SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California wildlife authorities and the U.S. Postal Service are investigating reports that a mail carrier beat a wild turkey to death in Sacramento County.
The alleged incident happened Monday near Morse Avenue and Bonita Drive, in the Creekside residential neighborhood in Arden Arcade.
Witnesses wrote in posts on the social media app Nextdoor that a mail carrier, after being accosted by a particularly aggressive turkey, retrieved a pole or stick from his vehicle and used it to fatally beat the bird.
