PADUCAH, Ky.---There are reports from a number of people claiming an owl is terrorizing the entire neighborhood, and they don't know what to do about it.  
One doctor caught it on camera while riding his bike.
This isn't the first time he's been attacked by the big bird.  In fact Monday's assault was the fourth time.
He said it always happens in the same area, as he rides his bike just before sunrise, along Whitney Drive in the Pines subdivision in Paducah. On Monday he set out with his cell phone and caught it all on camera, without crashing his bike, or getting injured, others who live here haven't been so lucky.

"It means to attack, it doesn't think I'm prey, it thinks I'm in it's territory," Mark Vance said.

It's territory happens to be Vance's neighborhood.  He's been attacked three times while riding his bike along Whitney drive.  But he was ready for hit number four.

"I saw it hopping on the side of the road and I thought it may be warning me at that time so I was kind of expecting today but it's still a shock," Vance said.

Biologist Karen Hlinka is also surprised.

"Owls are usually very private animals, they are nocturnal they're out at night when people aren't around so it's very unusual," Hlinka said.

Vance said a neighbor was hit in the head by the owl and even cut by it's talons.

"They say its just territorial," Vance said.

But still terrifying to people trying to mind their own business.

We also reached out to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife in Frankfort and spoke with an avian biologist there, who was very surprised by this and had never heard of anything like this.

We also spoke with Garry Clark, he's a state fish and wildlife conservation officer, who is no stranger to getting rid of nuisances, but says this is totally different.  He doesn't have the authority to touch owls, only the Feds can do that.  He is reaching out to a federal agent in Frankfort to let them know about this situation.

A federal law, known as the "migratory bird treaty act" makes it illegal to capture or kill a long list of birds, unless you have a special permit.