Brookline, turkeys

Why did the turkey hail a cab?

adamg — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:42:28 -0400

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

Brookline turkeys draw blood

adamg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:27 -0400

... Recently, the animal control officer encountered two male turkeys while conducting an investigation into a report of a wild turkey. He was attacked by these turkeys, requiring medical attention to his leg. It appears a resident had been feeding the turkeys.

Brookline Police ask all residents not to feed turkeys in their neighborhoods. If the turkeys have no food they will move on. They also advise residents not to leave children unattended in the yard near turkeys ...

Especially don't feed them after midnight.

Brookline's turkeys are back

adamg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:55:41 -0400

And they're hungry.

Media just gobbles up the Brookline turkey story

adamg — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:04:34 -0400

Today NPR, tomorrow the Times?

Via Jeff Egnaczyk, who notes the story sucked because they didn't interview his wife Caroline, a true hero in this fowl war.

The Tab, meanwhile, runs a blood-curdling column by Susan Senator of Brookline on being attacked by one of the killer beasts:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because she was trying to get away from the wild turkey that was attacking her. ...

Where is downtown Brookline?

adamg — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:17:13 -0400

Apparently following up on a Daily Free Press report, the Globe today discusses the issue of turkeys in "downtown Brookline" (the Free Press used the same phrase). Is that anything like Boston Village? Also, memo to Globe editors: Turkeys have been in Brookline for awhile now.

But bonus points for detailing a savage attack by one of the Beacon Street brutes on a poor woman from Dorchester - Should Boston start warning residents about travel to Brookline?

Bonus turkey report:
Mr. Gobbles is alive and well in Kendall Square.

Never feed them after midnight

adamg — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:28:49 -0400

Are we sure the Beacon Street turkeys aren't really gremlins?

... Last night, for the second time, there was a wild turkey on Beacon Street in Brookline blocking my way and forcing me out of the bike lane and into the street. ...

With photo of one of the increasingly gigantic beasts.

Hmm ... Think we could train them to eat rats?

Can nothing stop the terror turkeys of Brookline?

adamg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:11:25 -0400

The stuff of nightmares.

Fighting back: One company's valiant struggle against the terror turkeys of Beacon Street

adamg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:22:44 -0400

Carol Egnaczyk works on terrorized Beacon Street and decides enough's enough (she explains how she and co-workers came up with their strategy here - where she also posts additional video):

When turkeys go bad

adamg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:28:01 -0400

Brookline's terror turkeys are now roaming up and down Beacon Street chasing people like the two-bit hoods they've become.

It's only a matter of time before the terror turkeys of Brookline taste blood

adamg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:01:20 -0400

John Gamel was there on Beacon Street last night as the driver of a Honda Civic made the mistake of getting out to check on the condition of the turkey that wouldn't let her through - cleverly falling into his trap so that he could start chasing her around the car just for the hell of it. And when the Brookline PD showed up, he just glowered.

Via the Brookline Tab.