The Oven Roasted Jaws of Life?

When a Thanksgiving-proximate story features quick thinking, heroism, the phrase “former carnival worker”, a Katrina survivor and a Norbest frozen turkeys, how the hell can I not post it?

Man uses turkey to rescue 2 from car
By Angela Rozas
Tribune staff reporter

November 22, 2005

Mark Copsy saw the smoke inside the car, and watched as the vehicle careered into a curb in Northlake on Sunday afternoon. It took him only a moment to realize the horror--the car was on fire, and there were people inside. Copsy and his 12-year-old son ran the half-block to help.

When they got to the car, Copsy, 42, said he couldn't open the door. Inside, he could see an elderly man in the driver's seat. A female passenger sat next to him, her face white. He tried to smash the glass with his foot, but couldn't do it. In his hands, he held a 20-pound frozen Norbest turkey he and his son had just bought for Thanksgiving.

"I said, `Hell, I'll just use the damn turkey.' And that's what I did," Copsy said. He yelled for the driver to cover his face, and used the turkey to smash out three windows.
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Copsy, a former carnival worker and Hurricane Katrina evacuee from Marrero, La., is living with his wife and son in her mother's home in Northlake
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