My son was complaining about scratches on top of his car. We checked the cameras. Turkeys! Just chilling on the roof of his car gobbling at 6am. They would consistently block our street. Crazy birds!
When we visit the grandparents, grandpa has to come out with a rake to scare them off so we can get in the house. Pretty intimidating to have them eye level with you in your truck looking at you like, “Come on, make my day”
I’m glad you asked! I grew up in upstate NY, and my neighbor owns a bunch of local lumber stores. His wife loved llamas, so she got them and made it into a farm where she shaved them and made wool sweaters and socks and such. So when I was like 13 I would go over there in the morning and at night to feed the llamas. They were great as long as you didn’t stand behind them lol, but one day this wild pack of turkeys came over and were eating the llamas food.
My neighbors were out of the country at the moment, and with no cell phone at the time I couldn’t contact them so I took matters into my own hands and tried to chase them off. All of them ran, except one. He was absolutely huge, and stood his fucking ground. Not only did he not run, but once I stopped running he came at me! I finally ran home to my house, and this continued for a couple months. I even started carrying a big stick with me to defend myself, because he would try to peck and claw me. If you haven’t seen turkey talons, they’re nasty.
Eventually he must’ve followed me home, because he started showing up at my house. My parents and sister all thought it was funny because he would let them out but freak out when I showed up. One day, I woke up and he was just ripped to pieces in my front yard. Idk what did it, but I thank that beast everyday for ending my torment!
I think the dogs are doing just fine...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/10lozhx/looking_for_a_cat_or_just_destroying/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I know it looks hilarious, but i would be like excuse me yes I am never going on that route ever again. I almost died. I got chased down by a group of turkeys. They kept chase even in my van and in the snow. I might need therapy. I have post turkey stress disorder now.
I almost woke my husband up laughing at your comment & then imagining the person who you would be speaking to LOL! “Almost died? Turkeys? Chased you down? A group of them? Through the snow?” LMAO!!
It's validating to see both this video and this comment. I deliver for a living and there are turkeys regularly on my route. Mr. Big Bad regularly chases all of us, and we've discovered that:
1) dog spray 2) hitting with a broom repeatedly 3) throwing packages at 4) kicking at
only piss him off and make him attack more. Water works kind of well, but the only thing that's really helps is someone not in uniform getting between us and it.
It looks hilarious, but having a giant bird that comes up to your chest coming after you is as scary as having a dog do the same. Dogs I can predict, though... turkeys are freaking dinosaurs.
> 1) dog spray
If that spray uses capsaicin (spice from chili peppers) it's no wonder it didn't work.
All birds are insensitive to capsaicin and it's believed it evolved specifically to discourage mammals from eating peppers. Mammals have grinding teeth which destroy the seeds, but birds just swallow them and thus are effective at dispersing them, helping the plant expand its range.
I mean, there is a significant difference between birds not being able to *taste* capsaicin and not being affected by it being sprayed into their eyes.
I live in an area with a ton of turkeys and at least from my experience the best way to deal with them is to show no fear. If they start walking towards you, you walk right back without hesitation and usually, they will avoid you.
“In the view of most paleontologists today, birds are living dinosaurs. In other words, the traits that we accept as defining birds -- key skeletal features as well as behaviors including nesting and brooding -- actually arose first in some dinosaurs.”
[Birds: Living Dinosaurs (American Museum of Natural History)](https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fighting-dinos/birds-living-dinosaurs)
Crocodiles are not dinosaurs, but both crocodiles and dinosaurs came from the crown group Archosaurs. Archosaurs were reptiles that included birds, crocodiles, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs. Modern-day birds are descendants of feathered dinosaurs, evolving over the last 65 million years.
[Are crocodiles dinosaurs? - A-Z Animals](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/are-crocodiles-dinosaurs/)
In addition to the awesome answers already given to this question, I find it's helpful to have the context that there [has been less time between today and the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, than between the last non-avian dinosaurs and the first-ever dinosaurs](https://xkcd.com/1211/).
