Neighbor caught the local UPS driver running for his life — the culprits were not what anyone expected
Hindy was perplexed when she looked out of her window, expecting a 'fight'
The greatest dramas unfold in everyday life, and one woman found herself in the right place to capture one of them. In a TikTok video, a woman named Hindy (@hindy007) captured footage of a UPS driver running to and fro from her neighbor's house to his van. As she panned the camera around, one could see an unbelievable duo chasing him down the road. They seemed to be stalking him wherever he went, including his van, from where they barely moved. The video has been watched more than 37 million times, with viewers calling it one of the most hilarious videos they have ever seen.
A job site or a battleground?
“I thought someone was fighting outside. It’s just the UPS man fighting for his life from the turkeys,” Hindy wrote in the video’s overlay caption. The 1-minute 9-second footage opens with a man raucously running on the road. He stops briefly at a house's stairway and tosses their package on the porch, only to run again and jump inside his van. As the camera pans around to follow his movement, it reveals these two black-and-white turkeys springing around the van, their heads tilted up, ready to grab him. “You better back up,” he yells from inside, “I'm 40 years old. I can't deal with this.”
Two unfazed stalkers
While they wait for him to come out, the man cleverly hops down from the other side and starts running towards another house. The birds follow him. “What do y'all want?” he shrieks at them while dashing up another stairway. There too, he quickly drops another package and sprints back to his van, screaming “Deuces, arghh” along the way.
Some potential for harm
Although the possibility of severe injury is rare, turkeys can indeed be harmful to humans. A report by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts suggested that these birds have a tendency to become aggressive and start chasing humans when they become overly comfortable with them. The turkeys may begin to treat passing humans as their competition and seek to dominate them. “Adult gobblers can be a little aggressive, and then we have subadults, the first-year males, which are called jakes. They tend to run in gangs,” Tim Evans, director of land conservation at Audubon South Carolina, shared with the National Audubon Society. “They will get really aggressive,” Evans added.
National Geographic says there are about 7 million wild turkeys in urban America, and they are pretty adaptable to urban environments. As long as they get trees for roosting, they can survive in urban environments, and once they become comfortable, they start becoming territorial, acting obnoxiously towards humans in the area.
What are viewers saying?
@tobytoebeans said, “They are wild turkeys native to North America, and they can be territorial.” Others joked that the video could become a fantastic commercial for promoting UPS’ services. @chrystalmarie29 wrote, “This man needs to be paid for a commercial promoting UPS.” Another mimicked the theme and said, “Even wild turkeys won’t stop us from delivering!” @glasgowbear mocked a tagline, “Your package has been delivered under sheer panic and terror.” @weatherchannel said, “How UPS is moving even in the snow!”
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