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A Potosi, Mo., man who was showing off a turkey he thought he'd killed was shot in the leg when the wounded bird thrashed about in his car trunk and triggered a loaded shotgun.

"Apparently, the turkeys are fighting back," said county Sheriff Ron Skiles.

To make matters worse, it turned out that Larry Lands, around 40, and his son, Larry Jr., 16, were hunting a week before the start of the Missouri turkey season and will be fined, the sheriff said.

According to the Associated Press, the accident occurred after Lands shot the turkey and put it in his car with the loaded shotgun. They drove to a neighbor's house to show off the bird.

As the son pulled the turkey from the trunk it began struggling and one of its claws touched the trigger, the sheriff said. The shot went through the side panel of the car and into the elder Lands' leg.

Lands was in satisfactory condition in a local hospital.

Potosi is 50 miles southwest of St. Louis.

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