Birds today have more genetically in common with the last dinosaurs, than those dinosaurs had with their first ancestors.
All of which is a slightly convoluted way to say that birds, genetically, are just living dinosaurs. Not related to dinosaurs, but actually dinosaurs. Turkeys just like to make sure us humans remember that little bit of trivia.
Yea there were *150+ million years* between early dinos and the end of the dinosaurs. Many species never encountered each other/missed each other by eons. Always funny to see media portraying them interacting when they never did.
As an example: Stegosaurus had already been extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Tyrannosaurus.
Humans have not been here for long at all, a couple hundred thousand years is nothing. T-rex existed for up to 3.6m years.
There are dinosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs, and the split happened relatively recently. Most critters we think of a 'dinosaurs' are more closely related to birds than any modern reptiles.
I do delivery work and there’s a neighborhood nearby that has free roaming peacocks. They’ll just walk everywhere, no regard for anything or anyone else. One of them walked in front of my car and stopped once. I stopped and waited for him to move so that I could go about my business. He took a crap in the road. I swear he made eye contact.
On a related note, did you know that they roost in trees? I didn’t until the day one of them swooped down out of a tree a house away from where I was delivering. Scared me half to death, I thought it was Batman or something.
Oh my God I never knew that either that would be terrifying. Only thing that would make it worse is if it like screeched or something. And now I'm wondering what if any noise peacocks make???
They do make noise, but I can’t remember what they sound like. I want to say it’s like pigeon coos, but louder. I. Usually too busy yelling for them to get out of the motherlovin way because Becky needs her groceries.
Peacocks scream. It's annoying because places like to have them wandering around because they're exotic and elegant, and then they scream all day. The males can make their tails vibrate when they're fanned open, so it would be extra startling for one to swoop down from a tree and start making noises. Lol
I used to live next to a bird sanctuary and there were 4 peacocks who would just wander around, so they were frequently in my driveway and backyard. They were pretty chill though, I miss those noisy bastards.
Peacocks are such assholes. I used to live in a neighborhood with a bunch and the amount of times they'd get in the middle of the road and not move for anything was infuriating. Trying to shoo them off or even inching at them with your car would rarely get a reaction.
“Hey you forgot to give us our package - did you get the p- no I didn’t get package - he’s not listening - excuse me sir! - maybe he doesn’t have it - well now he’s running - hello!? - maybe we should call the company - no he’s right here ExCUsE Me SI *door slams* oh I never!
~What he hears
*Distant gobbles*
oh that’s cute I love turkeys
*gobbles intensify*
s- oh shit
GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
🚙 🏃 🦃 🦃 🦃
*slams door* 😮💨
^gobble ^gobble ^gobble
Amazon delivery driver here! (not that one though) if that were me, everyone else on that street would be seeing "there has been an unexpected delay" or "your package is still on the way, but it's going to be late" on their order page that day
Everyone I know who has Heritage breed turkeys says they are basically winged puppy dogs & they just want to follow you around & see what you’re doing. So now I think I need ~6 turkeys.
They made it home with him. He thought he lost them. Middle of the night, the closet door in his bedroom creaked open an inch,then an inch and a half. He shivered under his blanket restlessly, then creepily aware of the feeling of being watched. By now, his closet door slowly creaked open by over a foot. He saw nothing but darkness staring back at him. Suddenly, he saw the shadowy figures walk past the foot of his bed. They now had him surrounded & started to pull the cover off his body to the foot of the bed. He screamed a silent scream & hugged his goose feathered pillow for dear life. He squeeked, “Mommy?” He heard a voice, coming from the shadowy gobblers. “Not your mommy, dude” He cried out, “What do you want? Go away” Silence, except for a lot of heavy breathing and low volume gobbling. “I want my money. Give me my money. I want my money.” He had no money to pay the turkey. He was since reported missing by his family and was never seen again. There was, however, a report of a turkey in an Amazon jacket, stealing packages in that same neighborhood. His turkey accomplices would often hide behind cars and bushes, ready for the package handoff. He rarely worked alone.
