West Orange

This was just another rush hour in West Orange, where the apparently fearless turkey has claimed a hillside along Pleasant Valley Way, tormenting drivers and pedestrians ceaselessly on one of the community’s busiest thoroughfares.

“It’s like seeing a celebrity,” said Ben Maimin, 35, a West Orange resident whose 15-month-old daughter is a devoted fan.

In some West Orange households it’s known as Cluck Norris, Gobbles McFeathers and Wingston, to name just a few.

West Orange, a township of nearly 50,000 people 25 miles from Manhattan, is not unaccustomed to wildlife encounters.

There's a C-corporation called Major Investigations Inc., which is listed as "security" at the same address in West Orange, New Jersey, as the RWJBarnabas Health Foundation.