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Vicious turkeys ruffle Brookline resident's feathers
By adamg on Fri, 09/11/2015 - 11:26am
Wicked Local Brookline (of course) reports a resident called 911 to report "vicious turkeys" on Lancaster Terrace near Beacon Street and that she "wanted them removed from Brookline."
Also check out the 911 calls about people pooping in buckets along the Muddy River and a woman who suspiciously tied some balloons to a parking meter.
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send 'em to the blue Hills to hunt down deer.
One percenter problems
It's nice that in Brookline people have time to monitor all this minor junk and even more time to call it in the police. They are like the nervous aunt who plugs her ears when anything louder than Lawrence Welk comes on the radio.
Well
It is their prerogative to address things that concern them. That those concerns dont involve starving to death or whatever other dramatic issue you would wish on them is moot.
Why is it always Brookline?
I somehow sincerely doubt that their turkeys are any different from those in other communities where the birds parade around in groups here, there, and everywhere.
I seem to remember that they had "special Brookline problems" with the local coyotes that nobody else seems to have, too.
Brookline fowl
are uppity and impertinent. They need to be put in their place....which is across town line in Boston.
Recently we saw....
... a gang of at least 14 turkeys at Showa Boston (just across the street from Brookline). Biggest group we've seen so far. Maybe they are preparing to mobilize in Brookline in full force. I wouldn't blame them in the least.
Because Brookline is full of
Because Brookline is full of people who don't work, either because they inherited money, their "job" is parent, or they are old. They have too much time on their hands and aren't used to working so they complain to others instead of solving real problems themselves.
How long have you been a parent?
I get the gist of what you are saying - people are around more during the day - but this is rather ignorant. Being a parent is a job. Some people share the work with paid caregivers, but it is still very time intensive and most stay at home parents are pulling the equivalent of sixty hour a week "shifts" while their partners work.
"Rather ignorant" is an understatement
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As opposed to Uhubbers...
...Who think ad hominem attacks on neighboring communities are the height of intellectual wit.
If I could +100, I would
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I have only been chased by Turkeys once..
..on Kent Street in Brookline about 6 years ago; followed me right up on my stoop; I finally whispered to them for mercy and they complied. Then they went out on Longwood Ave and pecked at cars for fun. they have been up to something for a while.
Muddy River
'A caller reported seeing street people near the Muddy River using plastic buckets to poop and then throwing it in the river. She said she’s seen these people camping under the bridge.'
I guess now we know why it's called the Muddy River.
Dear vicious woman near the
Dear vicious woman near the corner of Lancaster Terrace and Beacon Street,
We are not happy about you and want you removed from Brookline.
We will never cease our eternal struggle for the rightful liberation of our ancestral homeland,
-Turkey Liberation Front
fight the good fight
We support you, Comrade Turkey!
Charlatan!
Pay no mind to my erstwhile comrade's incoherent gibbering. We, the Liberation Front of Turkeys, have the only TRUE plan for turkey liberation. Never you mind the details, but rest assured, Brookline Police Department, that your day will come. No golf course is safe, no doddering old woman will be spared our merciless wrath.
-Liberation Front of Turkeys
Toms, Hens, brothers &
Toms, Hens, brothers & sisters, as part of the great rafter of Meleagris Gallopavo if we cannot work together then we all shall roast alone!
I wonder why she thought they were vicious
Seriously. I think people add that adjective simply to add effect and make it seem like an important matter. Turkeys - OK. Vicious turkeys - get rid of 'em.
We get a lot of reports like this out here in I-495 land: "Person reported a raccoon in their yard, possibly rabid". I have no idea why they think it's rabid, but only say it to get attention. Funny, nobody says anything about the turkeys out here, and they are a daily encounter.
Because
Out there they don't attack you while you walk a mile to your house/apartment. Or at least based on my anecdotal experience on my family's farm out there, they dont.
We had a flock that lived in our front yard and they never bothered me, but i have no doubt the ones in brookline- far more used to people- are more aggressive.
Sheesh.
a) they have hollow bones.
b) they are tasty.
I've lived in about every
I've lived in about every neighborhood in Boston over the years. People often had comments like "is it safe?" when I told them I lived in Allston, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Roslindale. But once, about 10 years ago, I told someone that I lived in Brookline, and she got very serious.
"Oh," she said.
"What?" I said.
"I've heard about that."
"What!?"
"The turkeys. In Brookline."
"Um ... they're not so bad!"
"The turkeys that hang out by the 7-11 ..."
"Oh, yeah. Those turkeys."
Look, these birds have had a reputation for a long time!
We get turkeys in Arlington Heights all the time
Some of them are aggressive, too.
But, if you really want your Thanksgiving dinner early, go out the Minuteman Bikeway just past 128. Lots of them living in Topher Swamp.