turkeys
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.
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).
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.
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.
Such as veterinary services, medical center CEO Paul Levy writes.
Earlier:
Some patients showed up early.
That's the best Brookline's animal control officer can say when discussing his town's turkey toughs.
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. ...
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.
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.
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.
OK, maybe not a pear tree, but a turkey. In a tree. In Boston.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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