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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

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TO GET AWAY FROM THE TRUCK IT WAS RIDING ON this morning (Monday) after it rolled over.  The tractor-trailer was hauling crates carrying 6,300 live chickens when it rolled on a highway entrance ramp around 11 am in Berks County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

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WFMZ

Wyomissing Police say that no humans were injured, but the chicken fatality count was sizable.  The road was fowled up for over two hours as several people herded the loose chickens into fresh crates to be taken away.

WTXF Ch. 29 Philadelphia has some raw video of the roundup:

Posted by on December 7, 2009 • Filed under: News, Videos • Tagged: , ,
  • mr618

    FG, you should be ashamed of yourself for saying the road was “fowled up.” Go wash your mouth with coffee right now, young man. In a Firegeezer mug, of course. And we demand photographic proof.

  • firegeezer

    You're just trying to egg me on, aren't you?

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  • http://www.firedaily.com Fire Daily

    It's sad beakause that driver pecked a helluva time to cluck up traffic

  • firegeezer

    All because somebody told him to “get plucked”

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  • Nick

    I think this gives a new meaning to the term “flipping the bird”!

  • ofd020

    All these comments on a story like this tend to crack me up

  • firegeezer

    I'm afraid the facts are getting a little scrambled, though.

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  • ofd020

    All these comments on a story like this tend to crack me up

  • firegeezer

    I'm afraid the facts are getting a little scrambled, though.

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  • ofd020

    All these comments on a story like this tend to crack me up

  • firegeezer

    I'm afraid the facts are getting a little scrambled, though.

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  • ofd020

    All these comments on a story like this tend to crack me up

  • firegeezer

    I'm afraid the facts are getting a little scrambled, though.

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