Mail Job’s Thankless Due to Wild Turkey
Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night kept a Newton mail carrier from his rounds--it was a wild turkey.
“He’s a big one, bigger than any dog that’s chased me,” said U.S. postal carrier Tim Hoban.
The 5-foot-9, 150-pound Hoban said the 4-foot-6, 30-pound bird has been in the area for about a year. “But about a month ago, he started chasing me. He sees me, hunches up his back, spreads his wings, goes gobble, gobble and charges right at me,” said Hoban, 39.
Hoban’s supervisors said he did not have to deliver mail to about 20 homes in the area.
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