‘Extremely Scary’: Jamaica Plain Residents Fearful Of Aggressive Turkeys.
BOSTON (CBS) – Sometimes nature can get a little too close for comfort, and sometimes that’s due to wild turkeys. We saw a tweet Monday about just that from someone who lives in the Moss Hill section of Jamaica Plain.
She complained about aggressive turkeys pecking at people out walking. We checked it out, and found that she’s not alone.
“It’s extremely scary. It’s frightening. If you’re walking they come up extremely, extremely close to you and they come forward like they’re going to bite you,” says Kathy Milmoe who lives in the neighborhood.
There are three wild turkeys that are causing problems for some neighbors in the Moss Hill area. It wasn’t hard to find people who have had a run in with aggressive turkeys.
h/t Forcibly Deranged.
Don’t worry about them pecking you. Google turkey spurs. Them suckers will put the hurt on you.
We’re surrounded by IDIOTS! Turkeys walking up to you are not a problem ….. that is what is called an excellent opportunity for a free meal in my neck of the woods. People in my area actually buy hunting licenses, put up decoys of turkeys and try to draw them in for a clean shot – these turkeys are just ambling up to people and presenting their necks for the butchering and the idiots complain about it.
America wouldn’t exist if these A-holes were the people that landed at Plymouth Rock.
Bubba’s Brother, that was my first thought, too! Instead of shrieking like little babies, I would be saying, “Lunch!”.
All animals should be approached WITH caution!
And humans even more…
Here’s a better example of WILLLLD turkeys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZQKO56QiY
Uh fukkin 12 gauge an BOOM! Supper!
Same asswipes scared of geese. Look here, smack his (the turkey or goose) head into the ground with the flat of your hand as fast as you can. He, it, will become disoriented. Break its neck. Have dinner, supper, whatever. That’s how you catch a turkey. Even a fucking child can do it.
It would happen to me once, next walk I would take a nice wooden cane or walking stick with me. Maybe a shillelagh
The govern(cough)government released a whole shitload(pardon the pun)in my area a few years ago because some desk jockey heard they were all gone(never stepped off concrete in his/her/ze/zer/it/s life now you can literally drive up to these massive gaggle?herds?what ever grab one stop it from ever moving again(besides through my stomach)no bullets no bows.well i guess it ain’t that bad.
Them fcuking canada geese are the real ass holes. Been attcked many times one knocked me on my ass. It tasted good cooked on some mesquite and rub.
There’s been many a hunter thought he was grabbing a dead turkey only to be shredded by there spurs. Don’t underestimate them or over estimate yourselves.
Good heavens. That explains why the commies have gotten such a stranglehold on America. Think how they’d react to the sissy bullies of Antifa, who are Turkeys of a different feather.
You don’t grab a downed turkey by the neck. grab the legs. when turkey hunting i always wear gloves
Hey Miss Claudia – I’ll post a story in your thread on “stories”, but for Different Tim this is how you handle those spurs.
If the locals can’t figure it out they deserve the turkeys.
In fact, considering where this is happening, I’m rooting
for the birds.
Wild turkeys have become a major problem in Oregon, and it is no joke. I live in an urban area, but outdoorsy hilly with trees and shrubbery. Every so often a flock of wild turkeys invades my yard and its size keeps expanding. Last count was 25. They have claws that I would not want to experience being attacked with. So far, I have not heard of any persons being threatened by them, although these flocks are showing up everywhere. If it were legal to kill them for food, a lot of hungry people could be fed with roast turkey. They are real life BIG in size. So is their poop!
Oregon College Campus Overrun By Wild Turkeys
posted by Maui – Mar 1, 2018
“There is turkey feces everywhere,” Evans said, “and they’re not scared of humans.”
The wild turkeys, along with a burgeoning population of rats and other urban wildlife around Eugene, have prompted the City Council to take action.
https://z100portland.iheart.com/content/2018-03-01-oregon-college-campus-overrun-by-wild-turkeys/
Waaaaaaa!
My food is fighting back.… no fair!
I have been triggered!!!
How DARE they force me to RUN for my safe space while getting my backside pinched!
Who do they think they are, Joe Biden?!?!
