Ethel Kennedy: Rogue Cape Cod turkey is ours

[February 04, 2011]  HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) -- Ethel Kennedy is taking responsibility for a rogue turkey caught on video attacking a mail truck near the family compound in Hyannisport.

Kennedy tells the Cape Cod Times that when the family gathered in Hyannisport at Thanksgiving she wanted the children to know what a real turkey looked like. So she sent her son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to a farm to buy two birds. One escaped. The children spent three days chasing it around the neighborhood, to no avail. Then last week, a bird matching the description of the Kennedy bird was spotted about two miles away attacking the truck in Barnstable. The 82-year-old Kennedy says: "It's our bird." ___ Information from: Cape Cod Times, http://www.capecodonline.com/ [Associated Press] Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.