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50 chickens found loose in Philly school
AP/Yahoo ^ | 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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1 posted on 02/11/2008 5:06:47 PM PST by lowbridge
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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.


2 posted on 02/11/2008 5:09:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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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”.


3 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?)
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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.))
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To: lowbridge

5 posted on 02/11/2008 5:21:02 PM PST by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Gabz

bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk..........


6 posted on 02/11/2008 5:21:34 PM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: Daffynition
Me and my prom date back in the day.

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7 posted on 02/11/2008 5:31:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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To: tioga

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!


8 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)
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To: lowbridge

Don’t EGG me on!


9 posted on 02/11/2008 5:37:51 PM PST by CIDKauf
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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!!!!!


10 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)
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To: lowbridge; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; dighton
50 chickens found loose in Philly school

Poultry in motion.

11 posted on 02/11/2008 5:42:11 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (HENrickson)
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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)
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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.)
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To: lowbridge; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; dighton
50 chickens found loose . . .


14 posted on 02/11/2008 5:45:10 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (HENrickson)
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To: patton; Gabz

LOL! to both of your pranks (which hurts with the flu I have)!! ;-)


15 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)
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To: Slings and Arrows

/mark


16 posted on 02/11/2008 5:45:42 PM PST by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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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...


17 posted on 02/11/2008 5:49:43 PM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: patton

Oh yeah! I’ve driven Virginia Route 7, and it ain’t fun during “normal” hours.


18 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)
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To: Charles Henrickson

LOL! The Far Side is still funny and fresh after all these years.


19 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)
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To: Daffynition
Chicken lady eh?
20 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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