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# Monday, March 16, 2009
Turkey Takes on Motorcycle
Posted by Brian Lovett

Source: sunjournal.com

BUCKFIELD - A Sunday afternoon motorcycle ride to shake off winter's cabin fever took a serious turn for a Maine rider after he was knocked off his bike by a wild turkey.

Jeffrey Russell, 23, of Hartford, Maine, was being treated for a fractured collarbone Sunday night at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after the 4:25 p.m. accident.

He was traveling with a friend on Route 117 between South Paris and Buckfield in the area around Streaked Mountain when a wild turkey flew directly into his chest, knocking him backward off his Kawasaki motorcycle and rendering him unconscious.

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