# As God is my witness...\[dropping turkeys\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936 "2016-10-08T14:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936/41 "2017-03-30T18:17:07Z")
And they said you shouldn’t play with your food. This is marvelous. Its quirky little happenings like this that give small town America its charm. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936/42 "2017-03-30T19:15:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Still, doesn’t someone at the rental company have to put in a claim for the damage? Some are self-insured. & even if they have a third-party insurance firm, I’m guessing it’s different than going thru you’re insurance because if it goes thru your insurance, they bill you for things like lost income due to days out of rental service. They wouldn’t bill themselves for that. My guess is that it’s just a claim for damage/repair & they don’t care about the detail of _how_ it happened. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936/43 "2017-04-01T18:29:45Z")
I love the quote from the FAA spokesman: “We don’t endorse the practice of heaving unsuspecting turkeys out of aircraft for entertainment purposes…" First off, “unsuspecting?” Leaving aside for the moment the difficulty of getting a lawyered-up turkey to sign a waiver, exactly what might one have to do to arouse the (I have to believe, vestigial at best) suspicious instincts of a turkey? And how exactly would this practice be improved, in the eyes of the Federal Aviation Administration, if the turkeys plummeted in full cognizance of their peculiar circumstances? Second, “for entertainment purposes?” Apparently the FAA recognizes the 1st Amendment rights of Arkansans who defenestrate turkeys for religious purposes, which is good to know. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936/44 "2017-04-01T20:11:37Z")
Every time I see a wild turkey, I regret being a non-drinking vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936/45 "2017-04-02T02:33:41Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Every time I see a wild turkey, I regret being a non-drinking vegetarian. I have a recipe for Tennessee Flank Steak; marinated in Jim Beam, garlic, & [del]sumpin’ else[/del]\* _who cares what else after those two ingredients._ You give me an idea - wild turkey marinated in Wild Turkey - dry English mustard, butter, salt & pepper [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-my-witness-dropping-turkeys/767936.md?page=2)