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Will Arkansas Town Drop Turkeys From Planes For This Year’s ‘Cruel’ Event?

Paranominal — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:53:17 +0000

YELLVILLE, Ark. — 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 is 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 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. http://bit.ly/riRPHL

“Everybody says, `We have no idea who it is,’ but everybody knows who it is,” Lunsford said in an article published Friday.

The Turkey Trot pays homage to one of the state’s biggest exports. Arkansas was the third-largest turkey producer of any state in 2010.

First held in 1946, the festival is also an attraction in the 1,200-person town. It includes a turkey-calling contest, a turkey dinner, and beauty pageants. And it once included a sanctioned “turkey drop” from the top of the local courthouse.

Now, the turkey drop is conducted by private citizens, Yellville Chamber of Commerce President Travis Doshier said.

“They keep themselves pretty well secluded,” Doshier told the newspaper. He said he didn’t know if they were planning another drop this year.

It’s a scene that’s reminiscent of a 1978 episode of the TV series “WKRP in Cincinnati,” where the manager of a fictional radio station sends a helicopter to drop turkeys over the town as a Thanksgiving promotion – and later proclaims, “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

The FAA has tried to crack down before, Lunsford said. Officials have spoken to event organizers and at least one pilot who flew turkeys in the past.

The agency this year is watching for planes. Lunsford said pilots who participate risk losing their licenses.

“If a plane flies over and a turkey comes out of it, we’re going to be talking to somebody,” he said.

Fans of the drop say it doesn’t hurt the turkeys because they can use their wings to slow their descent. Doshier said the turkeys “just spread those big old wings they’ve got and glide” to the ground.

“We know that they can get up in the air because they get on trees and roofs,” he said.

But Lunsford says he’s seen video of a turkey falling straight down and bouncing off the roof of a building.

Roger Vickers, the sheriff in Marion County, told the newspaper that some turkeys do get hurt, “but that’s going to happen with anything.”

“It depends on what they fly into,” he said.

The event started Friday afternoon and runs through midnight Saturday.

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Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com

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How To Identify Planes Spraying Chemtrails In Real Time

Paranominal — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:54:42 +0000

This is a short film made in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand about the use of websites, such as planefinder.net and www.flightradar24.com to identify planes spraying chemtrails. It also helps to use Departure and Arrival Schedules in order to predict planes movements. The departure…
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CNN Airs Live Footage of UFOs or Planes in Arizona dust storm – July 6, 2011

Paranominal — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:59:33 +0000

**** With apologies- Credit WAS NOT initially given to Ms Parece for her ‘written report’ on this event. (see below). It would behoove all to check out her work/site. Very interesting. www.examiner.com/unexplained-phenomena-in-national Tracey Parece Unexplained Phenomena Examiner “A very exciting video of two UFOs flying in the face of the recent Arizona dust storm is arousing major attention. The video that aired live on CNN on Tuesday, July 6, 2011 shows two flying objects on the left side of the screen that cannot be positively identified as helicopters or airplanes. According to CNN, which aired the original video, the dust storm ” . . . had sustained winds of up to 69 mph and stretched more than 100 miles at one time.” The storm was described as “especially intense.” UFO sightings during natural or man made disasters are not uncommon. UFOs were reported in Japan preceding, during, and following the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami there.”

Weird! I first saw this story and youtube videos on Lon’s paranormal and cryptozoology site Phantoms and Monsters at: naturalplane.blogspot.com What do you think it is? 0o The truth is out there. Other tags: Strange Alien creatures caught on security camera above Fresno in Yosemite youtube google Phantoms and Monsters paranormal unexplained phenomena ghosts aliens Cryptozoology home video scary tape haunted

Is The Government Poisoning Us From Planes? – WGCL Atlanta

Paranominal — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:50:37 +0000

Is The Government Poisoning Us From Planes?
WGCL Atlanta
They call them chemtrails and there believe the toxins are damaging the environment and our health. "It definitely angers me," said Ali Valente of Buckhead. "Some days there's only four [chemtrails] some days there's eight. Some days the whole sky is …

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Sen. Isakson: Government Is Not Spraying Chemicals From Planes – WGCL Atlanta

Paranominal — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:50:12 +0000

Sen. Isakson: Government Is Not Spraying Chemicals From Planes
WGCL Atlanta
The e-mails followed a story CBS Atlanta aired on the chemtrail conspiracy theory on Feb. 2. Chemtrails is a word theorists use to describe some white lines left by jets in the sky. They believe the particles in the white lines are actually bits of …

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