Posted on 11/23/2008 6:52:00 PM PST by The Pack Knight
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. — Authorities arrested a man whom bystanders say they hit with a frozen turkey when he carjacked a woman's sedan outside a Fuquay-Varina grocery store Sunday.
The man stole money from a BP gas station at Ten-Ten Road and US. Highway 401 shortly before noon, Garner police said. He then crossed Ten-Ten to the parking lot of a Harris Teeter store and approached Irene Moorman Bailey loading groceries in her car.
Witnesses told police that the man started beating Bailey in the face, trying to get her keys.
“The lady was being beaten on the ground. She was lying on the ground and the guy was on top of her – physically hitting her,” shopper Randy Owens said.
Bystanders intervened and hit the man in the head with a frozen turkey that Bailey bought, police said.
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LOL! That was the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread!
It was poultry-in-motion!
My friend teaches at NCSU, and lives in Fuquay Varina. I haven’t visited, but have the mailing address.
I just got his reply:
Somehow I missed this — but then I haven’t looked at a paper today. I am copying my reply to friends and family, some of whom may know more than I do (who doesn’t?).
It seems to me that hitting the assailant with a turkey is perfectly in keeping with the holiday spirit, as it were!
I actually have an update myself you can relate to your friend. A family fried who is a Fuquay cop got to spend the night with the perp in WakeMed’s ICU for neurological cases. Evidently he’s seriously messed up, with a huge gash on his head, bleeding out his ear, and telling everyone he’s Jesus.
Evidently the turkey was a 20 pounder with a handle on the wrapper. That’s like getting clocked with a car battery! He might have been better off just getting shot.
See post 44. It seems like he really does have at least a skull fracture.
Thanks. I hope the lady he attacked is in better shape than he is! Sounds like he got his just desserts—or main course.
I hope so, too. I haven’t heard anything about her, though her attacker was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon Causing Serious Bodily Harm. “Serious bodily harm” in North Carolina requires substantial risk of death, permanent injury, or prolonged hospitalization, so I suspect she’s not in the best shape either.
Hopefully the officer or the magistrate was being overzealous in charging that offense and she’s really not that bad off, but I’ll post here if I hear anything.
I’m still a purist when it comes to Thanksgiving, but that might be a plan for Christmas!
My family used to do the turkey thing for Christmas, too, but recently my parents decided to branch out, and it’s been a lot of fun. Last time I was up, we actually did an herb-rubbed prime rib dinner that really worked out great!
Fillet and lobster might be a good idea. I’ll be sure to get the tenderloin uncut, just in case I have to use it as a baseball bat in the parking lot...
I remember the old Hitchock story about a lady who killed her husband by beaning him with a frozen leg of lamb. She then served it to the detective investigating the case who couldn’t locate the murder weapon.
Sounds like the victim was going to have a large clan for T-day. Does the turkey get held as evidence? Did the family have to buy a replacement?
Few Kway Vuh Reena.
Fuquay Springs was a resort area in the early 1900’s I believe. Just a mile and a half away, Varina, named for a woman, was a railroad town. The two towns merged in the 1950’s I think.
Just don’t ask how to pronounce one of F-V’s roads, Chalybeate Springs
Thanks!
I thought Chalybeate was pronounced “Chal-ee-beat.” At least, that’s what I thought when I passed it every month to/from NCSSM all those years ago. Or am I wrong?
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