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Florida deputy fends off turkeys during a routine traffic stop

The deputy mistook them for chickens at first.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Why did the chicken cross the road?

That’s what a St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office deputy might’ve been wondering during a routine traffic stop in February.

A Facebook post shows St. John’s County Deputy Carson pulled over on the side of the road Feb. 29. in a Vermont Heights neighborhood performing a traffic stop.

Video shows Carson noticing a flock of turkeys, varying in color, on the street as he exited his patrol car.

“Quack, quack quack! Chicken, chicken, chicken,” Carson said.

After he tried to hand a woman in an SUV back her identification, one turkey broke out of the flock and confronted the deputy.

“10-4, I’m getting attacked by a chicken right now,” Deputy Carson said as he fanned his hat toward the turkey, shooing it away.

The flock of turkeys eventually retreated to a nearby neighbor’s yard and Deputy Carson went back to his patrol car.

“Of all the places you can come,” Carson said toward the end of the video.

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