Gobble this, and give thanks

Les Nessman would be proud. The Associated Press reports:

… North Carolina authorities say a shopper clubbed an alleged carjacker with a frozen turkey as he tried to steal a woman’s car in a grocery store parking lot Sunday.

Police say 30-year-old Fred Louis Ervin of Raleigh stole money from a gas station before running across the street to a Harris Teeter store in a town just south of Raleigh. Garner police say he began beating Irene Moorman Bailey while stealing her car.

Other shoppers came to her rescue, including one who hit Ervin with the turkey. Police did not release the person’s name.

Despite serious head injuries, Ervin got away in Bailey’s car and hit several other cars as he fled. But police arrested him a short time later.

So … there you go. Thanksgiving isn’t a complete waste of a holiday, after all.

(Okay, it never was. But, still, other holidays make sense. Christmas? Even if you throw the Christ part out of it, there’s a holiday in there somewhere. Easter? Same thing. But Thanksgiving falls somewhere between Columbus Day and slapping someone into semi-consciousness and then pissing on them as they lay moaning in the street.)

Gobble, gobble.