A town called "Yellville", Arkansas is reviving their tradition of, get this, dropping live turkeys out of an airplane. I'm not making this up!
In Yellville (pop. 1,204), they call the turkey drop “an Ozark Mountain tradition” — one that has more or less remained intact for 71 years.And I almost howled with laughter when I read what the town judge said in defense of this practice:
Due to protests and weather concerns, the drops were put on hold from 2012 to 2014. But they’re back and scheduled to resume like old times, and many locals are rushing to defend the practice.
Terry Ott, a county judge, downplayed concerns about the well-being of the birds during an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
“They’re not going to crash,” Ott told the paper. “They’re birds. They can fly.”
I swear, this was the script right out of the infamous episode!
The stupidity of some people can be rather astounding.
Zz.
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