March 18 (UPI) — Wild turkeys interrupted train services on New York’s Staten Island twice within the space of under two hours.
The first incident occurred around 2:30 p.m. Monday when turkeys were spotted on the tracks west of the Staten Island Railway’s Old Town station.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Joana Flores told the New York Daily News that the birds eventually scattered after multiple blasts of a train horn.
Turkeys were again spotted on the tracks, this time year St. George, about 4 p.m. Those turkeys also eventually scattered at the sound of a train horn…