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The killer turkeys of Brookline have spawned in Brighton

By adamg - 11/22/09 - 12:20 pm

Turkeys or dwarf velociraptors? Brenda Pizzo shares this frightening description in a discussion on turkeys running rampant through Brighton:

... They have actually stood in the middle of the street and tried to attack my car by pecking at the bumper.

When a turkey peers at you from the driver's side window it's a bit unnerving since they look totally unreal and are almost at eye level with you.

Graphic depiction of turkey abuse at Emmanuel College

By adamg - 10/12/09 - 1:00 pm

Ah, freshmen. A pair of Emmanuel students, unaware that turkeys are everywhere in the medical district, attempt to herd one off campus and into "the woods" along the Muddy River. They panic the poor bird onto the Riverway, where only by the grace of God does it avoid getting filleted by a speeding Subaru. The one saving grace of the whole sordid episode: The sprained ankle one of the guys manages to get when he exerts himself:

Via Wicked Local Brookline (in Brookline, turkeys don't put up with stuff like this).

Turkeys advance on Brighton

By adamg - 8/10/09 - 12:55 pm

Is Allston next in their sights?

Earlier:
Talking turkey on Avenue Louis Pasteur.

Talking turkey on Avenue Louis Pasteur

By adamg - 7/10/09 - 9:33 am

Gobble, gobble!

These turkeys (and a third, out of view) seemed more inquisitive than aggressive as they followed people walking along the avenue by Simmons and Boston Latin this morning.

In a town without pity, a squirrel without fear

By adamg - 6/9/09 - 1:48 pm

Wicked Local Brookline proves Brookline is turning feral: The killer turkeys remain on the loose and now even the squirrels are turning into two-bit punks.

Changing reimbursement methodologies would open new revenue opportunties for Beth Israel Deaconness

By adamg - 6/3/09 - 10:27 am

Such as veterinary services, medical center CEO Paul Levy writes.

Earlier:
Some patients showed up early.

Make way for turklings

By adamg - 5/25/09 - 8:25 pm

Turkey hen and ten baby turkeys in Davis Square today.

Gobbling up Beth Israel Deaconess

By adamg - 5/22/09 - 10:04 am

Wild turkeys in front of Beth Israel this morning.

'For the most part, people can defend themselves'

By adamg - 5/16/09 - 12:32 pm

That's the best Brookline's animal control officer can say when discussing his town's turkey toughs.

Rime of the Ancient Turkey of Savin Hill

By adamg - 5/2/09 - 2:46 pm

Dan Tobin provides the photographic proof Savin Hill has at least one turkey, along with proof that Savin Hill has a Little League.

... Dorchester hasn't been a place where wild turkeys roamed free for quite some time - it was incorporated in 1630. So I think it's fair to assume the turkey I saw this morning was nearly 400 years old. ...

How does turkey marsala sound?

By adamg - 4/20/09 - 11:59 am

Wild turkey crossing Hanover Street. Yes, that Hanover Street.

Say, we don't get many turkeys in here

By adamg - 4/16/09 - 9:47 am

And with prices like these ...

Ahem. The Berkeley Beacon reports on a turkey found wandering around the state Transportation Building early Tuesday:

Havoc almost broke out at City Place Plaza Tuesday morning due to the presence of a distraught wild turkey outside the Stuart Street entrance. At 6:15 a.m. baristas at the City Place Starbucks spotted what was either a genetically altered starling or Ben Franklin's favorite bird.

With exclusive photos of the city fowl.

Sometimes the punk turkeys of Brookline lose their way

By adamg - 4/14/09 - 10:17 pm

And wind up on the Brighton/Newton line, charging at cars and pecking any that dare stop.

Turkey toughs terrorize town

By adamg - 4/14/09 - 8:02 am

The town being Brookline, of course. Turkeys force car into oncoming traffic.

Drumsticks on the move in Hyde Park

By adamg - 3/7/09 - 11:11 am

Turkeys!

DMCBoston forwarded the above photo, showing the turkeys that have been strutting around Sunnyside in Hyde Park for the last few months (Sunnyside is near Stony Brook Reservation, which seems like the kind of place turkeys might hide out). I've asked if they're killing machines like the ones up in Brookline or more live-and-let-live types. If I don't get an answer, will assume the worst.

The turkeys are now approaching the station

By adamg - 3/1/09 - 4:26 pm

As if Riverside commuters didn't have enough to worry about, now people getting off at Longwood have to dodge the blood-crazed killer turkeys of Brookline.

Digiphile somehow evaded them long enough to post the photo.

And a turkey in a pear tree

By adamg - 12/27/08 - 11:54 pm

OK, maybe not a pear tree, but a turkey. In a tree. In Boston.

It's never a good sign when the turkeys begin to organize

By adamg - 10/13/08 - 10:43 pm

We haven't heard much recently about Brookline's killer turkeys. But that's perhaps because they've been off at a secret training camp. And now, they're back patrolling Beacon Street.

So who's the real turkey here, Carl?

By adamg - 10/9/08 - 4:12 pm

WBZ's Carl Stevens refuses to leave the Harvard Business School turkey alone, so she claws him. Hey, if he kept getting in my face, especially if he were reciting some of his poetry, I might be tempted to do that, too. The well deserved attack occurs around 1:55:

This is not the first time that Stevens has hounded a poor animal that just wanted to be left alone.

Why did the turkey cross the road in South Boston?

By adamg - 10/9/08 - 9:59 am

To escape the Southie Devil Monster.

The only thing worse than being criticized is being ignored

By adamg - 8/1/08 - 2:48 pm

We're talking, of course, about the Southie Turkey, which, in just a couple of months, has become the local avian Britney Spears: Nobody cares anymore and, frankly, some people just wish she would go away already. Jason chronicles her sad decline; all that's left is the inevitable trip to rehab.

"Oh look, there's the Southie turkey again."

Yawn.

Karma is so fowl

By adamg - 6/16/08 - 9:46 am

Turkey on the loose

You know what's going to happen when you park your fool Cadillac in a crosswalk in the Longwood Medical Area? A turkey's going to jump on your car and peck at it mercilessly, as Tom Wheaton observed.

Good gravy: Turkey struts stuff in Southie

By adamg - 5/24/08 - 11:44 am

At first, it seemed like a wild goose chase as Jason ran around South Boston looking for the townie turkey:

... Walk up to E. 7th St, and I see a lady staring eastward at nothing in particular.

"Did you see the turkey?" I shouted?

"Yeah, it went down H St." ...

Nothing on H Street. But then he saw the crowd.

Why did the turkey hail a cab?

By adamg - 5/11/08 - 10:42 am

To get to the other side of town before police realized he'd set an Audi on fire.

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