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Linda ladeewolf

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32. I loved this episode!

Reply to Reader Rabbit (Original post)

Thu Nov 27, 2025, 03:36 PM

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It brought back this childhood memory. I saw this happen in my small Missouri town! Just picture it, taking a couple of hundred turkeys to the top of the bank building (about 4 stories tall) turkeys can’t fly from that height either, oh the carnage. My dad got one when it hit the ground, it was still alive when he got it to the car. The poor thing had a broken wing and leg and probably internal injuries, dad put it out of its misery when we got it home. I don’t think I could eat any of it.

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