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2012-11-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Turkey Attacks On The Rise In Brookline
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Posted by Au Auric 2012-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336085 views ]  Top

#1 Turkey attacks? Nothing the 4th Infantry Division can't handle.
Posted by SteveS 2012-11-22 02:10||   2012-11-22 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 maybe instead of throwing the sticks, hold on and give a solid whack. I once killed an aggressive goose with a racket ball racket. Cooked him up nice too.
Posted by abu do you love 2012-11-22 02:31||   2012-11-22 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "Verrier says there are basic things you can do to protect yourself. If you see a turkey, move to the other side of the street. Make noise or spray the turkey with water.

Whatever you do, don't feed them or try to take a picture."


IOW the Turkeys act like European banlieu youths and the humans are advised to act like dhimmis.

They should barbecue before there's a carbecue.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2012-11-22 06:45||   2012-11-22 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Land for peace?
Posted by Perfesser 2012-11-22 08:35||   2012-11-22 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Too many turkeys in Massachusetts
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-11-22 08:47||   2012-11-22 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 You call them aggressive turkeys, I call them brave Avian Freedom Fighters.

Gimme a rick-roll here. k thks.
Posted by Shipman 2012-11-22 08:56||   2012-11-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's video of one of the turkey attacks...
Posted by Raj 2012-11-22 10:02||   2012-11-22 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 One (neotenised)man's turkey attack is another's thanksgiving meal.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-11-22 10:05||   2012-11-22 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 AH,

You are sooooooo correct. We have turkeys around our house and schools and on the golf course.

The aggressive and dangerous ones congregate on Beacon Hill and in various university faculty lounges.

Wish it was as easy to drive THEM off as it is the feathered kinds.

Posted by AlanC  2012-11-22 10:05||   2012-11-22 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree Raj - Rick Astley is a turkey. But didn't you want to post this link instead ?
Posted by Au Auric 2012-11-22 10:17||   2012-11-22 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Nah - I was going for the Rick Roll the whole time, just in case there were some people unfamiliar with the meme. Good turkey video, though!
Posted by Raj 2012-11-22 11:03||   2012-11-22 11:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Turkeys attack in Brookline? I'll bet Brookline surrenders by the end of the month.
All hail our new turkey masters! It's for...the children.
Posted by tu3031 2012-11-22 12:14||   2012-11-22 12:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Y'all are all idiots, that's dinner out there, a shotgun will fix this.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-11-22 12:56||   2012-11-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 For the nuts out there, there's a pistol that's chambered for .410 shotgun rounds, that'll work.

And it's fairly quiet too.
Attention folks, that's dinner out there.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-11-22 13:01||   2012-11-22 13:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Supposedly, Ben Franklin recommended the turkey for our national bird, rather than the bald eagle. Wild turkeys are smart, wily and delicious.

On the other hand, the domestic turkey - the type we eat at Thanksgiving - has been bred to be stupid and slow, but with a large breast.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-11-22 14:17||   2012-11-22 14:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Watched a flock of wild turkey hens, about 35 count, the other day while hunting. They put out flank guards and travel in a column of twos or threes. Flap their winds to blow away leaves and peck at bugs. Interesting creatures indeed.
Posted by Besoeker 2012-11-22 14:22||   2012-11-22 14:22|| Front Page Top

#17 So in other words we have Kardashian turkeys eh Rambler?
Posted by CrazyFool 2012-11-22 15:18||   2012-11-22 15:18|| Front Page Top

#18 So in other words we have Kardashian turkeys eh Rambler?
And that's just the male Toms, CrazyFool, and not only that Big-BreastedTurkeys Can't Have Sex
Posted by tipper 2012-11-22 15:47||   2012-11-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#19 You know, if they had some dogs instead of small-snacksized....things, then maybe the Turkeys wouldn't be so brave. My old lab chased off a flock of 40 in ten seconds flat.
Posted by Charles 2012-11-22 16:50||   2012-11-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#20 "It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack. It was almost as if they were...organized."
Posted by Angie Schultz 2012-11-22 19:54||   2012-11-22 19:54|| Front Page Top

#21 AoS nails it: "Turkeys, Sensing Weakness, Few Guns, Move to Take Over Brookline, MA"

Posted by Uncle Phester 2012-11-22 20:55||   2012-11-22 20:55|| Front Page Top

#22 I blame it on that WKRP anti-turkey video.
Posted by Pappy 2012-11-22 21:13||   2012-11-22 21:13|| Front Page Top

#23 Whoa, the North Koreans invade the NW while their Turkey allies invade the NE - ITS A TRAP, I TELL YA, A TRAP!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-11-22 22:05||   2012-11-22 22:05|| Front Page Top

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