With turkeys being present every single morning in the Spring, many Norwin High School students capture photos of these wild creatures each and every morning. However, one teacher seems to be getting all the attention — Mr. Amic, an English teacher at Norwin High School.

Ever since the fall, wild turkeys have been seen roaming around the high school campus, coming in from the woods to the high school. In fact, one flock of turkeys keeps on attacking and frolicking near Mr. Amic’s vehicle in the teacher’s parking lot at the high school. Several reports indicate that the turkeys have escaped from a nearby pen, and seem to be attracted to Norwin’s landscape because of the lively environment of the high school halls.

Several eyewitnesses, both students and staff members, describe the turkeys descending upon Mr. Amic’s vehicle, forcing Mr. Amic to set up preventative measures in order to keep the turkeys away. In a recent meeting at Mr. Amic’s red Chevy Silverado, the turkeys decided to take over the area around Mr. Amic’s vehicle and to plan a secret attack to force the English teacher to give the turkeys his vehicle as a secret meeting place.

The turkeys began frolicking near Mr. Amic’s car in the early fall of the 2023-24 school year. Many students saw the turkeys strutting near Mr. Amic’s truck in the early morning out of the school’s windows, watching the animals as they pecked furiously at the tires and jumped into the back of the car. Soon enough, the wild group of turkeys started to scratch at Mr. Amic’s vehicle, leaving a series of marks to symbolize their takeover of the Norwin landscape.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when they first started attacking my new shiny red truck,” said Mr. Amic. “It’s like the turkeys have a personal vendetta against me; I had to excuse myself from my current English class to defend my car from the turkeys. I grabbed a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird because it’s about a bird that died and ran outside of the building to start yelling at the turkeys to get away from my precious possessions.”

During the first attack from the turkeys, several staff members heard the chaos that ensued from Mr. Amic running out of the building to defend his car. Mr. Fleckenstein and Mrs. Brentzel, other English teachers at the high school, ran outside of the doors and watched Mr. Amic go mad on the turkeys, screaming at them to get away and even getting into his vehicle to go park it somewhere else.

However, Mr. Amic’s sprawl at the turkeys around his car did not stop the relentless efforts of the wild animals to take possession of his red Chevy Silverado. Mr. Fleckenstein saw the wild efforts of the turkeys to take over the area and sent two students out to stop the turkeys from doing any more damage — sophomores Noah Carney and Joe Cramer.

“I was terrified when approaching the turkeys at first,” said Carney. “There were so many of them that I got intimidated and started to gobble and yelp back at the turkeys to assert my dominance and to scare them away. It was as if me and Joe were giant turkeys, who successfully scared the rest away.”

Even though Carney and Cramer stopped the turkeys from attacking Mr. Amic’s Chevy Silverado for one day in the fall, the turkeys only returned the next day — completely forgetting about their previous fear of the students who yelled at them.

However, Mr. Amic greatly appreciated and adored his parking spot because it was relatively close to his classroom. So, the English teacher went to buy supplies to prevent the turkeys from scratching any more at his car.

“On my way to Home Depot to buy supplies to keep the turkeys away from my truck, I spoke to a turkey specialist and realized that many turkeys are horrifically afraid of reflective aluminum,” said Mr. Amic. “So, I bought several reflective aluminum pans and set them up on sticks around my car, like a fence to scare the turkeys away for good.”

Mr. Amic’s aluminum pan defense seemed to work well for a couple of weeks. But soon enough, the turkeys outsmarted the English teacher and realized that the defense that Mr. Amic put up was fraudulent and they quickly trampled it afterward.

On Wednesday, March 13th, Mr. Amic walked out to his car and discovered a huge group of turkeys trampling his car… again. The English teacher ran to protect his car from the turkeys, as they had gotten past his defensive pans. Many students from the English hallway watched in awe as Mr. Amic started yelling and screaming at the turkeys for them to get off of his precious Chevy Silverado.

“I couldn’t believe the sight before my eyes,” said Mr. Amic. “My mind was just overwhelmed with thoughts of what would happen if my car was forever marked by the turkeys evil thoughts and intentions.”

In a shocking turn of events, Mr. Amic ran over to the turkeys and started to brutally attack them. However, soon enough, the turkeys started to fight back and one male turkey blatantly slapped Mr. Amic across the face and caused him to land face-first on the concrete next to his car.

“I can’t even remember what happened,” said Mr. Amic. “I was just overcome with emotions and feelings of rage. I couldn’t begin to think of what would happen to my car if the turkeys kept on trampling on it.”

Only five minutes afterward, all of the other English teachers came down and watched in terror as the turkeys kept on trampling Mr. Amic. Soon enough, Mrs. Brentzel had enough of watching the horror scene in front of her and ran up to the turkeys to get them off of Mr. Amic. Mrs. Brentzel started to grab the turkeys hand-in-hand and throw them off of Mr. Amic, as he was already knocked out on the ground.

After the brawl was broken up by Mrs. Brentzel, an ambulance arrived and took Mr. Amic to the nearest hospital. At the hospital, Mr. Amic was treated for several injuries including several broken ribs, a ruptured eardrum from the turkeys’ loud screaming, and a broken leg.

Since Mr. Amic’s injuries were so severe and life-threatening at the time, Mr. Amic decided to file a lawsuit against the turkey clan at Norwin High School, for their negligence to Mr. Amic’s truck and personal well-being. Mr. Amic decided upon hiring the personal injury attorneys: Shenderovich, Shenderovich & Fishman to defend him against the turkeys.

In the trial,  Amic v. Commonwealth of the Norwin High School Turkeys, Mr. Amic successfully won with the help of the personal injury attorneys. In their promise, the Shenderovich’s and Fishman noted that they “had Mr. Amic’s back, not his wallet.”