What happens to the turkey after it's pardoned?

[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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20081126/pl_ynews/ynews_pl162;_ylt=AuSVJlxpD44UBWAg8ii1w.UDq594

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.

[DJ13]

1. He's forced to live in a halfway house and register as a flocking addict

[panader0]

2. At the taxpayers expense?

[MineralMan]

3. I'm pretty sure that Palin's turkey

Went into the cone, right after they stopped filming.

[greendog]

4. Moose Stew and Pardoned Turkey Pie.

Mmmmm. :9

Thanksgiving in Wasilla sure is fun.
:rofl:

[Cleita]

6. Hehe. Looks like we both posted the same sentiment at the same time. n/t

[MineralMan]

7. Great minds

think alike, eh?

[Cleita]

5. The Presidential turkey goes to Disneyland. I have a feeling Sarah Palin's

turkey went into the cone when the cameras were gone.

[kimmerspixelated]

8. Once engulfed and devoured

by a human, it travels down a very bubbly path, and then before traveling down a brown canal, it decides to let off what is known as a "turkey fart". For anyone within the embaressing proximity of said human, the turkey has launched it's repulsive revenge.

[cornermouse]

9. Only one turkey, Pumpkin, got the flight to Disneyland.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/26/ap/preswho/main4635152.shtml?source=search_story

With a smile and some nostalgic words, President George W. Bush spared the national Thanksgiving turkey on Wednesday, honoring a tradition that dates to Harry Truman's presidency. The 45-pound bird, named "Pumpkin" through an online vote, behaved quietly while the president presided over a Rose Garden ceremony.

The other name on the ticket, a backup bird with the chosen name of "Pecan," was nowhere to be seen. Undisclosed location, Bush joked.