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Turkeys Away 4 times in a row

For a time, Gordon Jump, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner used to go around to shopping centers around Thanksgiving and renact the Turkey Drop. I guess too much time has passed and too many prospective shoppers are too young to remember it. I haven't seen anything about this in recent years.

And, by the way, turkeys can fly.
So can ducks for that matter but Donald and Daffy never do.
 
When I was living in Spokane in the early 90s, a radio station did a lot of publicity for their "turkey drop". Turned out they just dropped vouchers for free turkeys from a helicopter.
 
What might be different is a re-enactment of the "Santa Drop" as seen on an early Christmas episode of "Married, With Children". If you've seen the episode, you know what I mean.
 
FredLeonard said:
For a time, Gordon Jump, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner used to go around to shopping centers around Thanksgiving and renact the Turkey Drop. I guess too much time has passed and too many prospective shoppers are too young to remember it. I haven't seen anything about this in recent years.

And, by the way, turkeys can fly.
So can ducks for that matter but Donald and Daffy never do.
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Gordon Jump died in 2003, so that COULD BE WHY you haven't heard about him appearing at shopping centers to renact the "The Turkey Drop" scene in a while!

As far as turkeys being able to fly, it depends on what type of turkeys you are refering to. The wild turkey is a very good flyers and can fly quite a distance, whereas, domesticated turkey, which are the turkeys that are sold in supermarkets, can only fly for a very short distance and only when they are young and before they reach full maturity. You could not do a turkey drop with live turkeys because the wild turkeys would fly away long before they reached the ground and a muture, domesticated turkey are too heavy to fly and wouldn't survive the drop from that heighth.
 
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