Bonnie Rovics was at the Franklin Park Zoo the other day when she noticed one of our local turkeys had gotten into the pen where the ostriches live - and that when an ostrich came after it, it mounted a counter-attack.
Caroline Barnes, who sells posters celebrating the angry turkeys of Brookline, reports that the town and the Brookline Art Makes Community are in receipt of their first shipment of oversized fiberglass turkeys, which local artists will paint and place around the town.
A roving UHub photographer stumbled across this scene in Tombstone, um, on Sacramento Street in Cambridge yesterday: Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Hope Cole spotted this turkey, no doubt hoping she can catch up with the Duck Boat at its next stop, near Science Park yesterday.
Mack Garvey reports Tobie the Turkey seems to have made a home along Tremont Street in Charlestown, near the Tobin Bridge. Read more.
Why is it crossing the road?
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report today to alert the city there was a turkey at Nearen Row and Tremont Street in Charlestown.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking for help for an injured turkey on Beacon Street near Exeter in the Back Bay: Read more.
Around 8:45 a.m., Boston's Leslie Knope reported this potentially fowl problem on the Green Line in Brighton, but based on the lack of T alerts, the gaggle was gone by the time any trolleys pulled through.
Teddy Kokoros watched this turkey who had obviously gotten up early to get some boba on Brighton Avenue near Harvard Avenue in Allston this morning. Read more.
WBZ reports the woman felt compelled to resort to her purse after the birds took up position on either side of her and then started following her.
Today is the start of the annual Massachusetts state turkey census. Report a turkey today.
Michael A. Burstein reports seeing three turkeys on Tappan Street in Brookline today, but that only one approaching the size of Rhode Island.
A roving UHub photographer with access to the City Hall garage spotted this turkey this morning pondering which car to take home.
Officer tries to back up to no avail: Terror tom just keeps coming.
The other day, Spencer Roach watched a confrontation between one of the neighborhood tough toms and a Boston Police officer in a cruiser, from the safety of his fenced-in yard at Metropolitan Avenue and Poplar Street in Roslindale. Read more.
Brit tabloid the Daily Mail breathlessly reports about rogue turkeys in Cambridge, yes, Cambridge, not Brookline: Read more.
One of these days, men in Dorchester will learn that if you go after a turkey, it will return the favor. And it has velociraptor-like spurs and a beak and you don't. But until then, we'll keep getting videos like the one above, and sagas like the guy forced onto the hood of a car by the turkeys he tried to menace.
Jill Cetel was passing by the Boston Pre-Release Center on the Mattapan/Roslindale line and wonders what the turkey did.
Joshua Lupkin shows us the scene this morning outside Harvard's Barker Center, where some of Harvard Square's tougher toms tried intimidating Remy the Cat, but Remy stood, or sat, his ground. Read more.
Jon Hillman spotted this wrapped turkey at Spring Lane and Devonshire Street downtown this morning.
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