A wild turkey crashed through an apartment window in Wisconsin, prompting police to be called.
Wausau Police Department shares Bodycam footageOfficers were equipped with gloves, nets and other gear to capture the bird.
The video shows the wild turkey running around the apartment, trying to fly, but officers eventually captured it and released it outdoors.
Doris Madden is an apartment resident TelledWSAW she was suspicious of the window that had been broken on Aug.
“We had no idea what had caused it, or if anybody was even home,”Madden said so to the outlet.
Madden called an apartment manager who, according WSAW, got maintenance to look into the situation.
“When he opened the door, there’s the turkey. And so he thought, ‘I’m not going to try to catch that thing.’ So he called the police station for animal control,” Madden told WSAW.
“A lot of times the first response in any call including animal calls are our patrol officers. They just have to try to do the best they can with the information that they have and the equipment available to them,” said Wausau Police Department Patrol Captain Todd Baeten told WSAW.
Madden said to WSAW the whole building had been destroyed. “talking turkey,”Since the incident.
“I think it’s kind of funny. I’m just glad it wasn’t my apartment,”She told the outlet.