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Dropping turkeys from planes triggers Arkansas festival flap
AP via ABC ^ | Oct 13, 2017, | KELLY P. KISSEL

Posted on 10/14/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase

The 72nd Yellville Turkey Trot opened Friday with questions over whether the turkey drop portion would continue. The Chamber of Commerce for the small northern Arkansas city has distanced itself from the tradition it once endorsed and is hoping a "phantom pilot" won't fly over this weekend. But that hasn't stopped thousands of people from emailing the chamber about doing more to protect the birds.

"Why don't you jump yourselves with no parachute. ... Think you'll like it?" one person wrote to the chamber Monday. Others used more colorful language.

Arkansas is one of the nation's top turkey-producing states, and the weekend festival is meant to be a celebration of the bird. There is a 5K run, music and dancing, and the Miss Drumsticks pageant, in which contestants are judged only on their legs. Of course, turkey also stars on food vendors' menus.

"It means fall is here," the Yellville Chamber of Commerce wrote in an open letter. "It means a turkey dinner a few weeks earlier than the rest of America. It means homecoming for many. ... Turkey Trot is so much more than turkeys being released from an airplane."

The festival started a year after World War II as a complement to a turkey calling contest run by the local American Legion hall. During the first turkey drops, which helped the festival draw a crowd, the birds were dropped from the courthouse roof for people to chase, with some becoming pets and the others Thanksgiving dinner. But at least 50 years ago, the switch was made to a small plane.

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1 posted on 10/14/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

As God is my witness...


2 posted on 10/14/2017 7:46:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Rebelbase

I’m all for it. Dropping the turkeys from planes - this includes turkeys like nnshame and HilLIARy and pelousy, right?


3 posted on 10/14/2017 7:48:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: sparklite2

Oh, the humanity....


4 posted on 10/14/2017 7:48:13 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: sparklite2

Lol. Oh the Humanity!


5 posted on 10/14/2017 7:48:31 PM PDT by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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To: Rebelbase

6 posted on 10/14/2017 7:51:40 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: Rebelbase

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.


7 posted on 10/14/2017 7:52:00 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: Rebelbase

Does this qualify as redneck “fun”? Killing birds which have been bred to be top heavy and not to fly by dropping them from planes? Absolutely degenerate.


8 posted on 10/14/2017 7:53:06 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Rebelbase

This is Les Nessman reporting for WKRP...


9 posted on 10/14/2017 7:55:13 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To: EinNYC

Agreed.


10 posted on 10/14/2017 7:55:52 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Rebelbase

Extra bonus points if you drop them into the fryer.


11 posted on 10/14/2017 7:56:17 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Rebelbase

This is a case point in what is wrong in much of the world.

An area that has a tradition that people in the rest of the country find appalling so they bitch and moan about it.

People kill babies at the drop of a hat, but drop a turkey from a plane and it should be a felony!


12 posted on 10/14/2017 7:57:50 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: EinNYC

Maybe your eyes are degenerate.


13 posted on 10/14/2017 7:58:14 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: EinNYC

An old Myron Cohen routine had a guy showing off his bee collection. The bees were kept in Mason jars.

A visitor said, “I notice you don’t punch any air holes in the lids.”

“So?”

“So if the bees can’t breathe, they’ll die.”

“So what? It’s only a hobby!”


14 posted on 10/14/2017 7:59:23 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Rebelbase

Que Les Nessman

“with God as my witness....”

BWAHAHAHAHA


15 posted on 10/14/2017 8:01:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: sparklite2

LOL!! Loved that show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg


16 posted on 10/14/2017 8:02:55 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Rebelbase
I don’t know what the big deal is. They even come with a static line clip.


17 posted on 10/14/2017 8:03:05 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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This sort of thing would never happen in my adopted hometown of Toadsuck, Arkansas.

They drop crayfish.

Mud Bug Bombing.


18 posted on 10/14/2017 8:05:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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If you are good at it...you can catch a wild turkey.

Mrs Spokeshave has the secret...caught a couple a year or so ago.

19 posted on 10/14/2017 8:08:31 PM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: Rebelbase

“Why don’t you jump yourselves with no parachute. ...”

I had not ever heard of this Arkansas turkey drop, but wildlife officials in states with low wild turkey populations have released wild turkeys from aircraft for decades. . . with good results - with a lot of planning.

The turkeys wouldn’t have to fly - just glide. Whether a domestic turkey could do it routinely . . . I don’t know. The bird might need to go to flight school.


20 posted on 10/14/2017 8:11:00 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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