A Coos Bay, Oregon man was guilty of bad judgment as well as assault when he attempted to abduct a 15-year-old girl. After wrestling her into his truck and driving off, the tough teen knocked him unconscious against the steering wheel. She then rolled the truck off a 20-foot embankment, crashing it on the rocky beach below. The girl told police she has taken several self-defense classes.

Cut and planed lumber was hard to come by in the New World, and since the Pilgrims didn't intend to go back to Europe, they dismantled the Mayflower and used it's lumber to build a barn.

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey, not the eagle, to be the U.S. national symbol. He considered the eagle a "bird of bad moral character" because it lives by being a shrewd thief.

Franklin Roosevelt tried to change the Thanksgiving holiday date to the next-to-last Thursday in November in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season, but was forced to move Thanksgiving back to its original date because of negative public response

The heaviest turkey ever raised weighed in at 86 lbs, about the size of a large German Shepherd. It was grown in England.

When Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin sat down to eat their first meal on the moon, their foil food packets contained roasted turkey and all of the trimmings.

Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.

Turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrier was broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Olympic games are big business, and any product with an Olympic endorsement, be it condoms, beer or life insurance (yes, Olympic life insurance) stands to make a fortune. But the International Olympic Committee has drawn the line at an official Olympic handgun. Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard spent two years lining up Swiss gun maker SIG Sauer and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to provide the commemorative side arms. The company made two prototypes, a pair of .40-caliber semiautomatics engraved with the Olympic rings and gold script. But the head of the IOC stopped the whole deal when he saw a sample. IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber says guns and world peace don't mix. "The rest of the world would not understand, nor accept, the idea of a firearm with the Olympic rings on it," he said.

PEORIA, Illinois - Prisoners can never get a "leg up" in jail. At least not 21-year old Derrick Echols, who had his false leg confiscated when he assaulted fellow inmate Rick Grant with it. According to Peoria County Sheriff Chuck Schofield, Echols's false leg fell off during the struggle so he grabbed it and tried to hit Grant. Because the limb was used as a weapon, the sheriff's office is treating it like a home-made knife or any other instrument that a prisoner might use to harm someone. No new charges have been filed stemming from the courthouse assault, but the matter will be referred to the Peoria County State Attorney's office for review.

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