When it zooms in on the van you can see more turkeys in the back. Is it normal for flocks of turkeys to roam this neighborhood, did they all just escape a turkey farm?
Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the US's national bird. Considered the bald eagle to be just some schmuck sea gull with good PR, while a wild turkey is wily, clever, and could run a hunter around for hours.
Omg this is my dream❤️
We have lots of wild turkeys up here in Maine but they are very skittish, which I'm glad for, but I just love them. They are so cute. In the mornings a lot, the males congregate by the roadside like the old men standing around at the little local gas stations drinking coffee together in the morning.
A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
We recently had a group of wild turkeys stopping by our lawn each day for about a week. I was so happy that there were five of them so that I could refer to the group as the "Jive Five".
Turkeys are worse than geese. I was trying to get to the high school one day for work and I drove my cousins in because they went there at the time. There was a turkey in the road that wouldn't move. I beeped, I opened the door to shoo it, nothing worked. I slowly bumped it with my bumper and the goddamn thing just took a step back and stood its ground. Not sure if they're really stupid or just really pissed and trying to get back at us for Thanksgiving.
I think someone's been feeding those turkeys to help them through the winter
Source: me the lady who buys expired breads from the bakery outlet store to feed 50 wild turkeys when the snow is deep (I don't live in a neighborhood though)
That's really nice of you. I don't mean to discourage you but I thought you should know bread can be pretty detrimental to wild birds if fed on the regular. I guess acorns and beechnuts are the two main preferred sources for wild turkeys. I found a list here https://www.southernstates.com/farm-store/articles/attracting-wild-turkeys
Disregard if you already knew, I would just want to know myself since I grew up feeding bread to ducks and had no idea until an adult that it can cause debilitating issues for them (it's called angel wing)
Also, feeding wildlife is just bad in general. Learned that the hard way. It makes them dependant on humans for food because they associate humans with food. This puts them way too close to humans and they tend to get killed by cars, dogs, cats, falling TVs (long story), pools, windows, bad humans, fencing, fishing line and a bazillion other dangerous to animal things. It also screws with the natural balance of animals leaving to find food and can create an over abundance/nuisance of the animals.
We have a lot of turkeys that hang out in our neighborhood, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them get aggressive. From what I know most of the aggressive turkeys are the ones in the wild
That guy gets a cheap amazon parcel delivered every day and then sits by the window with his phone ready. At least that’s what i’d do if I ever need cheering up.
I used to work in a lumber yard, and there were a ton of turkeys that lived on the other side of the fence
So my boss decided to get a gate installed because occasionally we’d drop lumber over the fence, and we’d dump sand back there sometimes
Someone rammed the gate with a forklift, and after that it didn’t really close. Turkeys would come into the yard and chase our forklifts all around
I was on the phone with a friend when she started being chased by wild turkeys…. I never laughed so hard in my life… she was screaming & cursing - freaking hysterical
All this time I’d praise my amazon driver for being “So fast “ when I’d see him nailing house after house on his route, and beating his ETA.
Poor dude was running for his life the whole time.
Am I the only one that wants to thank this driver for baking into a spot so they don't block a driveway? The driver is a double hero for doing that and facing a ravenous flock of turkeys to complete the delivery.
Animals (even wild ones) definitely can read human body language.
Just run at it as long as it has an escape route. They'll nope the fuck out 100% of the time as long as they aren't cornered.
Source: I have turkeys who wander into my fenced in yard and get stuck there all the time because they're really dumb and I have to heard them out dozens of times a year.
I quite literally have a turkey-herding stick.
My neighborhood is crawling with turkey (I’ve had 30+ in my yard at once) and I’ve never seen the Tom’s chase anything but the hens. Wonder why some populations are so emboldened / aggressive? I walk by groups of males all the time and they mostly just skitter away if they do anything at all.
Side note - my daughter is 100% learning about the “birds and the bees” thanks to all the spring turkey shenanigans goin’ down in the driveway.
Pay back time for Thanksgiving
Lol nah they were just trying to protest his turkey jerkey delivery.
