Turkeys chase mail carrier throughout his route

HYANNIS, Mass. (WHDH) - One mail carrier in Massachusetts will never look at turkeys the same way again after a flock of them came after him while he was doing his job.

The entire confrontation was caught on home security video.

A trio of turkeys accosted mail carrier Wayne White on his postal route Friday afternoon in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

“I’ve come close with dogs. I do a lot of stuff on Nantucket, so I see deer all the time, but this is my first time with turkeys,” White said.

From the moment he stepped out of his delivery truck, White could be heard yelling at the birds to get away.

However, neither snow, nor rain - nor turkeys, apparently - would stop the mailman from making his delivery.

He made his way to this house using the package he was carrying for defense.

“Once I got out, they came after me. You saw me defending with the boxes and whatnot,” White said. “And then when I get to the step, it’s like, OK, here we are. We’ve got to get back and make a run for it.”

Wayne said the turkeys wouldn’t give up following him as he made several stops.

“Every time I moved the truck, turkeys followed,” White said.

And this fearless flock was still not backing down: the trio even chased WHDH reporter John Araujo in the very same neighborhood as he reported the story.

But White eventually made it back to his truck and now has quite the story to tell.

“All day long it’s been ‘gobble gobble’ texts and turkey texts, and I can’t imagine what Thanksgiving is going to be like this year,” he said.