What happens to the turkey after it's pardoned? [View All]

[Mark E. Smith]

Every year since Harry Truman was in office, the president pardons a
turkey. President Bush pardoned Pumpkin the turkey (named by the
American people via Web vote on the White House website) Wednesday
morning.

So what happens then to a pardoned turkey?

It goes to Disneyland.

That's not a joke. The turkey really is going to Disneyland.

Like many Super Bowl-winning quarterback before it, the pardoned
turkey (and his less photo-friendly understudy Pecan, who also gets
a pardon) gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland where Pumpkin
will be the Grand Marshal of Disney's Thanksgiving Day parade.

(Later ..)

Then Pumpkin and his sidekick Pecan will head off to Disney's
Frontierland where they'll make their home in the on-site petting zoo
for the remainder of their days.

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Being a Southern California kind of guy, I can tell you for certain that
many very special turkeys go to Disneyland.

So if Dick Cheney is pardoned, will he be sent to Disneyland as well?
Not sure that he would make much of an addition to the Disney
petting zoo. He might bite the children.