Wild turkey Gladis terrorizes Minnesota neighborhood, forcing residents to carry GUNS
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A Minnesota turkey has been terrorizing a neighborhood for more than a year, prompting residents to carry makeshift weapons for protection.
Rachel Gross, 41, of Coon Rapids, never knows what to expect when she leaves her house, but she always carries a broom, water bottle and golf club as a precaution after the large bird perched on her roof hit her. up in 2021. .
Appearing at the trailer park just before Thanksgiving that year, Gladys appears to be taking revenge on her ancestors with a little game of birds.
When she turns blue in the face, the residents know it’s time to run, as she has gone into “attack mode” and will do almost anything to peck at terrified victims.
Miss Gladys drew blood, pecked tires, attacked cats and even took a ride to Chipotle in the back of Gross’s husband’s truck.
‘This turkey attacks me every day, [it] follow me,’ said Gross CNN. ‘The kids who walk to the bus stop every morning, I have to go out and help them, but now they’re smart and they carry sticks.’
‘He’s here 24/7. He thinks I’m his mom or something,’ Gross told the Washington Post.
Rachel Gross, 41, of Coon Rapids, (pictured) never knows what to expect when she leaves her house, but she always takes “my broom, my water bottle and my golf club everywhere with me.”
Gladys the Turkey showed up just before Thanksgiving in 2021 and hasn’t left the neighborhood alone since
Emily Ahlsten, who also lives nearby, is worried about her one-year-old granddaughter who has just moved in with her.
“I’m afraid to even take her outside,” Ahlsten told CNN. “Especially when the weather is nice, you know, we can’t have people over, we can’t have a barbecue.”
The neighborhood has done everything possible to get Gladys to leave them alone, from calling the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the police to removing the bird feeders.
Gross and Ahlsten said they don’t want to harm the turkey, but want it to trot off to a new home.
“I just wish they would relocate him to a place where he can live with other turkeys and be happier and not be a nuisance to people or potentially hurt someone,” Ahlsten told CNN.
Gross agreed, saying Gladys is “alone and I feel bad, but why can’t they just relocate this bird?” Please, she begged.
She has been dealing with the unusual plague since 2021, when it fell from her roof, forcing her to the ground when she returned home from shopping.
He claimed the beast ripped off his jacket, scattered his carton of eggs, coffee and other items across the lawn.
Since then, he has repeatedly asked wildlife authorities to come find the bird and relocate it, but told the Washington Post they have so far refused to do so.
“I can’t even have peace,” he said. “I’m pretty stressed and pretty anxious all the time.”
Gross (left) and Emily Ahlsten (right), both with brooms, worry about the neighborhood children, who have since carried sticks to the bus stop to fend off the wild beast. Ahlsten’s one-year-old granddaughter has just moved in with her and she is afraid to take her out of it because of Gladys
Gladys pecks tires, chases the residents and menacingly gobbles them up
You think he wants a chicken burrito bowl? Gladys even rode in the back of Gross’s husband’s truck (pictured) to Chipotle while she made a new home for herself on her property.
He even chased Gross around his car as the terrified woman sprayed water on him, but he didn’t flinch.
Gross has captured several videos of the turkey’s terrors, from the moment she was trapped in her house while Gladys stood intimidatingly outside her front door, to the moment she didn’t flinch when she sprayed him in the face with water. .
‘Get! Somebody help me, somebody help me! she can be heard screaming in one of the videos.
In another video, she showed the turkey starting to stalk her as she nervously said, ‘Walk away, don’t! Get away, get away, get away! If I let him get close, my God, he’s going to attack me. I have to get my shovel.
Gross continued to back up the front steps as she yelled at her new neighbor, who simply gobbled her up at the bottom of the stairs.
Despite the daily terror the bird provides her, Gross said she has seen corn scattered around the neighborhood, which leads her to think someone is feeding Gladys.
He also drew blood and harmed other residents, even knocking Groom to the ground and ripping off his jacket when he first arrived.
Gladys has disrupted neighborhood life for more than a year, canceling Halloween in 2021, forcing residents to cancel summer parties and cookouts, and leaving visitors afraid to go near their relatives’ homes.
“I’m so exhausted,” Gross told the Post. “I hope this gets fixed and someone comes to help so I don’t have to deal with this anymore.”
All Gross wants is a “peaceful summer” where she and her relatives can “have a barbecue and just relax.”
However, DNR wildlife manager Scott Noland told the Washington Post that simply removing the turkey is not easy and is a last resort.
“We don’t want to do it right away in situations like this,” he told the Post.
When wildlife officials have to go in and remove a turkey because it is harming people, they often end up killing the bird and serving it up for food.
Since the residents of Coon Rapids don’t want to kill the bird, they may have to make room for chaos in the neighborhood.