It’s probably illegal to kill them, but if someone took some poisoned chicken/turkey feed along and accidentally dropped some of it when they approached, I doubt anyone would be filing a complaint about it.
Jamaica Plain is in the middle of Boston. How in the world did they get there?
They will get all bent our of shape over a few migrant turkeys but will welcome a bunch of illegal alien invaders with open arms.
IDIOTS!
The Minutemen would’ve EATEN them, and given thanks to FATHER, SON, & HOLY SPIRIT for having provided them, FIRST.
Now their progeny, cower in fear at them… 🤮
“they had him cornered… and they were pecking”
Is “turkeys” a new leftist reporting codeword for “vibrant youths”?
Don’t worry too much, Michael Dukakis is just a few blocks away in his tank running flank speed to the rescue.
Crap! I just looked up turkey spurs.
Still not as bad as platypus barb, though.
Great pets. lol
Here’s a variation on a Soviet Russia style joke:
In southern USA, you must search to find wild turkeys
But in Leftist parts of USA, wild turkeys find YOU
Nothing like your store bought birds though still very tasty. You just don’t get the white meat like on the domestic bred birds.
How about bring a dog?
Angus would break up their party, with a Vigor!
I have my own flock of wild turkey’s. I feed them cracked corn. They do a great job keeping the bug population down, and they kill snakes! Living in rattler country makes me confident that the turkey’s take care of them just like that. In that video clip of that woman talking made me LMAO! I knew she was a whacked liberal smacking her pie hole. She is beyond stupid. Maybe we gotta have people like her in this world to give us a laugh now and then. Even in the comments section people are laughing at her.
I just looked out my kitchen window and there they were. One big tom with his tail feathers showing in all his glory. Three of his harem pecking around ignoring him. One hen got interested and started following him. Nature is such a fun thing to watch.
I read these stories and I imagine what a bounty I could have if I had a samurai sword in a situation like that.
BONSAI !!! swish, swish, swish
Reminds me of a poem from my childhood.
The turkeys pecked on the outhouse door
And they pecked and they pecked ’til their peckers were sore
Good thing for us that the Brits didn’t have huge flocks of wild turkeys during the Revolution, right? Monmouth, Saratoga, King’s Mountain, Cowpens, Trenton, Yorktown and others could have turned out really differently. Just think – we could have turned out more like Canada…
Any wild species that gets used to human contact is going to be an issue whether killing our pets, destroying environment, or aggression. Put the fear of humans back in them by whacking a few. It may be illegal for you to hunt them without a license, but “self defense” if one gets too close with a big stick or a machete will do the trick. I’d leave the carcass to prove I was not hunting.
I had the good fortune to grow up in a midwest river bottom next to a limestone bluff. There was never a shortage a interesting goings on what with the flora and fauna that could be both beautiful and harmful. Add the families favorite TV program of Wild Kingdom and a little brother who fancied himself as a Mini Marlon Perkins. Said Brother had a pet Gobbler that was a blast, if you knew how to deal. Timing was everything, when you heard the school bus coming you opened the backdoor and pretended to exit the house, when Gobbles came barreling, you pivoted and headed for the front door to have time to run down the driveway for the bus and avoid a flogging. Reverse bear hunting so to speak. Getting off the bus was another story. The bus driver was always entertained. I’ll never forget the sight of a flock of turkey hens “herding” a huge snapping turtle in the yard. Always be prepared, was my motto and I wasn’t a boy scout. It was just a way of life. Sigh.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
WKRP in Cincinnati
Off the subject of wild turkeys, but did you know that chickens can be violent to each other? Even beaks can be attack weapons.
In the movie “Chicken Run” there is a Sottish chicken (Mac) wearing glasses, but why?
Chicken eyeglasses, also known as chickens specs, chicken goggles, generically as pick guards and under other names,[2] were small eyeglasses made for chickens intended to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism. They differ from blinders as they allowed the bird to see forward whereas blinders do not. One variety used rose-colored lenses as the coloring was thought to prevent a chicken wearing them from recognizing blood on other chickens which may increase the tendency for abnormal injurious behavior.
They were mass-produced and sold throughout the United States as early as the beginning of the 20th century.[3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses
BTW, wild turkeys can fly. That is how they can get to a rooftop and over fences.