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'Yellville Turkey Trot'

An open line for a day where the sky was filled with rain, not turkeys

Here's the open line as a sodden group of hardcore tailgaters await the Arkansas-Ole Miss football game at what is a virtually sold-out War Memorial Stadium. But in good news, they are having a fine Turkey Trot at Yellville, despite rain, without the spectacle of live turkeys plunging from airplanes.
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The fall open line: Talking turkey, Yellville Turkey Trot style

The Sunday open line includes a report and photos from an animal rescuer's report on the Yellville Turkey Trot, a festival at which live domestic turkeys are tossed from buildings and an airplane.
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No plane drop of turkeys at Yellville festival — so far

The Baxter Bulletin reports that the opening day Friday of the annual Yellville Turkey Trot festival included no airplane drop of live turkeys, though four were released from buildings for those in the crowd to capture.

Yellville's annual shame: PETA has dead bird to demonstrate cruelty

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Bill Bowden reported today that a woman who scooped a turkey killed after being thrown from an airplane Friday over the Yellville Turkey Trot was a volunteer for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This and other complaints will linger after a year in which two of 10 turkeys pitched from planes died in the fall.
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Turkey terrorism continues in Yellville: UPDATE another turkey death on Saturday

Fox 16's Mitch McCoy reports that live domesticated turkeys were again dropped from an airplane over the Yellville Turkey Trot festival Saturday.

Terrified turkeys to fall from sky again

They'll be dropping live turkeys out of an airplane over Yellville again this Friday and Saturday at Yellville's Turkey Trot Festival. Some people find this funny. The turkeys probably don't.
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'Phantom pilot' drops turkey from airplane over Yellville

The Baxter Bulletin first broke the news, with video, that an unidentified pilot had resumed the practice of dropping live turkeys from an airplane over the Yellville Turkey Trot.

Turkey drops resume from 2nd story at Yellville Turkey Trot

Turkey drops resumed this year at the Yellville Turkey Trot, but not from airplane bombers.
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It ain't easy being a hog or turkey in Arkansas

No this isn't about the sad state of Razorback football, but the sad state of attitudes toward treatment of animals.

No turkey drop in Yellville this year

The Baxter Bulletin reports that no live turkeys were dropped from an airplane during the Yellville Turkey Trot Festival.
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FAA to watch for turkey droppers

A Federal Aviation Administration official tells the Democrat-Gazette's Debra Hale-Shelton in an article today that the agency will be on the lookout for the rogue pilot who drops live turkeys over the Yellville Turkey Trot festival, scheduled today and tomorrow.

PETA campaigns against Yellville turkey drop

PETA is right about this one. The turkey drop at the Yellville Turkey Trot (Friday and Saturday) is ghastly.
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