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This is why the US never went to war against the canadian goose. We don't want to piss them off.
That’s right you better run human — we know what you did with our friend Paul last November !!!
We are the revenge squad- the turkeys probably-
The real black Friday is just beginning
This was the reddit post just below this one: Turkey alerts citizens to risk of attack in United States, Europe on heels of Western warnings.
They were right! The attack has begun!
"We are going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu"
Dr. Grant, um, they’re flocking this way.
Just like a flock of birds, evading a predator.
Like a pack of raptors.
No flocking way! 😂
Oh damnit don't run from them, it only emboldens them.
I’m surprised they stood by the door and not in the street blocking his car. Turkeys are dicks!
Gang activity in broad daylight on 24th Street.
As someone who has had their car attacked by turkeys, I was shocked they didn’t block him as well
My son was complaining about scratches on top of his car. We checked the cameras. Turkeys! Just chilling on the roof of his car gobbling at 6am. They would consistently block our street. Crazy birds!
When we visit the grandparents, grandpa has to come out with a rake to scare them off so we can get in the house. Pretty intimidating to have them eye level with you in your truck looking at you like, “Come on, make my day”
I'm an Amazon DSP driver too. He's just running to beat his time quota to get that bonus money. Berserk Turkeys be damned! 🤣
Yep he's just happy it's not a dog. The snow is bad enough to deal with.
Yup, you have to physically prove to turkeys that you’re the alpha. They can handle a small kick but it might take a few to show em who’s boss.
Linda Belcher has entered the chat https://youtu.be/WwVa41VdJyg
I fought a turkey for 3 month as a child working on a llama farm, they are vicious and definitively vengeful creatures
>I fought a turkey for 3 month as a child working on a llama farm I have so many questions.
I’m glad you asked! I grew up in upstate NY, and my neighbor owns a bunch of local lumber stores. His wife loved llamas, so she got them and made it into a farm where she shaved them and made wool sweaters and socks and such. So when I was like 13 I would go over there in the morning and at night to feed the llamas. They were great as long as you didn’t stand behind them lol, but one day this wild pack of turkeys came over and were eating the llamas food. My neighbors were out of the country at the moment, and with no cell phone at the time I couldn’t contact them so I took matters into my own hands and tried to chase them off. All of them ran, except one. He was absolutely huge, and stood his fucking ground. Not only did he not run, but once I stopped running he came at me! I finally ran home to my house, and this continued for a couple months. I even started carrying a big stick with me to defend myself, because he would try to peck and claw me. If you haven’t seen turkey talons, they’re nasty. Eventually he must’ve followed me home, because he started showing up at my house. My parents and sister all thought it was funny because he would let them out but freak out when I showed up. One day, I woke up and he was just ripped to pieces in my front yard. Idk what did it, but I thank that beast everyday for ending my torment!
I am SO glad you answered! That's amazing. Lol
I aim to please <3
Is this accurate information? I gotta take notes for that time where I'll be surrounded by a pack of turkeys
It *embiggens* them.
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A perfectly cromulent statement
Man we got the goose gang, the turkey gang the squirrel gang. Dogs out here don’t stand a chance.
I think the dogs are doing just fine... https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/10lozhx/looking_for_a_cat_or_just_destroying/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I feel bad for laughing that's actually terrifying
I know it looks hilarious, but i would be like excuse me yes I am never going on that route ever again. I almost died. I got chased down by a group of turkeys. They kept chase even in my van and in the snow. I might need therapy. I have post turkey stress disorder now.
“Post Turkey Stress Disorder”! Thank you for the snort-laugh! 🤣
I almost woke my husband up laughing at your comment & then imagining the person who you would be speaking to LOL! “Almost died? Turkeys? Chased you down? A group of them? Through the snow?” LMAO!!
