It was a fowl disturbance, perhaps unlike anything ever seen on Grounds.
Second-year Engineering student Piyush Srivastava returned to the University from a weekend at home to find an interesting new bedmate occupying his ground-floor Dillard dorm room.
A large turkey crashed through his window March 29, shattering glass and eventually dying on Srivastava’s bed.
“I saw this huge thing lying on my bed and glass shattered all over, the window completely broken,” he said. “I didn’t even realize it was a turkey. My suitemates told me it was a turkey. Luckily I wasn’t there. There was blood and glass all over my pillow.”
Srivastava said he contacted his resident adviser about the dead turkey on his bed, and was told to call University Housing Division’s emergency hotline. The deceased bird was removed that day and Srivastava was provided with another dorm room until the mess was cleaned. Animal control departments were not contacted about the incident, he said.
—compiled by Katie Bo Williams
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