Posted on 10/10/2016 10:53:44 AM PDT by Teotwawki
“Oh, the HUGH manatee!”
That REALLY happened. At a station in Denver in the 60’s.
And the station manager really DID say “as God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly!”
I knew someone who used to work for him.
I was told domestic turkey chicks require the company of chicken chicks to teach them how to peck for food.
Well, I’d be opposed to throwing babies out of airplanes too, just as policy.
...Comment: Reminds me of the funniest WKRP episode ever, perhaps the funniest episode of any sitcom ever....
That and Johnny Fever running out of the transmitter building fleeing the “Phone Police.” (They’re everywhere!!!)
I was told domestic turkey chicks require the company of chicken chicks to teach them how to peck for food.
I get the feeling the birds “suffer” before hitting the ground as much as the whale in Hitchhiker’s Guide.
The horror
I would note 80-90% survive
My guess is some get confused
Plus these aren’t wild birds
I could care less
Put gaffs on em and put em in a cockpit and I’m interested
Nonsense. Cruelty is an aspect of the oppressor, not the victim. Throwing turkeys out of a plane is indefensible. In addition, yes, it's possible to be cruel to an oak tree. Here's an example - wait till spring and all the buds sprout on the tree, and then go snap them all off. That's cruel, period. Cruelty is intent.
Here’s an example - wait till spring and all the buds sprout on the tree, and then go snap them all off. That’s cruel, period. Cruelty is intent.
Cruelty is an aspect of the oppressor, not the victim.
I never took a sledge hammer to a car because I thought it would suffer. I never pulled the legs off a daddy longlegs as a kid because I thought it would suffer.
And my cats don’t skin and eat bunnies alive because they think the bunny will suffer.
Most of the world isn't as tough as you, big guy.
Some of us even care for plants. Of course, we can't do it for very long, after a few years of caring for a garden you can turn into a FAGGOT.
So be careful.
These inbred pieces of genetic disaster are disgusting, throwing live creatures from planes. Domestic turkeys are bred to have tremendous broad breasts and not so developed wings. They cannot really fly as do lean wild turkeys. It is beyond cruel to subject living creatures to a horrible death, smashing into the ground. Where is the Humane Society and the ASPCA during all this? These folks need to have a load of bird pellet emptied into their rear ends, which probably double as their mouths.
Some of us enjoy listening to the screams when we chop the heads off of the blades of grass.
Then I agree, you weren't being cruel. You're just mentally ill, and I have compassion for that.
And my cats don’t skin and eat bunnies alive because they think the bunny will suffer.
Cats are aliens, and they are taking over the world.
A bunch of years ago a friend climbed up into his deer hunting tree stand before day break not realizing there were a number of turkeys roosting in a tree near by. As the sun starting rising they took off flying, almost scaring my friend out of the stand with their sudden noise..........LOL!
If they want to continue with this odd tradition, they need to round up enough wild turkeys to do it. At least they’d have a fighting chance, being capable of limited flight. Tossing domesticated turkeys out of a plane for amusement is cruel. They’re not really capable of flying.
That's what that fresh cut grass smell actually is. Biologists have shown that it is a way that grass sends a chemical message that it is under attack. It's supposed to both repel the invader because of the assumed stench, and trigger acid releases in other grasses to make themselves unpalatable.
Nature, however, knows nothing about the attractiveness of the smell to a human being with a lawn mower, a bottle of beer and a cigar on a sunny day, with a baseball game on the radio.
Where the idea for that WKRP episode came from
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