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Minnesota police chief apologizes after decapitating a five-year-old boy's pet chicken
Daily Mail ^ | 9-3-14 | Pete D'amato

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:48:36 PM PDT by 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

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: atwater; beheading; chicken; chief; donutwatch; minnesota
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To: dragnet2; shibumi

First, it was cows with guns....


41 posted on 09/03/2014 8:04:04 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Really?

Lucky you!

I had an awfully bad teenage crush on him.

:)


42 posted on 09/03/2014 8:05:06 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Policing while muslim?


43 posted on 09/03/2014 8:05:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Salamander

The principal showed up in a chicken suit the next day to calm the children’s fears. But some parents complained it made their children cry.


44 posted on 09/03/2014 8:08:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

44 posts and nobody’s mentioned Mike?

http://life.time.com/curiosities/mike-the-headless-chicken-photos-of-a-famously-tough-fowl/#1


45 posted on 09/03/2014 8:11:30 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: Salamander


46 posted on 09/03/2014 8:17:37 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Not another peep outta you!


47 posted on 09/03/2014 8:18:35 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

... a “beheading ...!


48 posted on 09/03/2014 8:20:19 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Salamander
"I'm Melting!"


49 posted on 09/03/2014 8:30:14 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Salamander

Funny thread.
mike the headless chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqDjRCHyjTY


50 posted on 09/03/2014 8:31:57 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: TurboZamboni

Did the chief behead the chicken by biting the head off? Then he must have been channeling his inner Ozzy. He just better stay away from the Alamo (although Bill McManus may give him a pass).


51 posted on 09/03/2014 8:36:56 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: TurboZamboni

I never witnessed it, but my wife says her Nebraska relatives stepped on the chicken’s head and pulled it off.
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52 posted on 09/03/2014 8:46:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Billthedrill

“Stop resisting!!...STOP RESISTING.!!!!! Get in your coop now!!...GET IN YOUR COOP NOW!!!!!”


53 posted on 09/03/2014 9:04:54 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: TurboZamboni

The sad part is that the Chicken was going to start attending College next week, at Le Cordon Bleu U.


54 posted on 09/03/2014 9:07:48 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

He still got in. early enrollment, he just has to chill a while till the rest of the students get there.


55 posted on 09/03/2014 9:09:25 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: cableguymn

Great, and the Taxpayer gets stuck paying for the Chicken’s Student Loans. Only in Obama’s America.


56 posted on 09/03/2014 9:13:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: TurboZamboni

I cant believe he didn’t shoot it “So he could return home safe to his family.”


57 posted on 09/03/2014 9:14:51 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: njslim
At least was not a dog

Caption from the first photo in the article:

"Family pet: Ashley Turnbull says her son, five-year-old Phoenix, treated his chicken, Carson Petey, as if it were a puppy"

"CLOSE ENOUGH!"

58 posted on 09/03/2014 9:19:14 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I think you missed the “chill out” part..

I mean he will be a meal ;)


59 posted on 09/03/2014 9:43:54 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: Fred Hayek

Alice had the Chicken Incident.
Ozzy bit the bat.

:)


60 posted on 09/03/2014 9:56:20 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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