Police bodycam footage often shows tragic or shocking situations. That wasn’t the case for a recent scenario in Wausau, Wisconsin, when police officers went on a wild turkey chase.”Somehow, it got through that second-story window and broke the glass,” Officer Benjamin Thumann said. Thumann suited up with gloves and a net and tried to contain the turkey, which was flapping around an unoccupied apartment. The chase moved from the living room to the kitchen to a bedroom. It wasn’t the police department’s first encounter with a suspect that was not human.Last year, officers had to eject a deer from a nursing home. Watch the video above to see how officers successfully got the turkey out of the building.
Police bodycam footage often shows tragic or shocking situations.
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That wasn’t the case for a recent scenario in Wausau, Wisconsin, when police officers went on a wild turkey chase.
“Somehow, it got through that second-story window and broke the glass,” Officer Benjamin Thumann said.
Thumann suited up with gloves and a net and tried to contain the turkey, which was flapping around an unoccupied apartment.
The chase moved from the living room to the kitchen to a bedroom.
It wasn’t the police department’s first encounter with a suspect that was not human.
Last year, officers had to eject a deer from a nursing home.
Watch the video above to see how officers successfully got the turkey out of the building.