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Originally Posted by Brianna
Somebody TOTALLY nailed a fake turkey to a tree and took a pic.
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Originally Posted by 404Error
Okay, I did a quick google search for 'flying turkey' and that was one of the first pictures I saw that looked good enough to post to make my point. I admit I didn't check it out closely at the time. And you're right, it does look kinda hokey now that I'm looking at it again.  |
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As a perfessional photogiraffer, I'd stake both your reputations on the veracity of the turkey pic. All flash pictures look fake. especially that one. That one looks especially fake. but it looks so fake that I think it may be real. Then again, it may be frozen. The odd thing is that the head and neck get all red when the bird is excited (my friend had a pet turkey and we'd watch its head go from normal blue to excited red) I doubt it would stay red and excited after the bird was nailed to a tree. Unless of course it was one of "those" kinds of birds, if you get my drift.
Also, we used to live in a place where the turkeys would walk past, and on, our back porch every damn day. 20-30 of them, all ages. Sometimes I'd open the door and startle them. They'd fly helter skelter up into the trees with as much grace as a bulldozer. They'd snap the branches they flew into, bashing anything in their way.
Not twigs, BRANCHES. They are brutes.
A friend of mine worked in a butcher shop during the depression when he was a kid and he told me about the time he had to slaughter a live turkey. He cut off its head and it got away from him IN THE SHOP! The bird flew around for several seconds (must have seemed like a day and a half) covering everyone in the store in blood.
It was the depression, I guess that kind of thing happened w/o lawsuits then.
They fly when they want to.