Apparently the wild turkeys in Massachusetts are a little wilder than previously thought. In what seems a preemptory strike at the populace prior to Thanksgiving, wild turkeys have been showing up, intimidating folks, even pecking at their backsides to make their point.
Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.
The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.
"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."
The NRA has commented that Massachusetts' overweening gun control laws have emboldened the turkeys.
"What can I say? These turkey thugs know they aren't facing armed citizens out there. They have no need to fear." says Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. "You don't hear about problems like this in the South where there is still a hunting culture."
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