Posted on 09/06/2006 1:04:02 PM PDT by Abathar
Neighbor Says There Were Dead Chickens All Over
CHESHIRE, Ore. -- An Oregon woman is accused of shooting her husband after he shot her pet chicken.
The Eugene-Register Guard reported Mary Kay Gray, 58, has been jailed on felony assault charges.
Her husband, Stanley Edward Gray, 43, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The chicken died at the scene.
Lane County sheriff's Sgt. Clint Riley said the couple had been working around their yard and drinking on Labor Day. They got into an argument after Stanley Gray shot the chicken with a .44 caliber handgun.
"We don't know if it was an accident or if it was on purpose," Riley said of the chicken's death. "It depends who you ask."
But sheriff's deputies said Gray shot her husband with a .22 caliber rifle in an apparent act of retaliation.
A neighbor said when she arrived home Monday night there were police cars clustered at the bottom of the driveway and deputies escorted her to her front door.
"It looked like 'CSI,' " Cheyenne Dickenson told the Register-Guard. "There were dead chickens lying all over the place."
Why shoot the chicken when you can just choke it?
Perhaps, the chicken was, er, choked?
I guess he should have choked the chicken instead of shooting it, eh?
He shouldn't ought to done that.
Wow! You guys are too fast for me!
I figured that would be the #1 response
I thought it had to be Scrappleface...
Since it's just a chicken, it's a terrible crime.
But if it was a cat or dog, this thread would have 497 replies by now, commending the woman.
(I would not be among them).
Stanley Gray shot the chicken with a .44 caliber handgun
"The chicken died at the scene."
I don't know why, but this line makes me laugh.
Leni
.44 for a chicken? sounds like overkill...he shoulda just chopped its head off and thrown it in the pot with some potatoes.
He didn't have to clean it though.
It was inevitable.
:-D )))
"CSI - Rio Linda" ?
Time to ban privately owned chickens. After all, nobody needs to keep a privately-owned chicken, even to eat: everything else tastes like it!
Sure as heck won't leave much chicken!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because someone shot it with a .44 and it got blown across.
Guns. Booze. Chickens. Put them together, and you've got a day of excitement in Cheshire, Ore.
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