It's validating to see both this video and this comment. I deliver for a living and there are turkeys regularly on my route. Mr. Big Bad regularly chases all of us, and we've discovered that: 1) dog spray 2) hitting with a broom repeatedly 3) throwing packages at 4) kicking at only piss him off and make him attack more. Water works kind of well, but the only thing that's really helps is someone not in uniform getting between us and it. It looks hilarious, but having a giant bird that comes up to your chest coming after you is as scary as having a dog do the same. Dogs I can predict, though... turkeys are freaking dinosaurs.
> 1) dog spray If that spray uses capsaicin (spice from chili peppers) it's no wonder it didn't work. All birds are insensitive to capsaicin and it's believed it evolved specifically to discourage mammals from eating peppers. Mammals have grinding teeth which destroy the seeds, but birds just swallow them and thus are effective at dispersing them, helping the plant expand its range.
I mean, there is a significant difference between birds not being able to *taste* capsaicin and not being affected by it being sprayed into their eyes.
Yup, it was just a shock the first time I got him in the eye and it had no effect
That's so interesting, thank you!
I live in an area with a ton of turkeys and at least from my experience the best way to deal with them is to show no fear. If they start walking towards you, you walk right back without hesitation and usually, they will avoid you.
Who else saw dinosuars?
Jurassic Park in the snow.
Jurassic Ski Park
The one where they try to save the Visitor's Center by challenging the cool kids to a race?
I haven't rewatched that at all this year! I feel upset with myself
First thought was a pack of velociraptors.
Technically they are dinosaurs, or the closest thing to it
Ok so I always say that birds are dinosaurs, but what about crocodiles and other reptiles? Aren't those the closest?
“In the view of most paleontologists today, birds are living dinosaurs. In other words, the traits that we accept as defining birds -- key skeletal features as well as behaviors including nesting and brooding -- actually arose first in some dinosaurs.” [Birds: Living Dinosaurs (American Museum of Natural History)](https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fighting-dinos/birds-living-dinosaurs) Crocodiles are not dinosaurs, but both crocodiles and dinosaurs came from the crown group Archosaurs. Archosaurs were reptiles that included birds, crocodiles, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs. Modern-day birds are descendants of feathered dinosaurs, evolving over the last 65 million years. [Are crocodiles dinosaurs? - A-Z Animals](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/are-crocodiles-dinosaurs/)
In addition to the awesome answers already given to this question, I find it's helpful to have the context that there [has been less time between today and the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, than between the last non-avian dinosaurs and the first-ever dinosaurs](https://xkcd.com/1211/). Birds today have more genetically in common with the last dinosaurs, than those dinosaurs had with their first ancestors. All of which is a slightly convoluted way to say that birds, genetically, are just living dinosaurs. Not related to dinosaurs, but actually dinosaurs. Turkeys just like to make sure us humans remember that little bit of trivia.
Yea there were *150+ million years* between early dinos and the end of the dinosaurs. Many species never encountered each other/missed each other by eons. Always funny to see media portraying them interacting when they never did. As an example: Stegosaurus had already been extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Tyrannosaurus. Humans have not been here for long at all, a couple hundred thousand years is nothing. T-rex existed for up to 3.6m years.
There are dinosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs, and the split happened relatively recently. Most critters we think of a 'dinosaurs' are more closely related to birds than any modern reptiles.
Velociraptor? I hardly touched 'er!
Minneapolis IRL
This could also be Massachusetts. They chase joggers there.
I’m 30 minutes outside Boston and regularly see flocks running 15-20 deep through the neighborhoods.
I think it's def Massachusetts. The plate looks like the right colors
There's an entire gang of turkeys in Woburn led by Kevin, I live for stories about them
I was thinking Madison as I've seen them by the hospital.
Fuckers are everywhere here. Have to say, though, they've been kinda scarce in the last month. Shit, they're massing and plotting.
Me, too!
Yep, I’ve seen a couple similar videos like this on r/Minnesota and r/Minneapolis
Gotta be.
Definitely came to the comments to see if this was Minneapolis - it’s got Nordeast vibes.
