Frightened sheeple Bit on the Tush need non gun defense

[Cougfan2]

I imagine if you punted it like a football and put your back into it it might discourage further attacks.

WiryIrishman You brought a childhood memory back. I was visiting my cousin on the farm one Summer and was helping him gather eggs. I was a little scared to walk through the barnyard because the roosters were very territorial and would try to spur you if you got to close. My cousin told me "just kick it away if it comes up to you". I REALLY took this to heart and then punted the next rooster that came up to me about 20 yds. It came down dead as a hammer.

Saw my Uncle Leonard out in the barnyard later looking down and the dead rooster muttering to himself "Wonder what happened to this rooster?".

Then there was the time they told me they wanted me to go get a chicken for supper but I had to shoot it in the head so as not to ruin any meet. You can picture the results........bob head, bang, bob head, bang, etc. I looked back and my Dad and Uncle were practically rolling on the ground laughing.

 

[amper]

A 20 pound bird is running at me.... why not just kick it?

You ever kick a 20-pound *anything*? You'd stand a good chance of an injury.

On the other hand, if you hurt or killed the turkey, you'd probably be arrested for hunting out of season.

 

[Eyesac]

Here's a pic from Davis CA (my parents home). Turkey roam wild. I'm thinking of going down there w/ a golf club and doing it right...

 

[ilbob]

the local JC actually pays some guy with a couple of border collies to chase the geese away from the buildings. he has to have a special license because it is illegal to chase geese without some kind of license.

they also have a license to pour oil on the eggs the geese lay. supposedly this keeps the little geesers from hatching. not allowed to just squash the eggs though. thats apparently illegal, too.

if the geese are not chased away from the buildings by the dogs, they get aggressive with the students. they also make a big mess.

I see turkeys near a local state park pretty regularly on my way to and from work. Sometimes they herd up and there are 15 or 30 of them together. Usually just a couple, or a lone turkey.

 

[Gustav]

LOL RKBABob love the pics.

Seriously turkeys vs man what a joke a nip or peck isn't going to seriously harm anyone, heck 5 year olds kids get pecked every day in petting zoos and on farms.

With thanksgiving coming up a large overcoat and good pair of gloves might be in order.

 

[Macpherson]

I imagine if you punted it like a football and put your back into it it might discourage further attacks.

+1 to that

Most small dogs and even some house cats can weigh 20lbs, turkeys are 90% feathers. Just wind up and put it through the uprights

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

ugh...it's called hunting. It controls the population.

 

[Cougfan2]

With thanksgiving coming up a large overcoat and good pair of gloves might be in order.

Why does that sound strangely perverted to me. You're scaring me Gustav.

 

[damien]

not allowed to just squash the eggs though. thats apparently illegal, too.

I don't think it's illegal, it just isn't the right tactic. If you squash the egg, the goose knows the egg is dead (they are at least that smart) and will make more. Oiling them kills the egg but the goose is no wiser so they do all the work they would normally do to get a few goslings to hatch but, surprise, the eggs never hatch and then it is too late in the season for the birds to try again.

 

[BlackBearME]

Yeah, as JAB said, we're seeing quite the upswing in turkeys in this area, so much so that they've opened up turkey hunting to springtime as well, with shotguns (yay!).

Of course, projectile weapons are probably out in the city,unless we're talking about zombie hordes (in which case, you've probably got bigger problems.)

My vote is for a collapsible baton. Failing that, even a 3/4" piece of oak, 18-24" long; or hell, as Eyesac said, even a golf club should act as a pretty good deterrent.

 

[Halo is for Kids]

This seems fitting:

http://www.comedycentral.com/mother...l_video=24881&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true

 

[Baron357]

Socialism at work! Boston and the surrounding area have become a population of helpless subjects of the MA government.

"Police help there are turkey in my yard!"

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

You ever kick a 20-pound *anything*? You'd stand a good chance of an injury

I thought about that. After weighing the mass of turkey versus the inherent squishiness of any small, meat-based object, I figured it wouldn't be too bad.

 

[trueblue1776]

I've kicked guys as big as me, and I've never hurt myself.

 

[lucky_fool]

Brookline postal carrier Rosanne Lane said she has skipped houses on her mail route because turkeys dissuaded her from approaching.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But turkeys? That's another thing altogether.

 

[rdhood]

A woman hides inside a store afraid of a turkey? Isn't that like the mouse chasing the cat?

It is mind boggling that people forget where food comes from, or where humans are in the food chain. Instead of seeing dinner and a week's worth of leftovers, they see daemons.

They need to rent a 12 year old kid with slingshot and a bag of marbles, and send him downtown to put a little timidity in those turkeys.

 

[RLsnow]

damn they are lucky, i would love to get chased down the street by turkeys

 

[sully0812]

Notify the neighbors: The turkeys are spreading through suburbia. Wild turkeys, once eliminated in Massachusetts, are flourishing from Plymouth to Concord and - to the surprise of some wildlife officials - making forays into densely populated suburban and urban areas, including parts of Boston, Cambridge and, most recently, Brookline.

Shoot, I grew up in NH, and I could have told you years ago that massachusettes was being overrun by turkeys.

The birds on the other hand, are a different story.

 

[Seancass]

i have never seen Season Shot, this is the greatest invention i have ever heard of!

 

[SoCalShooter]

re: Crunker1337

Its really common sense, get a stick bash one over the head and take it to the butcher.

And I am not country folk either, I am pretty sure I would be considered a city slicker, but I know how to deal with snakes, varmints and other unwanted creatures. If they are ferrel they will most likely just run away from you anyways so they could try a fog horn or a mega phone to scare them off. Theres a lot of ways to deal with them. Most of them are common sense and trial and error sort of.

 

[Tyris]

WiryIrishman You brought a childhood memory back. I was visiting my cousin on the farm one Summer and was helping him gather eggs. I was a little scared to walk through the barnyard because the roosters were very territorial and would try to spur you if you got to close. My cousin told me "just kick it away if it comes up to you". I REALLY took this to heart and then punted the next rooster that came up to me about 20 yds. It came down dead as a hammer.

Cougfan2, thanks for the good laugh. You've brightened my afternoon

-T

 

[Crunker1337]

It just occurred to me that injuring or killing a turkey, even if it's being a pain in the butt, could get you nabbed with an animal cruelty charge. Crazy, I know, but I heard about a guy getting nabbed just for killing a seagull that was stealing loads of his food.

I think it would be best to stand your ground, appear big and menacing, and then pin its head down with your foot.

PS: Thanks for the laugh CougarFan2

 

[TallPine]

I can't believe those turkeys are afraid of turkeys

 

[Cougfan2]

Tyris/Crunker Just drop me a line if you want to learn the finer points of rooster punting! I wear a shoe, but there are some that prefer the barefoot soccer style approach.

 

[Dustinthewind]

Turkey beaks hurt! How do I know? you ask, I have personaly been accosted by a heard of wild Turkey's! Fish and Game introduced Turkeys here a number of years ago and they have done well. It is not uncommon to see groups of turkeys numbering into the hundreds. The problem is that the people living in the suburbs began feeding these pests and now they are about half domesticated and are unafraid of humans. I have had as many as thirty roosting on my roof and I had to quit doing outdoor lights during Christmas because the Turkey's tore the lighs down daily. If you live around Hutchinson Ks. and want to hunt them P.M. me.