Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Bird Brains

I remember, when I was a kid, when our dog, Ranger, went a-huntin', and brought back a battered but screaming chicken that sounded very much like a woman being attacked. Nothing like hearing a bloody murder at 6 a.m. to kick you out of your slumber! I guess the screaming works both ways :
Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China -- and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday.

... A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.

... A court ruled the boy's screaming was "the only unexpected abnormal sound" and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.

The boy's father was ordered to pay 1,800 yuan ($230) in compensation to the owner of the chickens.

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