Fouled Fowl

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Now for a Wednesday Diversion: As if chickens in North Pole, Alaska don't have enough to worry about; what with winter temperatures at -40°F, foxes, coyotes, wolves, bears, wolverines, weasels, lynx, eagles, and people all wanting to enjoy them for dinner – now they have to endure this.
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Mystery surrounds 26 headless chickens in North Pole
COOP: Bodies laid in a lollipop pattern, heads gone; three survived.
By JAMES HALPIN Published: May 25th, 2010 10:54 PM

Twenty-six chickens were mysteriously beheaded at a North Pole chicken coop this week. Then things got weird.

Troopers say they were called to a home on Sharon Road on Monday to a report of a mass chicken slaughter, with the carcasses laid out in a peculiar pattern on the ground.

The homeowners, who live in a semi-rural wooded neighborhood with large lots, had 29 white chickens in a backyard coop, said Trooper Ken Vanspronsen, who responded to the scene.

Sometime overnight Sunday, someone crept in and tore their heads off, but the homeowners told troopers they didn't hear anything unusual. They woke up Monday and went out to feed the chickens, when they discovered 26 of them dead.
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There was no sign of the heads, trooper’s spokeswoman Megan Peters said. The carcasses had been laid out in a north-south pattern -- oriented with the coop -- in a roughly 12- to 15-foot line on the ground with a circular arrangement of corpses at one end, in something of a lollipop pattern.
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I dunno – but possibly Santa’s Little Helpers are practicing witchcraft? Who else would arrange the headless fowl in a lollipop pattern, hmmm? I, of course, blame Obama. You have to admit, a headless chicken is a LOT like a progressive liberal (only smarter).
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