This Thanksgiving, Take Your Cue From These Turkeys
Before we take off for the Thanksgiving weekend, we wanted to leave you with this priceless moment in which wild turkeys stage a critical mass and block traffic in Staten Island.
By
Tanya Snyder
3:06 PM EST on November 23, 2011
Before we take off for the Thanksgiving weekend, we wanted to leave you with this priceless moment in which wild turkeys stage a critical mass and block traffic in Staten Island.
Who knew turkeys had such strong feelings about equal treatment for nonmotorized transportation?
Note: Streetsblog does not condone the videographer’s pro-hunting zeal, nor do we condone operating a videocamera while driving, especially with an NYCDOT placard in your windshield.
We’ll be off tomorrow and Friday (and we hope you will be too). See you next week!
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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