"For my daughter, it's entirely normal to see chickens being killed and to help pluck them.
Five Italian military and coastguard helicopters joined local fishing boats in the area to help pluck survivors to safety.
'I've never understood how people who need help pluck up the courage to go and get help.' Perhaps she wasn't in such a bad way, then.
"I'll come back every day for the next 12 days to help pluck you free but after day 12, I'm leaving for Fairyland.
Each harvest will fetch about $200 at market, but half of that goes toward expenses, including pesticides and wages for locals who help pluck the ripe leaves quickly before they spoil.
Governor Perry called up the Texas National Guard on Tuesday, and crews in helicopters, boats and personal watercraft helped pluck stranded motorists and homeowners from floodwaters.
The producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who helped pluck Mr. Bay from the slush pile of commercial and music video directors to take on "Bad Boys," said that while the director's style, with its hyperkinetic movement and untraditional camera angles, can seem baffling in its component parts, he never loses sight of his end product.
Osnes has her own Fairy Godmother in Kathleen Marshall, who helped pluck Osnes out of the crowd in the reality TV competition Grease: You're The One That I Want!
Even so, customers were lining up, begging for help to pluck branches out of windows, suck water from basements and living rooms, and rebuild damaged roofs and homes.
And for seven games this season, he sat, waiting and watching as Nets Coach Byron Scott looked to the bench for help and plucked someone else.
