I have sworn for years that if I ever encounterd these idiots in person that I would go in and get some chicken just ot eat in front of them, so I pulled right in. I was the only car in the parking lot just before noon, and the only customer in the place, much to the delight of PETA. I asken for a small serving of chicken and the manager asked "Are you with them?" pointing at the morons. "No, as a matter of fact I am going to go picket them!" I responded. He asked "regular or crispy" processed my order and said "On The House, go get em". So I did. Many of my FReeper FRiends know that I can be a handfull when I picket leftists, and this was no exception.
I proceeded out to my truck, and like the well prepared FReeper that I am, I came up with a large cardboard box and a giant black marker. I cut up the box, taped it up to make a sign and then in big black letters I wrote "IGNORE PETA, EAT CHICKEN". I then grabbed a drumstick and proceeded to ruin their party.
I stationed myself on the sidewalk a comfortable distance up traffic from them and started my protest. Holding my sign with one hand and gnawing on a drumstick. It was fun, and their leader was not amused. He came up to me whining something about not caring about chicken cruelty and I said to him point blank "LEAVE ME ALONE". The was not good enough for this PETA puke so he continued to stand at a safe distance and try to talk some sense into me. What he didn't know was that I am well versed on PETA and was laying for him.
"So what to you have against PETA?" he asked, so I told him that they there are right up there with commie eco-terrorists in my book (while gnawing on a drumstick). Then I would yell out to the passing cars "Finger Lickin Good!" and wave my drumstick in the air.
This leftist PETA group leader obviously had never encountered a FReeper before, so he tried the dialog approach. LOL! He told me all about him being an employee of PETA and was from Virginia. He was on a 15 state tour and had about 10 college chicks with him (He was in his mid-20's and wasn't there just for the chickens I guess). Well, a real live EMPLOYEE of PETA, and I'm standing there gnawing on chicken. Opportunity knocking, time to sieze the day.
"Don't you care about the welfare of chickens?" he asked. "Nope" I said as I threw the drumstick bone in the truck and grabbed a thigh, extra crispy. "My turn" I said, "What about those PETA employees that just got caught throwing 30 or so dog and cat carcasses in a dumpster?". "They don't work for PETA anymore", he replied. "Where is the naked woman in a cage? Come on, your PETA, lets see your naked woman in a cage". "So your from Virginia, well son, this is Wyoming. Are you brain dead?" He was speechless, LOL!
The whole time this is going on, the good citizens of Cheyenne, Wyoming were cruising by. Then they came for chicken. I would see a ranch vehicle approacing and hold up my sign and chicken thigh, yelling "Finger Licken Good!". The brakes and turn signal would come on and here they came, yelling at PETA as they entered the parking lot and walked into the building. Then they would exit with a drumstick in their hand and yell at the PETA people some more. In 15 minuets the parking lot was full and the driveup had a line. I was having fun pointing that out.
Then the press showed up. Two newspaper photographers showed up, running all over the place snapping photos. They loved taking pictures of me gnawing on that chicken. LOL! They would line me up with all those chicken costumes in the background.
What a hoot! Thanks KFC!
PETA packed up and left.
Here is their internal PETA announcement of the planned event:
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Beleaguered ‘Bird’ Sets Sights on Local KFC to Protest Farming and Slaughter Abuses
For Immediate Release:
August 8, 2005
Contact:
Benjamin Goldsmith 757-622-XXXX
Cheyenne, Wyo. — Holding signs that read, "The Colonel’s Secret Recipe: Live Scalding, Painful Debeaking, Crippled Chickens," members of PETA—including an activist wearing a body screen TV showing shocking undercover video footage of chickens in factory farms and slaughterhouses—will protest KFC suppliers’ abusive treatment of chickens at a local KFC restaurant. A giant, crippled "chicken" will cross the road in front of the restaurant, while activists hand out leaflets:
Date: Tuesday, August 9
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: KFC, 801 E. Lincolnway
What is done to chickens would be illegal if it were done to dogs, cats, cows, or pigs. However, chickens are excluded from the only federal law that protects farmed animals, the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. An undercover investigation at a Moorefield, W.Va., slaughterhouse that supplies chickens to KFC revealed workers kicking, throwing, and stomping on live birds. Recently, PETA released the findings of an undercover investigation of a slaughterhouse operated by KFC’s number one supplier, Tyson Foods, and found workers ripping conscious chickens’ heads off, slaughter machinery systematically mutilating chickens, and thousands of birds being scalded to death after entering the scalding tank while completely conscious.
PETA attempted to work with Yum! Brands executives prior to launching its "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" Campaign, but despite assurances made long ago by Senior Vice President Jonathan Blum that KFC would "raise the bar" on animal welfare, the company refuses to eliminate the worst abuses. Seinfeld star and ex-KFC pitchman Jason Alexander had his contract with KFC canceled after PETA enlisted him to speak to company execs about the suffering of chickens. PETA has had additional high-profile support from Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama, comedian Richard Pryor, rock icons Sir Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde, actors Pamela Anderson and Bea Arthur, and civil-rights leaders the Rev. Al Sharpton, Alice Walker, Kweisi Mfume, Dick Gregory, and Dr. Cornel West.
"KFC has the ability to stop this cruelty today, simply by implementing the changes recommended by its own advisors," says PETA Director of Vegan Campaigns Bruce Friedrich. "While KFC drags its feet, chickens continue to suffer unnecessarily."
For more information, please visit PETA’s Web site KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.
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What a hoot you are! I bet the PETA rep was about 103lbs and about a shade darker then Elmers Glue. I'm right, aren't I??? ;-)
You're the best! I hope someone can post the pictures from the local news.
You do good work. I hope that it makes all the news stations in Cheyenne.
If they come to the Central Valley of California we should get a group together to Freep them. Then PETA will know that not all of California made up of fruits and nuts.
I'm so proud. : D
Sir, I owe you a cup of Joe for a great freep well done.
LOLOLOL!!
Well done and thank you!!!! Funny you should mention it, but my car smelled like KFC all day today.. yum!
Well done Trteamer!
Oscar Mayer, one of the largest sellers of pig flesh in the world, is holding a contest that we want you to enter! Has PETA formed an unholy alliance with a major purveyor of dead, tortured animals? Not at all. Oscar Mayer is letting 20 people use the Wienermobile (a giant hot dog-shaped bus) for one day. We want you to win this contest and then work with us to put the Wienermobile to good use, PETA-style! With a bus this big, there's no shortage of colorful ways that we can use the Wienermobile to tell everyone how bad eating meat is for people and animals.
The contest asks for a 100-word essay on what you would do with the Wienermobile if you win. Please use your creative talents to come up with an idea that would appeal to Oscar Mayer’s judges (so you probably shouldn’t mention animal rights or vegetarianism).
When you win, please contact PETA immediately at VegInfo@peta.org or 757-962-8384. The contest ends on July 28, so please enter as soon as possible.
While I share some of PETA's concerns about cruelty to livestock, they are too off the wall to garner my support. Humane treatment of animals does not equal animal rights.
I feel like I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. While I see the need for watchdog groups, I also see the kind of people who run them. There has to be a more moderate organization somewhere in this galaxy.
Awesome! I just love Cheyenne.
They knew the job was dangerous when they took it - Baaa-CAAWWW!
Grate job!
Fun finger-lickin' FReep! Perfect!
In case you haven't seen this.
Nice work. What a hoot!
LMAOROTF!!!!!
WELL DONE!
Bustin' a gut here...LOL!
Excellent work!
Oh PLEASE PLEASE post any pics! This is priceless!