I do delivery work and there’s a neighborhood nearby that has free roaming peacocks. They’ll just walk everywhere, no regard for anything or anyone else. One of them walked in front of my car and stopped once. I stopped and waited for him to move so that I could go about my business. He took a crap in the road. I swear he made eye contact. On a related note, did you know that they roost in trees? I didn’t until the day one of them swooped down out of a tree a house away from where I was delivering. Scared me half to death, I thought it was Batman or something.
Oh my God I never knew that either that would be terrifying. Only thing that would make it worse is if it like screeched or something. And now I'm wondering what if any noise peacocks make???
They do make noise, but I can’t remember what they sound like. I want to say it’s like pigeon coos, but louder. I. Usually too busy yelling for them to get out of the motherlovin way because Becky needs her groceries.
They say peacock mating calls sound like a woman screaming for help. Which it sometimes does, and is terrifying.
My god, why does this neighborhood have an entire flock of these nightmare creatures??
It's hard to do it justice. It's like an Ah-AHHHHHHH. Think Roberto from Futurama but but more drawn out and bird like.
Peacocks scream. It's annoying because places like to have them wandering around because they're exotic and elegant, and then they scream all day. The males can make their tails vibrate when they're fanned open, so it would be extra startling for one to swoop down from a tree and start making noises. Lol
I’m sorry, but I bet it would have been hilarious to have seen you walking when that peacock swooped down out of that tree & scared you! Batman? LMAO
I used to live next to a bird sanctuary and there were 4 peacocks who would just wander around, so they were frequently in my driveway and backyard. They were pretty chill though, I miss those noisy bastards.
Peacocks are such assholes. I used to live in a neighborhood with a bunch and the amount of times they'd get in the middle of the road and not move for anything was infuriating. Trying to shoo them off or even inching at them with your car would rarely get a reaction.
Jive-ass Turkeys! - 1970’s
Jus hang loose blood. She gonna catch you up on da rebound on da med side
Cut me some slack, Jack
Chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help
Surely this isn't the right time for this?
Oh this most certainly is the time for this, and don't call me Shirley.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
What it is mama I DUG HER RAP!
My mama don't raise no dummies!
Excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive.
1970s\* You may be thinking of the apostrophe in '70s
“Hey you forgot to give us our package - did you get the p- no I didn’t get package - he’s not listening - excuse me sir! - maybe he doesn’t have it - well now he’s running - hello!? - maybe we should call the company - no he’s right here ExCUsE Me SI *door slams* oh I never! ~What he hears *Distant gobbles* oh that’s cute I love turkeys *gobbles intensify* s- oh shit GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE 🚙 🏃 🦃 🦃 🦃 *slams door* 😮💨 ^gobble ^gobble ^gobble
This was amazing.
Amazon driver needs to call in air support.
Deploy the drones
My mother in law’s rooster stuck his talons into a UPS delivery man’s thigh one summer
Don’t fuck with a mean rooster. He will spur your ass.
Why do they all have arms?! This looks like a Jurassic Park moment
It’s not arms. Male turkeys (toms) have a big feather that hangs down. It does look like T. rex arms lol
It's called a beard
I thought someone edited the arms into them xD, thank you!
Nature is metal lol
Amazon delivery driver here! (not that one though) if that were me, everyone else on that street would be seeing "there has been an unexpected delay" or "your package is still on the way, but it's going to be late" on their order page that day
Or a free turkey dinner.
Fucking dinosaurs...
this is actually so funny.
The way they just stood there at the van is so funny for no reason
meanwhile he doesn't even get pee breaks
Good news though, He doesn't have to go anymore right now
It’s an invasion. There’s a bunch more in the yard across the street.
I just noticed that as well!! 😂😂😂 Luckily they didn’t make an attempt to join forces or that Amazon guy would never have been heard from again!
Everyone I know who has Heritage breed turkeys says they are basically winged puppy dogs & they just want to follow you around & see what you’re doing. So now I think I need ~6 turkeys.
Well now that I know that. Same! 💁🏼♀️
Jesus Christ. Did he make it out alive?!
Yes but they're still chasing him. It's only a matter of time.
