Posted on 12/15/2005 7:26:00 AM PST by presidio9
Irish police issued a traffic hazard alert warning motorists to be beware of chickens crossing the road.
Drivers were asked to use "extreme caution" near Ballinagh, County Cavan in the north Midlands after a truck carrying 6,500 chickens overturned and shed its load.
AA Roadwatch also warned rush-hour traffic in the area to be extra vigilant because of chickens flying loose.
On RTE state radio the owner of the chickens said a team of about 20 employees had been sent to the scene and it was hoped they would be able to catch all the feathered escapees in about four hours.
Asked about reports that there was an added hazard of a slippery surface on the road as a result of some panicked chickens laying eggs he said: "That's what chickens do."
Driver shouda yell: "Freeze" at the chickens and then proceed to collect them frozen. (Unless they had winter designer clothing.)
Just from the headline, I'd say this probably should have happened in FRANCE not IRELAND.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
Bad dad.... bad dad.... bad dad....
Chickens in Cavan, I would never have guessed...
Irish chicken
Do you notice anything about this story?
No PETA whiners over here wondering how 6,500 chickens were in the one truck!!!
It's at times like this, I love my country - as quirky as it is! *LOL*
When I heard about this story on the radio this morning on my way to the office, I laughed my head off and thought..'Only in Ireland!!!'
yeah, its just the sort of shenanigans those wee hoors of Cavan chickens would get up to. For some reason when I lived in Dublin, everyone I met and was friends with were from County Cavan - from nowhere else in the whole of the Republic of Ireland (I might have met someone once from Meath... fuzzy recollections). Derry chickens have more manners.
Well, what I meant was a sarcastic reference to the fact that the poultry business is big in Cavan.
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