Dead Chicken, Northeast corner of Marcus Garvey Park
I spent much of yesterday hunting and eating wild mushrooms in Connecticut. Walking home from the MetroNorth stop I see this dead chicken in the street. Are there, were there, chickens living in the park? I don't know. Too tired to write more now. Soon, though, I'll put up photos from my DC trip, mushroom foraging pictures, and even a few hot booty action photos! Oh, where to begin...
yikes. i hope it didn't have the flu.
Posted by: tien | 24 October 2005 at 09:20 AM
Chickens are illegal to own as house pets. Maybe he was at some market. He doesn't looked like a cockfighting chicken.
Posted by: Jen | 24 October 2005 at 02:30 PM
I was tempted to call 311 and report it, but it was after midnight and I was too sleepy and what would I say? "I'd like to report a dead chicken"?
Yeah, the legs and feathers were too pristine for it to be a cockfighting chicken. The last live poultry market in Manhattan is at 126th and Amsterdam. That's a long walk but I wonder if it escaped.
Posted by: Joe | 24 October 2005 at 04:36 PM
That is upsetting. It could have been stolen from the poultry market. Whoever took it was probably hiding it under his jacket, the chicken wriggled loose, only to get hit by a car. Joe, you should submit this as a premise for a Law + Order episode.
Posted by: Marie | 26 October 2005 at 05:29 PM
The picture, that is. Not my lame made-up story.
Posted by: Marie | 26 October 2005 at 05:30 PM
Out of the keyboards of innocents... they were filming an episode of Law and Order: SVU on that block this week! Maybe the chicken was the special victim. On second thought, I don't want to think about it.
Posted by: joe | 26 October 2005 at 11:11 PM