Minnesota police chief apologizes after decapitating a five-year-old boy's pet chicken

Daily Mail ^ | 9-3-14 | Pete D'amato

[TurboZamboni]

Atwater Police Chief Trevor Berger 'dispatched' the chicken on August 16 after a neighbor complained of a 'chicken on the loose'

The bird, named Carson Petey, belonged to five-year-old Phoenix Turnbull Phoenix's mother Ashley Turnbull had been asked to remove three hens and two ducks she had given her son as a birthday gift, but was not home when Berger killed the hen

[TurboZamboni]

SWAT is only needed if it’s Superchicken-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y

[blueplum]

when will media be there to film the officer replacing the chicken with a new chicken?

[PLMerite]

Maybe it was a really big chicken:

[P.O.E.]

Besides, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

[Salamander]

It’s Chickenman!

[he’s everywhere! he’s everywhere!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcQfy1SavdQ

[Secret Agent Man]

i hope there’s a special place in hell for those that get their rocks off murdering innocent people and animals.

[SkyDancer]

[P.O.E.]

They used to play that on one of the Philly Morning Zoo shows back in the 80’s. One of the highlights of the morning commute.

[boycott]

Seems they would have sent swat team and armored vehicle to deal with a loose chicken.

[RegulatorCountry]

Chicken was behaving aggressively and disobeyed a direct order to get on the ground now. Officer feared for his life.

[Veggie Todd]

Boy, I say, boy, this aggression must stop!

[Responsibility2nd]

Did the chief choke the chicken? I’ve heard tell in the old days they would wring its neck.

[Salamander]

DC 101 carried it.

We also had The Greaseman.

Good times.

:)

[lightman]

Must have been kin to the Vicious Chicken of Bristol

[TurboZamboni]

Maybe the chicken had large talons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwl5-dvI9Xo

[PotatoHeadMick]

“If a chicken were to get out, I would contact my neighbor, or failing to do that, attempt to get the chicken back in his yard.”

There are still some honest men.

Chicken’s roam the streets freely in my neck of the woods. My neighbour’s chicken strolled into my lawn the other day and, well, you know, who’s going to miss a chicken? I mean, it could have got run down by a truck or anything.

It was yummy.

[EinNYC]

The idiot cop sure “headed off” this potential problem, eh?

[Lurker]

Way to many laws. Not nearly enough order.

[Alas Babylon!]

I was on the Greaseman’s show once in the studio at Silver Spring. A great guy!

DC101 was great back then. I loved the Good Ship Grease, The Lawman, Clinton and the Squealer, Ragnak (Grease’s alien child), the thirty second workout, and tales about his Daddy!

[dragnet2]

According to police reports, a neighbor repeatedly complained about a ‘chicken on the loose’ and said a hen wandered into a residential area near an elementary school.”

The school and the entire district went on lock down to ensure student safety. The following day they brought in counselors for the children.