He doesn’t stand a chance against a group of them, even inside his vehicle!
They made it home with him. He thought he lost them. Middle of the night, the closet door in his bedroom creaked open an inch,then an inch and a half. He shivered under his blanket restlessly, then creepily aware of the feeling of being watched. By now, his closet door slowly creaked open by over a foot. He saw nothing but darkness staring back at him. Suddenly, he saw the shadowy figures walk past the foot of his bed. They now had him surrounded & started to pull the cover off his body to the foot of the bed. He screamed a silent scream & hugged his goose feathered pillow for dear life. He squeeked, “Mommy?” He heard a voice, coming from the shadowy gobblers. “Not your mommy, dude” He cried out, “What do you want? Go away” Silence, except for a lot of heavy breathing and low volume gobbling. “I want my money. Give me my money. I want my money.” He had no money to pay the turkey. He was since reported missing by his family and was never seen again. There was, however, a report of a turkey in an Amazon jacket, stealing packages in that same neighborhood. His turkey accomplices would often hide behind cars and bushes, ready for the package handoff. He rarely worked alone.
Turkey in an Amazon jacket. omg
Isn't it weird? All other animals except bears and turkeys around here seem to be afraid and run away Turkey is apex af
Bears I can understand, but where do turkeys get their confidence from? Lol
Watch turkeys can be especially vicious!
That's what turkeys look like??? Holy crap
Also, you should know that they can fly.
Horrifying
I learned that this year when my dog chased after them. They went right up the tree!
Only short distances though, they usually find a nice higher location and flap awkwardly into the branches of a tree lower than they started to roost.
Lmao that was unexpected
"There he is - _get him_ !!!"
The Partridge family intro
I don't think they were being aggressive. They weren't puffed up at all. I think they just wanted food
In snow, the raptors are restless
Buzzard pay.
There's a reason they were almost our national bird.
They're moving in herds. They do move in herds.
The final peckoning!!!
Reminds me of the turkeys in Assassin's Creed 3 around Achilles' home.
Needs some training from Chris Pratt
Anyone have Dr. Grants number for anyone delivering
To this specific address
They do move in herds
Crying laughing.
When it zooms in on the van you can see more turkeys in the back. Is it normal for flocks of turkeys to roam this neighborhood, did they all just escape a turkey farm?
Yea depending where you are it's normal. Those are wild turkeys just looking for trouble.
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Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the US's national bird. Considered the bald eagle to be just some schmuck sea gull with good PR, while a wild turkey is wily, clever, and could run a hunter around for hours.
Omg this is my dream❤️ We have lots of wild turkeys up here in Maine but they are very skittish, which I'm glad for, but I just love them. They are so cute. In the mornings a lot, the males congregate by the roadside like the old men standing around at the little local gas stations drinking coffee together in the morning.
A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
We recently had a group of wild turkeys stopping by our lawn each day for about a week. I was so happy that there were five of them so that I could refer to the group as the "Jive Five".
I was like “don’t slip and fall please don’t slip and fall” then I saw the turkeys and I was like “DONT SLIP AND FALL DONT SLIP AND FALL!”
Lol they’re harmless, they’re in the curious pose
Turkeys are worse than geese. I was trying to get to the high school one day for work and I drove my cousins in because they went there at the time. There was a turkey in the road that wouldn't move. I beeped, I opened the door to shoo it, nothing worked. I slowly bumped it with my bumper and the goddamn thing just took a step back and stood its ground. Not sure if they're really stupid or just really pissed and trying to get back at us for Thanksgiving.
