Turkey Crashes Through Pennsylvania Eatery's Glass Window

PENN HILLS, Pa. -- A wild turkey smashed through a plate glass window at an empty western Pennsylvania restaurant and ended up where millions of its fellow gobblers did on Thanksgiving: a dining room.

Penn Hills police Officer Bernard Sestili tells the WTAE-TV the feathered fowl didn't survive impact when it barreled into the dining room of the Eat'n Park in Penn Hills on Thursday afternoon. The restaurant was closed at the time.

Sestili says he responded when the building's alarm went off.

He suspects the turkey may have been roosting in a nearby tree when it "got up this morning and went for his morning flight and flew into the window."

Penn Hills is about 10 miles outside Pittsburgh.

Comments

[acarioti]

08:11 AM on 11/28/2011

No one told the turkey the war was over! It was still scrambling trying to get away. He went from roosting to rosting!

[dbrett480]

01:31 PM on 11/27/2011

I hope the officer got to take the bird home for a nice Thanksgiving meal.

[Chestnut horse]

12:16 AM on 11/27/2011

Never use turkeys as homing pigeons.

[Chestnut horse]

12:14 AM on 11/27/2011

TIM-MEE.

[wonderfullone]

12:04 AM on 11/27/2011

The Turkey was not a morning bird.

[Ashleigh L]

08:47 AM on 11/26/2011

Poor birdy.

[rhandwerk]

11:22 PM on 11/25/2011

might have been an 'ows' protest against killing of his fellow turkeys.

[Getting it right]

09:39 PM on 11/25/2011

Okay fine ... I will say it! It is Bush's fault! No? Okay, it is Obama's fault! No, hmmm .... You know, it could be that the turkey was just stupid and no one was to blame on this one. We will go with that for now.

[Counterglow]

10:20 AM on 11/27/2011

Nearly as bright as the turkey: people who don't understand that Huffington Post is essentially a political site, and visited by people who reflect this simple fact.

[Getting it right]

02:31 AM on 11/28/2011

Way to miss the point eggnog! My point is that a story like this, even on this site, can be free of political leanings of any kind.

Nice try though ... I guess.

[hattie54]

04:33 PM on 11/25/2011

Now thats a fresh bird.

[dave1marine]

02:15 PM on 11/25/2011

Well, I just don't quite know what to say about something like this..

[beckytckr]

04:49 PM on 11/26/2011

I know you think you understood what you thought he said, but I'm not sure you understand that what he said is not what he meant. : )

[cottere5]

12:22 AM on 11/26/2011

Go get-um Dave, you said what I wanted to say. Semper- Fi!

[mebemommee06]

12:44 PM on 11/25/2011

seems it just wasn't his day.. but was someone else's,,

[Fanny Lebowitz]

10:10 AM on 11/25/2011

The turkey obviously got the idea to save its kind from being eaten from the game "Angry Birds"

[dil123]

09:51 AM on 11/25/2011

It would have been funnier if the restaurant had been full of people eating Thanksgiving dinner.

[misslauren88]

09:35 AM on 11/25/2011

wow that turkey REALLY wanted to be eaten!

[jozie]

09:31 AM on 11/25/2011

A turkey committing suicide, in a dining room, on Thanksgiving. You can't make this stuff up!