It flew through the windshield and then through the back window, denting the cab on the back of his work truck and cracking the top open like a can, then bounced or fell back inside of the truck landing on the seat next to him. I got the call from my husband at 7:30 a.m. telling me what had happened. He was sitting along the highway, outside of the truck up on the hillside for safety reasons, waiting on the police to get there since he needed a police report for his job and also waiting for a tow truck. It was either the 911 dispatcher or the State Police that they put him through to when he called that told him to get out of the truck and wait on the hillside since that is a crazy busy highway. Needless to say, I was quite upset when I found out what had happened and thanking the Lord that he wasn't killed. Thank God it flew through the passenger side of the windshield, and thank God that no one was with him when it happened. Sometimes he and our brother-in-law, R., ride to work together and, thankfully, today wasn't one of those days. The cop who did the police report was super nice and told my husband that in his 28 years of being an officer, he has never seen anything like this before. He also told him that he's lucky to be alive...
We always worry about hitting a deer, but I never thought in a million years about the possibility of a turkey dive-bombing and crashing through the windshield.... That is, until this morning......
The back window...
Glass, blood, feathers, urine and feces are everywhere inside of the truck. My husband said that when the turkey came through the windshield, it was like a bomb went off. He saw it swoop down with it's huge wing-span - a silhouette in the morning sunlight coming from the East through the windshield, and thought... (well you can just imagine what was going through his mind. I don't think I need to spell it out here for you).... as he was trying to drive the truck over in the next lane a bit so it would hopefully go through the middle or passenger side all while trying to not cause an accident - all of this was happening within a matter of seconds. It happened so fast. He said the wingspan of this turkey was every bit as wide as his windshield! Then once the turkey crashed through the windshield, my husband still had to drive another 3/4 mile or so to find a safe place to pull over to the side of the highway all the while feeling quite shaken and tramatized. He felt something thumping against his thigh and tried to ignore it at first. It was the turkey's talons since it was twitching from being decapitated. My husband said it was very creepy. It was laying on top of the paperwork/phone number he has for reporting an accident to his company. Thank goodness he had on his safety sunglasses, because there was glass everywhere. So once he was pulled over on the side of the road, he got his gloves and threw the turkey out of the truck into the grass. He said it had to have been every bit of 25-30 pounds if not more......
From the inside of the truck....
Needless to say, my husband got a great big hug when he came home this afternoon. I am so very thankful that he's ok. Thank you, thank you, dear Lord, for watching over him this morning. I am so very grateful. Amen......
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