Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving
[align=center][align=center][b][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving[/size][/font][/b][font=宋体][size=10.5pt][/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet of N.Y. on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left — marching in single file — at about 1 p.m.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] Suffolk County police were called because the turkeys created a traffic hazard while crossing a road. But the officers didn't have to intervene because the birds kept walking — and hadn't been seen or heard from since, residents said Friday.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] Resident Joyce Logan said there was nopractical joke involved and the turkeys may have wandered into the Long Island neighborhood about 40 miles east of Manhattan from a nearby wooded area, where she had been hearing gobbles since summer.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] Logan said the birds walked away in a straight line between her house and her neighbor's, and she went back inside to prepare a store-bought turkey dinner for her family.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] Unlike some neighbors, Logan said, she never had thoughts of catching one of the turkeys in her yard and turning it into dinner.[/size][/font][/align][/align][align=left][align=left][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] "I can't eat something that I've met," she said.[/size][/font][/align][/align][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]感恩节当天，15只野火鸡“大摇大摆地”闯进美国纽约市郊的一个村庄，之后又“及时地”在晚饭前撤离了该地。学易网[/size][url=http://foreign.studyez.com/][size=3][color=#0000ff]http://foreign.studyez.com[/color][/size][/url][size=3]提供。[size=10.5pt][/size][/size][/font][size=10.5pt][font=宋体] 这群火鸡于上周四早上出现在当地，吸引了众多居民围观，但到了下午一点钟左右，它们又排着队离开了此地。[/font][/size]
[size=10.5pt][font=宋体] 据萨弗克县居民上周五介绍，这群火鸡过马路时一度引发交通混乱，但由于它们一直在前进，（之后也未见踪影，）所以闻讯赶来的警察没有采取任何干预措施。[/font][/size]
[size=10.5pt][font=宋体] 当地居民乔伊丝?洛根说，这绝对不是恶作剧，这些火鸡可能从附近的一个树林一直“溜达”到了位于曼哈顿以东约40英里的长岛。洛根说，从今年夏天开始，她就经常听见从附近的树林里传出火鸡“咕咕”叫的声音。[/font][/size]
[size=10.5pt][font=宋体] 洛根说，火鸡们排成整齐的一队，从她家和邻居家之间走过，离开了小镇；之后，洛根又回去为全家准备火鸡大餐，不过火鸡是从商店里买的。[/font][/size]
[size=10.5pt][font=宋体] 洛根说，她与一些邻居的想法不同，她从没想过要从院子里抓一只火鸡，把它变成盘中餐。[/font][/size]
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