to white males. Women have to be allowed to vote. Literacy tests are outlawed. However, I maintain that people who are incapable of dealing with wild turkeys are not smart enough to vote or procreate.
It seems every year about this time, a story makes the rounds about citizens cowering in their homes because of “mean” turkeys. Invariably these stories originate in New Jersey or Massachusetts. The same places that keep voting for a Kennedy or Booker. I rest my case.
If this happened in Texas, Texans would call it lunch.
I’d be willing to bet that good old boys back in the hills of Appalachia or further south would not be intimidated. Telling them they could not shoot in the city limits wouldn’t give them pause. Country boys in the south have been known to hunt wild pigs with just a knife.
They think it is fun to grab catfish bare handed. They would probably just go out and strangle turkeys.
Different strokes. I don’t think the Yankee penchant for pissing all over one self, because of a mean old bird, is sporting. Well, maybe in California.
I had a partner who was deputy sheriff out near Kerrville, Texas. One night he responded to a call for a man screaming. Upon arriving in the area he found a terrorized wetback. All the man would say was that he had been attacked by a: “pavo gigante!” (giant turkey) Further investigation revealed that the wetback was traveling cross country when he entered a pasture containing emus. The birds took exception to his presence and attacked him. Apparently the possibility that something like an emu existed was outside his experience.
