Letter to the editor: Was Butterball really a threat?

What kind of serious threats was the Forbes Road pet turkey causing that gave rise for the game warden to kill it (“Forbes Road residents shocked gobbler ‘Butterball’ shot by game warden,” Jan. 16, TribLIVE)? Was it causing serious automobile accidents? Was it transporting Lyme disease-infected ticks into the neighborhood? Was it dropping huge piles of feces possibly containing E. coli bacteria or chronic wasting disease prions into people’s yards? Or was it destroying people’s shrubbery and flower and vegetable gardens like the out-of-control residential white-tailed deer do annually with impunity?

I cannot imagine Butterball caused these kinds of problems. When will the Pennsylvania Game Commission confront the real multimillion-dollar wild animal scourge that exists in suburban neighborhoods?

Gerald Schiller

Penn Hills