You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department- Oklahoma Legislation

[Ed W]

Just like Rick "Don't Google My Name" Santorum, Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is a gift that keeps on giving:

Sen. Ralph Shortey said he refuses to get a concealed carry license because he objects to requiring a license to carry guns. He said he started carrying a gun with him in his truck after a turkey attacked him while he was on an oil and gas job.

"Wait until you get attacked by a turkey, you will know the fear that a turkey can evoke in a person," said Shortey, R-Oklahoma City. "So I beat it with a club. That's all I could do. I wish that I had a gun with me."

Read more: Durant Daily Democrat - Oklahoma Senate panel amends passes open carry bill


http://www.durantdemocrat.com/view/full_story/18057430/article-Oklahoma-Senate-panel-amends--passes-open-carry-bill?instance=popular

Now I'm going to have dreams about roving gangs of turkeys, smoking cigarettes and stealing hubcaps.  Oh the humanity!

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

Don't forget hotel bedspreads.

Don't forget dirty tube socks.

[Red Arrow]

"Wait until you get attacked by a turkey, you will know the fear that a turkey can evoke in a person,"

I believe geese can be quite formidable too.

For real, no joke.

[nathanm]

I believe geese can be quite formidable too.

For real, no joke.

I can attest to this. Geese were in abundance outside my apartment, and they could get pretty darn rowdy at times.

[Red Arrow]

I can attest to this. Geese were in abundance outside my apartment, and they could get pretty darn rowdy at times.

I have heard (no first hand info) that in some parts of Europe, geese are as formidable as guard dogs.

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

Don't forget dirty tube socks.

Don't forget a goose's neck.

[Hoss]

Don't forget a goose's neck.

Drunk story now (no I'm not currently, but it involves something that happened while drunk).

I knew a bunch of guys from out of town that were going to Spartan back in the late eighties through a good friend of mine who was also going to Spartan.  At the time it seemed the popular place to live for those guys (before the apartments just south of the Spartan campus were built) was the Marina and Pelican's Wharf, both at 21st and Mingo/I-44.

Making a beer run, about four of us in a huge Ford LTD hit a goose.  Driver got out (yes he was inebriated but the drive up and back was two friggin' blocks), grabbed the dead goose, took to his apartment and closed the door.  That in and of itself should make for a weird story, but we opened the door, and he had plucked this goose bald.  Blood and feathers all over the bathroom.  I left after that.  Not sure what eventually happened to the goose.  I'm going to guess it wound up in the lake.  I never asked and never went back to that guys apartment again.

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

Drunk story now (no I'm not currently, but it involves something that happened while drunk).

I knew a bunch of guys from out of town that were going to Spartan back in the late eighties through a good friend of mine who was also going to Spartan.  At the time it seemed the popular place to live for those guys (before the apartments just south of the Spartan campus were built) was the Marina and Pelican's Wharf, both at 21st and Mingo/I-44.

Making a beer run, about four of us in a huge Ford LTD hit a goose.  Driver got out (yes he was inebriated but the drive up and back was two friggin' blocks), grabbed the dead goose, took to his apartment and closed the door.  That in and of itself should make for a weird story, but we opened the door, and he had plucked this goose bald.  Blood and feathers all over the bathroom.  I left after that.  Not sure what eventually happened to the goose.  I'm going to guess it wound up in the lake.  I never asked and never went back to that guys apartment again.

1) was it "about" 4 of you, or not?

2) never leave before story is over.

[Hoss]

1) was it "about" 4 of you, or not?

2) never leave before story is over.

1.  Remember I said inebriation played a part in this.  As clear as I can remember it was four.  Remember once again, inebriation played a part in this.
2.  I didn't want to see what happened next.  I had already seen enough.  Especially since the 'goose plucker' was praying to the porcelain deity in the same bathroom he 'cleaned' this bird.

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

2.  I didn't want to see what happened next.  I had already seen enough.  Especially since the 'goose plucker' was praying to the porcelain deity in the same bathroom he 'cleaned' this bird.

sorry, I am still not seeing reasonable cause to leave the scene

[patric]

I have heard (no first hand info) that in some parts of Europe, geese are as formidable as guard dogs.

The place where I boarded my horse had a guard goose, who would loudly announce the arrival of visitors.
I thought the attack posture was kinda cute until the first time he got ahold of my inner thigh.
Each time I would come out there he made it a priority to hunt me down, and I was avoiding him diligently.
Then one day I was preoccupied with some electrical work, and he put on quite a show trying to get a response out of me.
He would honk and screech and parade back and forth in the doorway, and when it became apparent I wasnt giving him my attention, he slowly walked towards me as I was sitting on the floor, then sat at my side halfway leaning on me.
Each time I had to move he would be back, cuddling and giving me his neck to pet.
They think a coyote or some other predator got him later that week, which made our brief friendship all the more bittersweet.   

[Hoss]

sorry, I am still not seeing reasonable cause to leave the scene

maybe not for you.  I however had a female companion in tow, so....

[DolfanBob]

Hoss if you remember Spartan had a lot of Arab students and from what I heard. The Marina started having a lot of their Ducks and Geese coming up missing. It was found out the Arab students were killing and eating them. The managment had to get them to move.

[Hoss]

Hoss if you remember Spartan had a lot of Arab students and from what I heard. The Marina started having a lot of their Ducks and Geese coming up missing. It was found out the Arab students were killing and eating them. The managment had to get them to move.

Must have been after 1990 or so, because I didn't know of that many attending at that point.  Just a bunch of GOBs from different parts of the country.  It was one big party apartment complexes (Marina and Pelican's Wharf).  I've got even more stories but not enough time to tell all of them.  One involved a drunk friend using a skeet thrower to hurl an unfortunate animal into the Marina lake from his back patio.

[TheMindWillNotLetGo]

I need to be partying with you

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