Charities across the nation are serving record numbers of people this week in advance of he Thanksgiving holiday — and there just aren’t enough turkeys for everybody. In Darlington, S.C., local businesses prepared 1,000 turkeys to give away on Tuesday, reports Tonya Brown for Carolina Live, but by 11 a.m. twice that many people had showed up and the birds were long gone. The crowd was so overwhelming that local police had to come in for traffic and crowd control. In Opa-locka, Fla., people started lining up outside city hall six hours before doors opened for turkey handouts, reports Helen Berggren for the Miami Herald. Because of the crowd, city officials — some of whom donated hundreds of dollars of their own money — started handing out turkeys two hours ahead of schedule. By noon, all 1,350 birds were gone. In Lafeyette, Ind., on Monday, hundreds of residents lined up before sunrise in near-freezing temperatures, according to the Journal & Courier’s Dorothy Schneider. ‘I just want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart,’ said Elva Casas, who recently lost her job and insurance and worried about feeding her four children. All 1,200 turkeys were given […]