"stop grieving, it's only a chicken".

ali · Post by **ali** » 27 Oct 2005, 18:40

from the bbc news site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 372230.stm

Tributes left for a dead chicken

Flowers and tributes were left in an alleyway where the body of a mystery dead baby was found - before police realised it was only a chicken foetus.

A member of the public discovered the remains in a back alley in the Anfield area of Liverpool.

Police cordoned off the scene but soon realised that it was not a human but a chicken foetus.

Well-wishers had laid more than a dozen bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.

Local gossip

One of the cards read: "RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx."

Merseyside Police told the community on Monday to "stop grieving, it's only a chicken".

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "It seems a member of the public saw the remains of a foetus, which possibly resembled a human foetus, and called us.

"We cordoned off the area to investigate, as we would with any possible suspicious death, but it became apparent it was not a human foetus.

"The flowers and cards are obviously the result of local gossip, but we can assure people that the remains were not human."

Conservative MP and editor of The Spectator Boris Johnson was criticised last year after commenting in the magazine that Liverpudlians were "hooked on grief".

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:05

Don't mock - it's an easy mistake to make! When I was about 7 or 8 we thought we'd found a dead baby in a plastic bag on the pitch outside Towerbank - we were traumatised

It too turned out to be a dead chicken

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:11

A dead chicken, courtesy of McDonalds

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:13

But unlike the Scousers, you did not leave wreaths, flowers, cards......

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:15

Not so long ago one of the kids at school put a chicken's head (just like that one) in one of the teacher's drawers - oh how she laughed

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Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 27 Oct 2005, 22:20

Reaction to McDonalds not-so-happy meal:

The lady should actually be happy she got it. At least she knows what part of the chicken the thing came from. She should be more worried that the other nuggets are made out of feet and colons. If you got a face in your happy meal, you wouldn't be excited, but at least you'd know what ..... you're eating.

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 28 Oct 2005, 10:52

See if you just turned veggie instead, you could avoid all this angst, grieve properly for the chicken and know that you're not party to gobbling up the world's resources to feed animals in order to feed people...

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 28 Oct 2005, 22:00

mr magnolia wrote:See if you just turned veggie instead, you could avoid all this angst, grieve properly for the chicken and know that you're not party to gobbling up the world's resources to feed animals in order to feed people...

Very tempting especially when you read Bob's McDonalds story...

I'll probably last until it's time for my bacon roll in the morning

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 28 Oct 2005, 22:52

If we were meant to be veggies we wouldn't have been given such nice, big, strong, meat gnawing molars and a taste for blood

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 28 Oct 2005, 22:54

And don't forget the canine teeth for ripping the meat first.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 28 Oct 2005, 22:57

teddygirl wrote:And don't forget the canine teeth for ripping the meat first.

Can't beat a good steak ripping meal! Especially if it's on the bone, like a nice chop or T bone steak

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 28 Oct 2005, 23:16

Epykat wrote:
teddygirl wrote:And don't forget the canine teeth for ripping the meat first.
Can't beat a good steak ripping meal! Especially if it's on the bone, like a nice chop or T bone steak

Stop it, I'm getting hungry here.