Always good to watch the backside especially now that wild turkeys are roaming the streets of Boston. Was just on my way out this morning when I read this in The Boston Globe—
“On a recent afternoon, 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.”
Apparently some thirty years ago an effort was made to restore the wild turkey population in the western part of Massachusetts which is all rural. Once there was a good flock of these turkeys a few wise officials gathered some up to scatter them about the state where they bred happily and walked into town. It appears that they really, really like the urban thing and you can see from this fellow that he looks pretty dapper strolling down Commonwealth Avenue.
One woman apparently found eighteen of them in her garden. Someone else called the police to let them know a turkey ‘half the size of an elephant’ was walking down the street.
This is when it pays to wear specs. No need to be embarrassed when you make a dash for the optician’s shop.
I like the turkey attitude. This guy looks like he owns the street—and he’s just arrived in town! The poor dude has no idea that Thanksgiving’s just around the corner. Though if things keep going the way they are he might just be sitting down to count his blessings as he feasts on a roasted woman in specs with all the trimmings. Hmmm.
