WKRP Turkey Drop

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." This classic episode was inspired by a real event. Read a supposedly eyewitness account here.

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[Ariane]

I've heard of that show but have yet to see an episode.

That was fab! Thanks ever so much for sharing!

[me]

I also thought it it based on this case when softballs were tossed off a high building. They did not understand gravity. See

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07255/816668-122.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml

Ted Stepien

Mr. Stepien sold his company and the Cavaliers in 1983.

In addition to owning a pro basketball team, Mr. Stepien owned the Cleveland Jaybirds from 1977 through 1979 in the American Professional Slo Pitch League.

In 1980, he organized the North American Softball League that included a team called the Pittsburgh Champions. The league folded after a year, but not before Mr. Stepien had a publicity stunt in which five softballs were thrown from the 52nd floor of Cleveland's Terminal Tower skyscraper. One ball hit a car, another broke a woman's wrist, one grazed an onlooker's shoulder, one bounced off the street and the final one was caught.