Government monitoring for Arkansas turkey drop

[AsahinaKimi]

YELLVILLE, Arkansas (AP) -- No one in the northern Arkansas town of Yellville will say if they expect wild turkeys to fall from planes for this year's Turkey Trot festival. But the Federal Aviation Administration says it will be watching.

Organizers of the festival long ago disavowed the tradition of letting wild turkeys fall from low-flying airplanes as spectators watched them glide to the ground.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has called the event cruel and offered a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest. And the FAA, which is the national aviation authority in the U.S., has tried to crack down on pilots who participate.

But someone continues to drop the turkeys. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that no one in town will say who's responsible.

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[liberal N proud]

1. WKRP Cincinnati

[Lucinda]

3. My first thought too

:hi:

[LynneSin]

2. As God as my witness I thought Turkey's could fly!!!

Funniest bit ever in a TV sitcom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4

[11 Bravo]

8. OOOOH, the humanity! (And you're right. I don't believe I have ever laughed longer, or louder ...

at any television show than I did at that episode of WKRP.)

[WolverineDG]

11. My dad almost passed out from laughing so hard

he couldn't breathe. I can only recall one other time when my entire family was rolling on the floor, laughing ourselves to death: Carol Burnett's Gone With the Wind parody.

:rofl:

dg

[csziggy]

4. It's Arthur Carlson!

http://youtu.be/ST01bZJPuE0

[tularetom]

5. Is Les Nessman working for the Turkey Trot people?

Oh the humanity.

[pinboy3niner]

6. If they dropped the turkey droppers...

...would they just spread their arms and "glide"?

"As God is my Witness, I thought turkey droppers could glide!!!" :evilgrin:

[uppityperson]

7. Wild turkeys can fly, but as God is my witness, domestic ones can not.

[dtexdem]

9. They need a substitute for turkeys -- how about PETA members?

;-)

[Aerows]

10. Turkey drops are socialism

Can't have people thinking turkeys just fall from the sky. Bootstraps. :sarcasm: