Oasis Magazine - Cairns & Tropical North Queensland Issue 22 - Feb|Mar 2018 | Page 4

P ecking DIS-ORDER WARNER’S CORNER DAVE WARNER Star 102.7 I’m on good terms with all my neighbours, except one, who thinks he’s Snoop Dogg. He wears this big gold look-at-me necklace, thinks he can pull any chick in the hood and struts around in his Rasta colours like he owns the joint. I’ve never been a fan of the ‘drop in’ visitor and this Bling King with his su casa mi casa attitude rocks up at Warnerworld every bloody day. Dropping in for a feed is one thing, which I’m cool with, but what I’m totally NOT cool with is him running around the backyard trying to shag our chickens. So the whole thing’s escalated and I now find myself at war with a horny scrub turkey. He lives in the big old Raintree next door and watches Harriet, Hazel and Charcoal 4 | w w w. o a s i s m a g a z i n e . c o m . a u like some sort of sexually charged pole opposite. But what really freaks satellite sniper. These daily incursions me the F@$& out is cracking one of across the border into my sovereign the girls eggs on a Sunday morning state have developed into a hostile and ending up with a front row seat humpy, pillage and plunder situation. to the freaky creepy Frankenstein bird show… on my toast! This badly plumed predator is trying to create little baby As it turns out scrub Scrub Churkeys with our turkeys aren’t just an SO THE WHOLE girls. If chickens had uninvited and invasive THING’S ESCALATED fingers and thumbs, garden Lothario, AND I NOW FIND they’d be tapping out they’re also a native MYSELF AT WAR WITH A HORNY #metoo. Australian bird and SCRUB TURKEY. Didn’t know that was a thing? This interspecies humpy thing? Me neither, till I googled it and apparently scrub turkeys aren’t too fussed about who they hook up with and, good God man cover your eyes, the offspring are the opposite of pretty. North pole – South a protected species. Shame, because if he gets one of my girls pregnant, I’d quite happily organise a shotgun wedding. Of the literal kind. Lock up your chickens people, Snoop Dogg Scrub Turkey is in da hood. Fo shizzle!