# These turkeys can't fly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931 "2024-11-29T12:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/1 "2024-11-29T12:23:48Z")
Alaska Turkey Bomb > **['It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both, with a pilot tossing...](https://apnews.com/article/alaska-turkeys-dropped-from-airplanes-9865b07e98826a77dd3570c679600f1a)** > > In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/2 "2024-11-29T12:37:28Z")
Wonder where they got that idea? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/3 "2024-11-29T13:39:35Z")
I was ready to assume that some humorless bureaucrat somewhere would immediately try to stop this on the grounds that pilots shouldn’t be throwing stuff out of their planes, but a quick search suggests they’re probably okay. [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.15](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.15) On the one hand, a frozen turkey is a pretty dangerous projectile. On the other hand, “reasonable precautions” is a squishy standard and it sounds like they’re being careful. So, turkey-bomb away, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/4 "2024-11-29T13:49:34Z")
As God as my witness…🦃✈ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/5 "2024-11-29T14:01:59Z")
The article mentions an eighty-year-old living a ninety-minute snowmobile ride from the nearest town. That sort of very isolated life is well outside what I would want. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/6 "2024-11-29T14:02:35Z")
As an Alaskan, this doesn’t surprise me in the least. This is a state where pizzas are routinely delivered by small plane from Nome to outlying villages. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-turkeys-cant-fly/1010931/7 "2024-11-29T15:49:16Z")
Predating both WKRP and the Alaskan incident were the Ramona “Turkey Celebration Days” sandwich drops in the 1930s. From the [County News Center article](https://www.countynewscenter.com/century-celebrations-collier-park/): > _Ramona was known as the “Turkey Capital of the World” for many years and the celebration harkens back to the community’s Turkey Day celebrations held from 1933 to 1941._ > > _Those celebrations drew tens of thousands to the park and the 1936 and 1937 events featured turkey sandwiches “raining down” on attendees from stunt planes._