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50 chickens found loose in Philly school
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| 2/11/08
Posted on 02/11/2008 5:06:41 PM PST by lowbridge
PHILADELPHIA - Monday mornings are hard enough. Imagine finding 50 chickens running loose in your high school. Workers arriving about 5:30 a.m. to open Northeast High School in Philadelphia found dozens of hens and roosters wandering around the hallways. The birds were apparently brought to the school sometime over the weekend, said school district spokesman Fernando Gallard.
"We don't know where the chickens came from or who they belong to," Gallard said. "I'm pretty sure there is a very upset poultry farmer somewhere who wants them back."
The floors were covered with droppings and chicken feed. Most of the school's 3,600 students were sent home for the day because the school required extensive cleanup, he said.
A farmer was called to round up the birds and bring them to Fox Chase Farm, the district's agricultural school, Gallard said.
Police are checking surveillance tapes to see if they can determine the perpetrator of the fowl prank. The culprit will have to pay a hefty fine, said Gallard.
"It's not going to be chicken scratch," he said.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: birdflu; chickens; freepun; funkychicken; philadelphia
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:06:47 PM PST
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
I grew up in farm country. Chickens in school wasn’t all that uncommon. For special occasions like graduation it was pigs or cattle.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:09:00 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
To: cripplecreek
Some time before I graduated, the senior prank was to release 3 pigs in the school.
The rub was they were painted “1” “2” and “4”.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:14:22 PM PST
by
MacDorcha
(Do you feel that you can place full trust in your obsevations of the physical world?)
To: MacDorcha
I’ll bet they didn’t close the school for clean up either.
4
posted on
02/11/2008 5:17:33 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
To: lowbridge
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:21:02 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: Gabz
bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk..........
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:21:34 PM PST
by
tioga
(Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
To: Daffynition
Me and my prom date back in the day.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:31:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
To: tioga
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:34:05 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:37:51 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
To: lowbridge; Heatseeker; confederacy of dunces; Pyro7480; Dustbunny; Godebert; BykrBayb; ...
Yea, yea, yea — I know it’s Philly -— but when I read this in the Snewz Urinal this morning my first thought was DelMarVa (below the canal) yes -— but Philly????????
I think it’s funny.
The worst prank I remember was in 8th grade when we lifted the teacher’s VW Bug over the school yard fence ........ and I went to a neighborhood Catholic school!!!!!
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:39:16 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: lowbridge; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; dighton
50 chickens found loose in Philly school Poultry in motion.
To: Gabz
We directed all the traffic on Rte 7. into the town dump.
During rush hour.
It was a dead-end road.
The we ran away.
12
posted on
02/11/2008 5:44:15 PM PST
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: cripplecreek
Blind dates. High school. UGH.
13
posted on
02/11/2008 5:44:38 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: lowbridge; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; dighton
50 chickens found loose . . .
To: patton; Gabz
LOL! to both of your pranks (which hurts with the flu I have)!! ;-)
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:45:27 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:45:42 PM PST
by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: Pyro7480
Sorry - if one did that on route 7 today, it would probably result in the death penalty.
But it was the seventies, and we were obnoxious kids...
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:49:43 PM PST
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
Oh yeah! I’ve driven Virginia Route 7, and it ain’t fun during “normal” hours.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:51:56 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Charles Henrickson
LOL! The Far Side is still funny and fresh after all these years.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:52:45 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:54:43 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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