Students at the Haley School on American Legion Highway in Roslindale hesitate before they leave in the afternoon these days - because they know an angry turkey is probably waiting for them on the other side of the doors.
"As soon as he sees people he just turns and runs at them," parent Brittney Moon, said. "He’s relentless."
She added, "It's been a good like 2 weeks now. All day long. He was posted up outside of the front door of the school the other day and no one could leave. He was chasing everyone that he could see."
Moon somehow managed to retain her composure long enough to snap the menacing turkey as it advanced towards her, just seconds after she had photographed him in repose, still unaware of her:
"He got real mad when he turned around," she said.
She added that school officials have asked Animal Control for help, but that Animal Control replied there's not much it could do because turkeys are a protected species.
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Turkeys. Public ways. Sanitation?
By theszak
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 11:57am
a) Why are turkeys on public ways around the area? How did the recent presence of the animals on public ways come to be?
b) Who cleans turkey waste left behind?
So what you're asking is ...
By adamg
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 11:51am
Why did the turkey cross the road? The state began a program awhile back to reintroduce turkeys, and the turkeys discovered they really liked the suburbs and leafier urban neighborhoods.
As for turkey waste, I imagine it's the same people who pick up after geese.
Who takes care of turkey waste?
By SC from JP
Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:45pm
The answer, as always, is Michael Dukakis.
solution
By Luke Warm
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 12:26pm
equally angry janitor+ super soaker+ vinegar. Humane. Offensive. Eye for eye.
Human? Its a Turkey
By anon
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 1:40pm
Just shoot the thing!
And promptly get arrested ...
By adamg
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 3:31pm
For a) Hunting within city limits and b) Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building in use.
Or are you not from Boston?
Protected Species
By Suldog
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 5:14pm
My first thought was, "Why doesn't someone take a baseball bat to it when it runs at them?", but then I read that Animal Control says turkeys are a protected species. Anyone know to what extent that protection extends? Does it stop someone from harming a turkey even if it is apparently attacking your child?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Time to take turkeys off the protected species list
By mg
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 12:41pm
They certainly aren't endangered in Eastern MA!
Also, why would them being protected keep Animal Control from being able to relocate this menace - it clearly is a Brookline turkey that went astray.
I agree that Animal Control needs to step up
By perruptor
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 12:59pm
It's their job, and they don't have to harm the birds to discourage them.
You want us rounded up into
By Turkey Liberati...
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 1:20pm
You want us rounded up into camps and slaughtered.
We will never surrender.
We will never submit.
We are free birds.
We will free our ancestral homelands from your occupation!
GOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEE!
Strut on!
By Saddlebrook7
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 1:39pm
Terror is justice;
Tots quail before your fury,
O Tom Robespierre!
TLF anthem?
By perruptor
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 4:56pm
Is this your anthem?
counter turkey terror
By PCWR
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 12:58pm
not my idea but I thought clever...
when they get big and come after you, inflate golf umbrella at them and back 'em down, repeat if necessary.
I have a video we took of
By Dulci
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 3:23pm
I have a video we took of what I am sure was this turkey yesterday morning crossing American Legion right across from Wendy's. On his defense, it did wait until the light was red to cross.
BNC Turkey
By JPMom
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 11:44pm
There’s a gang of them that congregate at the leafy Boston Nature Center across Walk Hill Street. I wonder why this guy left those comfortable environs for American Legion. A loner, too. Strange.
this is so dumb
By passing thru
Fri, 01/11/2019 - 8:18am
someone brings a dog on a leash for a day and harrasses the turkey, and it'll go somewhere else
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