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Church to hold huge 'Helicopter Egg Drop' for Easter
WOAI ^ | 04/02/2010

Posted on 04/02/2010 11:04:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

SAN ANTONIO -- When you think of Easter egg hunts, you normally look for what's on the ground. But one local church is doing something a bit different this year.

Northrock Church gave News 4 WOAI a sneak peek at the hundreds of eggs they will be dropping from helicopters. The pastor said this is the first time they have done this, and they wanted to put a different spin on egg hunts.

"This is one of those events that appeals to older children as well as younger children, because everyone thinks it's cool when a helicopter flies over and pours easter eggs out the side," said Paster Jonathon Moore.

Northrock church's easter egg drop is Saturday at Lopez Middle School on the practice fields. The gates open at 9:20 a.m., and the chopper will start dropping the eggs around 11:00 a.m.

The event is FREE and open to any one who wants to take part.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: easter; eastereggs; helicopter; napl
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To: Responsibility2nd
said Paster Jonathon Moore.

Paster?

21 posted on 04/02/2010 11:09:57 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Responsibility2nd; Slings and Arrows
Northrock Church gave News 4 WOAI a sneak peek at the hundreds of eggs they will be dropping from helicopters


22 posted on 04/02/2010 11:10:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Responsibility2nd
The pastor said this is the first time they have done this

"[...]everyone thinks it's cool when a helicopter flies over and pours easter eggs out the side," said Paster Jonathon Moore.

I suppose the "paster" is what we would call a "pastor" in English, but how does he know that "everyone thinks it's cool" if it's the "first time they have done this" ??

23 posted on 04/02/2010 11:10:05 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SJSAMPLE

One of the funniest WKRP episodes, ever.


24 posted on 04/02/2010 11:10:15 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: SJSAMPLE

I thought turkeys could fly!


25 posted on 04/02/2010 11:11:37 AM PDT by BallandPowder
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To: a fool in paradise

http://www.hulu.com/watch/322/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away


26 posted on 04/02/2010 11:11:38 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Responsibility2nd; Revolting cat!; Mamzelle

New ACORN tactic to egg Breitbart’s bus.


27 posted on 04/02/2010 11:11:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: DManA
I’m thinking little remote controlled jobs.

How do you get "hundreds" of eggs to drop out of an R/C helicopter, or even a fleet of them?

On command, I mean, and not before.

28 posted on 04/02/2010 11:12:05 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: wbill
"Possibly the funniest segment ever put on Network TV."

TRUE DAT!

29 posted on 04/02/2010 11:12:26 AM PDT by haywoodwebb (ISLAM = DEATH! . . . . Black & Humble . . .)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Everyone else had the same mental image I did. WKRP.


30 posted on 04/02/2010 11:12:39 AM PDT by marron
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To: SJSAMPLE

“... I thought turkeys could fly.” That was my first thought also.


31 posted on 04/02/2010 11:12:55 AM PDT by Ingtar (Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
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To: haywoodwebb
".....then, the turkeys counterattacked......"

Poor Les.

32 posted on 04/02/2010 11:13:41 AM PDT by wbill
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To: svcw

One of the best TV moments ever!


33 posted on 04/02/2010 11:13:41 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why am I having a WKRP flashback?


34 posted on 04/02/2010 11:18:03 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Shouldn’t they be celebrating Christ Risen and not dropping eggs from helicopters? I’m just sayin...


35 posted on 04/02/2010 11:19:43 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Thankfully, it’s not Thanksgiving.


Turkeys Tossed From A Plane Once a Year

Yellville, Arkansas

Yellville has a problem. It wants people to come to its annual Turkey Trot festival -- and yet the most spectacular event in the festival is something that the town can't talk about.

That something is the "Turkey Drop," where live wild turkeys are dropped out of a low-flying airplane that circles the two-day festival.

Turkey Trot has been celebrated on the second Friday and Saturday of October every year since 1946. It was conceived as a way to call attention to the region's abundant wild turkeys. A highlight of the festival was the "Turkey Toss," in which live wild turkeys were tossed off of the roof of the County Courthouse. In the 1960s this was replaced by the Turkey Drop.


36 posted on 04/02/2010 11:20:26 AM PDT by deport
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To: Responsibility2nd

I thought only manna fell from the heavens.


37 posted on 04/02/2010 11:21:06 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: latina4dubya

Ping


38 posted on 04/02/2010 11:23:06 AM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: 6ppc

THE funniest episode EVER to air on television.

That is why we still remember it after all these years.


39 posted on 04/02/2010 11:24:31 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Texas Megachurch to Give Out Cars, TVs at Easter Services

Easter at a megachurch in Corpus Christi, Texas, will look like the popular TV game show "The Price Is Right."

Sixteen cars, 15 flat-screen televisions, furniture sets and other prizes are lined up at Bay Area Fellowship Church and ready to be claimed by anyone who attends the church's Easter services on Sunday.

40 posted on 04/02/2010 11:25:47 AM PDT by deport
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