Published February 3, 2011
I just… I don’t even… Here, watch this first:
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The turkey that attacked a mail truck in Centerville last week may have a Kennedy connection.
“It was my turkey,” Ethel Kennedy said in a phone conversation with the Times on Wednesday.
It gets better: Ethel Kennedy (RFK’s widow) said the turkey escaped ON THANKSGIVING.
“I wanted the grandchildren to know what a live turkey looked like,” said Kennedy, who was calling from Florida. “I asked Bobby (son Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) to go to a turkey farm and get one black one and one white one.”
But trouble began to gobble shortly after the birds arrived in Hyannisport. Kennedy said her son opened the car door and the black turkey immediately escaped.
No word on whether the bird might be related to the roaming turkeys of Brookline.
Update, 2/4: The bird probably does not belong to Ethel Kennedy.
2nd update: A capture attempt was unsuccessful.