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Chicken Fined For Crossing Road

Min Bannister

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Well okay they let it off in the end but the fact it was charged in the first place is pretty amusing!

BBC

A chicken fined $54 for illegally crossing a road in California has had the charge thrown out by a court.

The fine was dismissed after a lawyer for the bird's owners argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be classified as livestock.

California law bans livestock from highways, but not domestic animals.

Linc and Helena Moore had been fined on 26 March after their chicken wandered onto a road in the small rural mining town of Johannesburg in Kern county.

They were warned by their lawyer that if the bird continued to cross the road unattended they could face a minor misdemeanour infraction, the Daily Independent newspaper reported.

The Moores say they were fined because of their repeated complaints that local authorities had not done enough to curb off-road drivers.

"For the last two-and-a-half years, no-one has been able to stop the kids riding their bikes in the middle of the road or the neighbours' dogs running around our neighbourhood," Linc Moore was quoted as saying.

"But when our chicken escaped and crossed the road once it became a huge issue."

Officials from the sheriff's department rejected the allegations.

The couple are now seeking legal assistance to file harassment charges against Kern County's Sheriff Department.
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So at long last we have the answer to

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"


And the answer (as in so many other cases!) is

- to make money for lawyers!
 
Why did the chicken cross the road? Police want to know!

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-37584873

Police have issued an appeal for information about why a chicken was seen crossing the road in Dundee.

Officers were called to East Marketgait in the city at 08:30 after reports of the bird "giving passing motorists cause for concern".

The chicken was traced by officers and taken to a police station, with the SSPCA brought in to care for it.

The force is working to trace the bird's owner, and appealed for "any information" about the incident.

Social media reports suggested up to three uniformed officers were seen "chasing" the chicken.
 
kamalktk said:
Why did the chicken cross the road? Police want to know!

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-37584873

Police have issued an appeal for information about why a chicken was seen crossing the road in Dundee.

Officers were called to East Marketgait in the city at 08:30 after reports of the bird "giving passing motorists cause for concern".

The chicken was traced by officers and taken to a police station, with the SSPCA brought in to care for it.

The force is working to trace the bird's owner, and appealed for "any information" about the incident.

Social media reports suggested up to three uniformed officers were seen "chasing" the chicken.
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I know the area well and it's certainly not the sort of place you'd expect to see a chicken. There are student flats in the area which might explain things...
There are also urban foxes so the chicken was lucky he was nicked.
 
Frasier Buddolph said:
Lucky it wasn't a monkey trying to cross the road in Hartlepool.
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You probably don't believe the Hartlepool monkey story in the first place but in case you do, it's doubtful. Source


It's supposed to have happened in the Napoleonic War but no exact date exists.

The original source was a song written at least 40 years after the incident supposedly happened & Hartlepool is never mentioned, nor any location at all.

There's an earlier Scottish song with a similar theme about a shipwreck, also features a monkey hanging, supposedly based on a different 'true' event in 1772. To this day people from Peterhead apparently still taunt those from Boddam with "Fa [who] hangit the monkey?"
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It seems Hartlepool has little else going for it & have enthusiastically embraced the legend.

In 2002, when Hartlepool decided to have a directly elected mayor, all the three major political parties gave their candidate, and Hartlepool United sent their own candidate, Stuart Drummond, the man in the monkey suit. He didn’t actively campaign and his only promise was giving free bananas to schoolchildren. He narrowly won. He was elected two more times, and would likely still be serving if the people of Hartlepool hadn’t decided to go back to the old council system last year.
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Whether he ever came good on his promise of free bananas I don't know.
 
kamalktk said:
Why did the chicken cross the road? Police want to know!

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-37584873

Police have issued an appeal for information about why a chicken was seen crossing the road in Dundee.

Officers were called to East Marketgait in the city at 08:30 after reports of the bird "giving passing motorists cause for concern".

The chicken was traced by officers and taken to a police station, with the SSPCA brought in to care for it.

The force is working to trace the bird's owner, and appealed for "any information" about the incident.

Social media reports suggested up to three uniformed officers were seen "chasing" the chicken.
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That made the news and got the police all agitated?
There's a chicken farm near me where they routinely have a couple of escaped birds pecking away on the grass verge outside, right next to a busy road.
 
Maybe the chicken crossed the road because the road was skimming off the top & the chicken had to send a message to the other roads that the chicken was not taking any shit.
 
The latest reports say the chicken was heading towards the bookies for a little flutter.
 
In an alternative universe is there a chicken that didn't cross the road ?

Do people there ask 'why didn't the chicken cross the road ?' .

INT21
 
INT21 said:
In an alternative universe is there a chicken that didn't cross the road ?

Do people there ask 'why didn't the chicken cross the road ?' .

INT21
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In yet another universe, or possibly another thread, there would be someone banging on about how the whole chicken-road-crossing scenario is in fact supernatural.
 
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