美國：野火雞感恩節突訪小鎮

Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving

Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet of N.Y. on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.

The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left — marching in single file — at about 1 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

Unlike some neighbors, Logan said, she never had thoughts of catching one of the turkeys in her yard and turning it into dinner.

"I can't eat something that I've met," she said.

感恩節當天，15只野火雞“大搖大擺地”闖進美國紐約市郊的一個村莊，之後又“及時地”在晚飯前撤離了該地。

這羣火雞於上週四早上出現在當地，吸引了衆多居民圍觀，但到了下午一點鐘左右，它們又排着隊離開了此地。

據薩弗克縣居民上週五介紹，這羣火雞過馬路時一度引發交通混亂，但由於它們一直在前進，（之後也未見蹤影，）所以聞訊趕來的警察沒有采取任何干預措施。

當地居民喬伊絲•洛根說，這絕對不是惡作劇，這些火雞可能從附近的一個樹林一直“溜達”到了位於曼哈頓以東約40英里的長島。洛根說，從今年夏天開始，她就經常聽見從附近的樹林裏傳出火雞“咕咕”叫的聲音。

洛根說，火雞們排成整齊的一隊，從她家和鄰居家之間走過，離開了小鎮；之後，洛根又回去爲全家準備火雞大餐，不過火雞是從商店裏買的。

洛根說，她與一些鄰居的想法不同，她從沒想過要從院子裏抓一隻火雞，把它變成盤中餐。

她說：“我不能把我見過的東西吃掉。”

hamlet:村子；村莊

practical joke:惡作劇