Amok, amok, amok!
Folks, I could make this up (because I have a vivid imagination), but this time I am not. As it turns out, roving chickens are terrorizing a neighborhood very close to me.
From WBAL-TV:
POSTED: 5:46 am EDT May 24, 2005 UPDATED: 6:18 am EDT May 24, 2005 COLUMBIA, Md. -- There is a real-life chicken run going on in Columbia. Since March, chickens and roosters have been terrorizing several neighborhoods near the Columbia Town Center.
WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser said the community of Barnside in Columbia is truly living up to its name after police said 18 chickens and roosters invaded the neighborhood.
Melser said while most have been caught, two are really fowling things up. He reported that two roosters have taken over the neighborhood and said it looks like leaving is not an option.
"Right now, we're just trying to take the roosters back out of that area," said Jennifer Reidy of the Howard County police. "Save the roosters -- trying to keep them safe."
Howard County animal control has tried 10 times to catch the pesky poultry, but each time they have come up empty-handed.
"They were camped out in that tree," James Duga said. "They didn't catch any roosters, no."
"All you hear is cockle-doodle-doo," Kate Cobb said. "I've gotten to the point where I can fall back asleep but they still wake me up everyday."
Melser reported that neighbors have been left with a bad taste in their mouths, as their new tenants have become an unwelcome community alarm clock that goes off really, really early.
"So every morning at 4 a.m., the roosters would start crowing," Duga said. "I would shout, 'Shut up! Leave me alone! I'm sleeping!'"
Police aren't sure how the roosters and chickens got here in the first place. Residents said they think it was a prank gone wrong.
In the meantime, all they can do it wait and hope and try to find time for a midday nap.
"They don't take Saturday and Sunday off," Cobb said. "I wish they did."Melser said the roosters and chickens that were caught were sent to a sanctuary on the eastern shore. He said as far as the last two, they're at large in Columbia.
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It seems as if weird stories like this follow me around....and they usually involve chicken somehow.
Remember the freak chicken defrosting incident?
Maybe these ones are returning to seek vengeance on their once-frozen-and-then-thawed brother.
Folks, I could make this up (because I have a vivid imagination), but this time I am not. As it turns out, roving chickens are terrorizing a neighborhood very close to me.
From WBAL-TV:
Roosters 'Terrorize' Columbia Neighborhood
WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser said the community of Barnside in Columbia is truly living up to its name after police said 18 chickens and roosters invaded the neighborhood.
Melser said while most have been caught, two are really fowling things up. He reported that two roosters have taken over the neighborhood and said it looks like leaving is not an option.
"Right now, we're just trying to take the roosters back out of that area," said Jennifer Reidy of the Howard County police. "Save the roosters -- trying to keep them safe."
Howard County animal control has tried 10 times to catch the pesky poultry, but each time they have come up empty-handed.
"They were camped out in that tree," James Duga said. "They didn't catch any roosters, no."
"All you hear is cockle-doodle-doo," Kate Cobb said. "I've gotten to the point where I can fall back asleep but they still wake me up everyday."
Melser reported that neighbors have been left with a bad taste in their mouths, as their new tenants have become an unwelcome community alarm clock that goes off really, really early.
"So every morning at 4 a.m., the roosters would start crowing," Duga said. "I would shout, 'Shut up! Leave me alone! I'm sleeping!'"
Police aren't sure how the roosters and chickens got here in the first place. Residents said they think it was a prank gone wrong.
In the meantime, all they can do it wait and hope and try to find time for a midday nap.
"They don't take Saturday and Sunday off," Cobb said. "I wish they did."Melser said the roosters and chickens that were caught were sent to a sanctuary on the eastern shore. He said as far as the last two, they're at large in Columbia.
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It seems as if weird stories like this follow me around....and they usually involve chicken somehow.
Remember the freak chicken defrosting incident?
Maybe these ones are returning to seek vengeance on their once-frozen-and-then-thawed brother.
posted by H at
2:43 PM
1 Comments:
Can you & Amy get to a designated safe place. such as your local high school, where the Red Cross can hand out blankets and bottled water? it's dangerous out there in them 'burbs.
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