--- title: Turkey Vulture Crashed Into Stephen A. Smith's ESPN Office description: A turkey vulture smashed through the window of ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith's office in Bristol, Conn., on Tuesday morning. No, really. canonical: https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-26T15:17:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:22.859Z og:title: Turkey Vulture Crashed Into Office to Make an Important Point og:description: Famous for his hot takes, even Smith wasn't prepared og:url: https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Turkey Vulture Crashed Into Office to Make an Important Point twitter:description: Famous for his hot takes, even Smith wasn't prepared twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Turkey Vulture Crashed Through an Office Window Presumably to Make an Important Point by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Mar 26, 2019 3:17 PM UTC by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Mar 26, 2019 3:17 PM UTC [ESPN](http://time.com/5556925/katelyn-ohashi-removes-michael-jackson-music-from-routine/) analyst Stephen A. Smith is used to craziness — and reacting to it. But even he wasn’t prepared for a bird to crash into his office. > [](https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1110538521104674816) A [turkey vulture](http://time.com/5458952/trump-pardons-turkey/) smashed through the window of Smith’s office in Bristol, Conn., on Tuesday morning, according to tweets from an ESPN writer and host, Adam Schefter and Trey Wingo. After crashing into Smith’s office, the bird stared out the window “contemplating his fate,” Wingo said. > [](https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/1110518832140034048) Thankfully, Smith wasn’t in his Bristol office on Tuesday, so no analysts were harmed in the making of this story. > [](https://twitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1110523773462241280) But that didn’t stop Twitter users from laughing at the situation by using clips to show how Smith, famous for his hot takes, may have reacted to the incident. > [](https://twitter.com/PointsBetUSA/status/1110543233438892032) > [](https://twitter.com/LunaOnOW/status/1110538956570087425) > [](https://twitter.com/damienwoody/status/1110538735056285696) > [](https://twitter.com/Leo%5F%5Fffs/status/1110538930728914944) > [](https://twitter.com/NFLUK/status/1110538754345844736) > [](https://twitter.com/TheMightyEROCK/status/1110552835572289536) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/"},"headline":"Turkey Vulture Crashed Through an Office Window Presumably to Make an Important Point","datePublished":"2019-03-26T15:17:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:22.859Z","description":"Famous for his hot takes, even Smith wasn't prepared","url":"https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5558868/turkey-crashes-into-espn-office/","name":"Turkey Vulture Crashed Through an Office Window Presumably to Make an Important Point"}}]}] ```