'Freaked out' Staten Islander chased by furious turkey in wild driveway showdown caught on camera
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Talk about fowl play.

A Staten Island resident experienced an unexpected encounter when an assertive turkey pursued him around his driveway in a chaotic scene that was captured on video.

Noel Colon had just left his home and was on his way to work when the persistent bird appeared from behind and vigorously chased him to his vehicle, according to the Staten Island Advance.


A Staten Island man found himself in a wild fowl confrontation when a feisty turkey chased him around his driveway in a bird-brained showdown caught on camera.
A Staten Island man found himself in a wild fowl confrontation when a feisty turkey chased him around his driveway in a bird-brained showdown caught on camera. Courtesy Noel Colon

“Oh s–t,” a frenzied Colon could be heard saying in the chaotic home surveillance footage.

Believing he had escaped the determined turkey after it disappeared from view, the Grasmere local opened the driver’s side door of his white Ford SUV — only to find the feathered aggressor right there.

The berserk gobbler continued flapping after Colon, who was seen frantically sprinting around his driveway screaming expletives, while wearing a backpack and carrying a shopping bag and what appeared to be a large wrapped gift.

The National Grid worker, who eventually managed to jump into his truck and drive away, said the crazed encounter nearly gave him a “heart attack.”

“I’m usually never afraid with anything that happens in life,” he told the local outlet.

“I just got with the flow. But that was something that was just completely, completely unexpected and I was freaked out. I was concerned with just getting to work on time.”


The Grasmere man, thinking he was in the clear after losing sight of the angry bird, opened his driver's side door of his white Ford SUV -- only for the beaked bully to pop up right behind it.
The Grasmere man, thinking he was in the clear after losing sight of the angry bird, opened his driver’s side door of his white Ford SUV — only for the beaked bully to pop up right behind it. Courtesy Noel Colon

Colon said he initially tried to avoid disturbing the turkey when he spotted it on his walkway, but things went sideways when the feathered fiend let out a noise and charged at him.

He later found 11 eggs near where the crazed chase unfolded and realized his avian attacker was likely protecting its unborn poults.

“They turkey, she comes back every morning around 6:30 until like 7:30 a.m. and she hangs out there in the morning,” Colon told the outlet.

“So I didn’t want to move the eggs, because that’s hers. Now, when I see a turkey, I walk across the street.”

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