Turkeys Strike Back!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And to honor this fine tradition, we bring you a story of turkeys gone wild....

They're in Melrose...
"Now we've got two more sets of them in town. They've been well-behaved, but they can also be dangerous. They're not at all afraid of people. You beep your horn at them, and they stand there like, 'What are you going to do now?' "

And Boston...

The turkeys' distinctive red forms have recently been spotted strolling through the tony Boston neighborhood of Back Bay and strutting in the vicinity of Fenway Park. Two summers ago, an academically inclined turkey took up residence in Cambridge's Kendall Square, home to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And even Westwood!

In Westwood, southwest of Boston, town officials considered passing a bylaw banning residents from feeding turkeys after reports that one neighborhood, where someone left food for the birds, had been overrun by 50 or more.
"In the end, we just went to the person and said they had to stop feeding them or else they would never go away," said Nancy Hyde, a town official. "So far, it seems to have worked. Maybe they won't come back."

Nancy Hyde is the town selectman(woman?) and I teach two of her great kids. You go Nancy!

You go Turkeys!

Happy Thanksgiving!