2013 ‘Thanksgiving Prank - Pregnant Turkey’ Goes Viral Again; Westboro Baptist Church Becomes Thanksgiving Prank Victim
Uploaded on YouTube in 2013, the “Thanksgiving Prank - Pregnant Turkey” video once again went viral on this year's Thanksgiving.
The video features a mother named Nerissa Hawkinson filming her teenage daughter who was the victim of the prank.
After finding a “baby turkey” inside the already cooked larger turkey while removing stuffing, the daughter is in tears saying, “Mom this isn’t funny. I am crying. Mom, it’s a baby turkey in the turkey’s a girl. I’m sad right now. Stop recording. Mom she was pregnant!”
In its second year of being viral, the “Thanksgiving Prank - Pregnant Turkey” video has racked up 6.7 million views. It also has received polarized opinions from commenters.
YouTuber J.K. James commented that it was hilarious that the teenage girl thought the turkey was pregnant and she seemed so gullible that she did not know turkeys are actually born from eggs. He added that her reaction was priceless after she was asked her to get the filling out with a Cornish hen studded inside the turkey.
On the other hand, one of the negative comments stated that it was ironic for the girl to be "perfectly fine with murdering animals to eat them, but if it's a baby animal then it's worth crying over.”
Watch the “Thanksgiving Prank - Pregnant Turkey” video here:
Credits: YouTube/Nerissa Hawkinson
Meanwhile, numerous calls jammed the phone lines of the Westboro Baptist Church on Thanksgiving after the satirical website National Report published a story that encouraged readers to contact the “Turkey Safety Hotline” due to a recall of turkeys with avian flu.
It turned out, however, that the contact number provided in the hoax story belongs to Westboro Baptist Church.
In an email, the National Report publisher Allen Montgomery told the Huffington Post, “While the turkey story certainly received a fair amount of attention, WBC has long been a target of ours and their number has appeared in several National Report stories.”