A Wild Turkey Is Attacking People in D.C. Multiple Agencies Are in Pursuit.

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7. I don't know what is going on around here but

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the turkeys are out of freakin’ control! I’m about an hour NW of DC. Noticed an uptick in population last year and it’s only grown since then. Exponentially.

My yard and surrounding woods are chock full of them. The gobbling noises are continuous and fantastic. I’ve had several close encounters while driving- those bastards are BIG and they always seem to fly right at windshield height. I even told my boss a few weeks ago, “If I die on the way to work, it was the damn turkeys.”

There must a predator missing?? (Edit: google tells me the cicadas were good for the moms and babies. More eggs, less poult deaths = Turkey Explosion. Yay.) I mean, we’ve always had turkeys, but not a apocalyptic plague of turkeys. At least my local ones haven’t started attacking anything other than cars... yet. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen my neighbor in a while. Hmmm.

I do enjoy them and they bring me much joy and amusement, but damn. They need to whoa up a little bit.