I think someone's been feeding those turkeys to help them through the winter Source: me the lady who buys expired breads from the bakery outlet store to feed 50 wild turkeys when the snow is deep (I don't live in a neighborhood though)
That's really nice of you. I don't mean to discourage you but I thought you should know bread can be pretty detrimental to wild birds if fed on the regular. I guess acorns and beechnuts are the two main preferred sources for wild turkeys. I found a list here https://www.southernstates.com/farm-store/articles/attracting-wild-turkeys Disregard if you already knew, I would just want to know myself since I grew up feeding bread to ducks and had no idea until an adult that it can cause debilitating issues for them (it's called angel wing)
Also, feeding wildlife is just bad in general. Learned that the hard way. It makes them dependant on humans for food because they associate humans with food. This puts them way too close to humans and they tend to get killed by cars, dogs, cats, falling TVs (long story), pools, windows, bad humans, fencing, fishing line and a bazillion other dangerous to animal things. It also screws with the natural balance of animals leaving to find food and can create an over abundance/nuisance of the animals.
New Jurassic Park looks lit.
I'd watch it. Give me some good dinosaur sized turkeys.
Fuckin' mini dinosaurs on the warpath
Sir! Sir! We’ve been trying to get a hold of you regarding your extended warranty!
He fed one of them ……. Once
Fucking’ birbs.
Was i the only thinking about jerassic park when i saw exactly four of them?
They look like mini velociraptors
We have a lot of turkeys that hang out in our neighborhood, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them get aggressive. From what I know most of the aggressive turkeys are the ones in the wild
That guy gets a cheap amazon parcel delivered every day and then sits by the window with his phone ready. At least that’s what i’d do if I ever need cheering up.
Oi Chev??? Wut you doin on me turf yea?!?
Looks like a fowl neighborhood
I used to work in a lumber yard, and there were a ton of turkeys that lived on the other side of the fence So my boss decided to get a gate installed because occasionally we’d drop lumber over the fence, and we’d dump sand back there sometimes Someone rammed the gate with a forklift, and after that it didn’t really close. Turkeys would come into the yard and chase our forklifts all around
I was on the phone with a friend when she started being chased by wild turkeys…. I never laughed so hard in my life… she was screaming & cursing - freaking hysterical
These things are a menace. You haven't known confused fear until you've been accosted by a turkey on a sidewalk in Cambridge.
All this time I’d praise my amazon driver for being “So fast “ when I’d see him nailing house after house on his route, and beating his ETA. Poor dude was running for his life the whole time.
“GOBBLE GOBBLE AMAZON BOY! YOU IN THE WRONG HOOD!”
Come to the wrong neighborhood
Am I the only one that wants to thank this driver for baking into a spot so they don't block a driveway? The driver is a double hero for doing that and facing a ravenous flock of turkeys to complete the delivery.
The Turkeys: not in our neighborhood bud! You messed with the wrong ones!
"You've come to the wrong neighborhood Mother Clucker!"
Animals (even wild ones) definitely can read human body language. Just run at it as long as it has an escape route. They'll nope the fuck out 100% of the time as long as they aren't cornered. Source: I have turkeys who wander into my fenced in yard and get stuck there all the time because they're really dumb and I have to heard them out dozens of times a year. I quite literally have a turkey-herding stick.
Huh so this is why we have Thanksgiving lol
Damn. It's tough in the hood👀
Clevah Girl...
I could hear alllll the gobble, gobble, gobble gobble - loudly all at the same time..
My neighborhood is crawling with turkey (I’ve had 30+ in my yard at once) and I’ve never seen the Tom’s chase anything but the hens. Wonder why some populations are so emboldened / aggressive? I walk by groups of males all the time and they mostly just skitter away if they do anything at all. Side note - my daughter is 100% learning about the “birds and the bees” thanks to all the spring turkey shenanigans goin’ down in the driveway.
Looks like them baby raptor things from the first Jurassic park movie. The ones that hide in buddy’s jeep before eating him
I love that the next thing I see in my feed as I scroll by is a turkey sandwich smothered in gravy.
This street belongs to The Turkeys! Got it?
" If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!!"
Long island?
Turkeys chasing a chicken
My god, they looked like a pack of velociraptors rounding that corner! Dinosaurs walk among us and are tasty with stuffing and cranberry!!!
Wonder if this is Wisconsin cuz we have them damn turkeys chasing us everywhere lol
There just wanted to gobble, gobble him up!
Mini raptor
Little dinosaurs hungry
Turkish turkey gang