This city can eat you up – especially if you’re a turkey. A wild turkey spotted all over the Big Apple has left the bustle of Midtown Manhattan for the relative quiet of Roosevelt Island – only to face stone-throwing hooligans and kids armed with water pistols. The turkey was previously known as “Astoria” but recently dubbed “Rosie” after her move some time in mid-May to Roosevelt Island, where the local celebrity has gobbled up mostly positive attention.
“I think it’s beautiful. For the turkey to come here, that means it found some sort of tranquility in the community,” 50-year-old Roosevelt islander Romano Reid told The Post. “For it to come here, it means it has something it likes.
It’s not in Astoria. It’s not in the Upper East Side.” But Rosie soon found out the hard way that life in the city ain’t always easy.
Kids have reportedly been witnessed tossing stones at the bird, according to the Roosevelt Islander blog , while others have allegedly been seen spraying her with water pistols. “Relax man, it’s just a turkey,” the father of one of the young attackers told a witness who stepped in to defend the animal, the Roosevelt Islander reported. “They couldn’t understand why I would stand up for a living creature,” the witness said.
Friends of the feathered phenom, however, have resoundingly agreed that they wouldn’t stand for any turkey abuse. “They’re throwing rocks. Unbelievably terrible.
We love the turkey. We look for the .
