Parkour vs. turkeys

[Bio]

Time: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Place: Goethe Park, American River Parkway, just east of Sacramento
Terrain: Mature riparian forest, trees and large bushes scattered with open areas between, many fallen logs, topography generally flat but with a few small ravines.
Representing mankind: Me, my brother
Representing nature: Three wild turkeys

"I wonder if we could catch those things?"
"I dunno... Let's give it a shot."

The place was PERFECT for nature parkour, and I managed to get about 7 feet from them at one point. They're pretty quick and they can always just fly away if they want to, but in those conditions I think that the turkeys only had a slight advantage. Given a little bit of luck you could definitely catch up to one. It was absolutely amazing.

[orem]

wow next time i'm up please take me a long on a turkey "hunt."

until then, i second the request for video! :)

[SafeNSure]

...any double meaning that I'm not aware of?
Like jumping on a turkey cold turkey?...

[monk]

as long as we all understood what you meant by "stenched" (and we did), then yes, it is correct!

[SafeNSure]

OMG...
Yesterday we surrounded one during practice (overpass Geary @Webster), but he easily stenched us away!
(is "stench" politically correct?)

[Ryan Fulmer]

we should do the same thing in GGPark with the bums.

Capture the Bum!!!!

[Chris]

This seriously needed to be video taped : (

[Bio]

No no, we figured that if we could get close enough and touch it, that would count as a "catch". Plus if we were to full-on tackle the thing, it would probably try to peck our eyes out or something.

[SafeNSure]

(him or it?)

[SafeNSure]

...if I would get him I could talk him to death.
But you guys...
Would you plan to actually strangle him?

[Bio]

Then what?

I figured I'd cross that bridge when I came to it. :)