Video: Wild Turkey Takes on a Mail Truck

Candice Gaukel Andrews Mar 3, 2011

Typically, a dog is the animal a mail carrier has to worry about most while doing his or her job. Not so in Centerville, Massachusetts.

It’s a wild turkey this intrepid driver has to watch out for. The bird has been attacking the U.S. Postal Service recently, and Eric Williams caught it all on camera for the Cape Cod Times.

Wild turkeys can be found in 49 states; Alaska is the only U.S. state without them. Perhaps this particular East Coast one found out his check truly wasn’t in the mail?

Here’s to finding your true places and natural habitats,

Candy

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