Six Drown While
Trying To Save a Chicken
Cairo, Egypt (UPI) 31 August
1995 - Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that
had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18 year old farmer was the
first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an
undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said. His sister
and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by one to help
him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they
apparently were pulled by the same undercurrent. The bodies of the six
were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles
south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
(Thanks to
Terry Wicks)
Which Came First,
The Chicken or the Egg???
According to National Geographic,
scientists have settled the old dispute over which came first -- the chicken
or the egg. They say that reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years
before chickens appeared, and the first chicken came from an egg laid by
a bird that was not quite a chicken. That seems to answer the question.
The egg came first. [Source - Knowledge in a Nutshell]
(Thanks to
Terry Wicks)
Humans Often Upstaged
by Animals in Bay Area News This Year
- Bay City (Calif) News
Service, 30 December 2000
...
Cranky chickens and rowdy
roosters. Poor-sighted wild turkeys. Animals often upstaged those of us
higher up on the food chain in Bay area news during the past year.
...
Wild turkeys in December
were responsible for knocking out power southwest of Sebastopol by flying
and running blindly into power lines in the morning fog. Pacific Gas and
Electric replaced the aluminum wires with more visible black ones and spaced
them further apart.
Colorado's Population
in Perspective
- Rocky Mountain News,
29 December 2000
...There are more Chickens
in Colorado (4.47 Million) than people (4.3 Million).
Drop That Chicken,
You Thief!
1
Killed, 1 Hurt in Mob Attack - Saturday 23 December 2000 3:44 AM ET
GUATEMALA
CITY (AP) - Crowds beat one man to death and attacked another for allegedly
stealing chickens in what appeared to be the latest acts of mob justice
in rural Guatemala. The incidents occurred in separate areas on Friday.
In the first, villagers beat a man to death in the village of Xipac, about
150 miles north of Guatemala City. Police didn't know whether the villagers
had accused the man of a crime. In the other attack, resident of
the village of Sacatepequez, just west of the capital, tied the accused
chicken thief to a post and beat him severely before police rescued him,
said Faustino Sanchez, spokesman for the National Civilian Police. So far
this year, 33 people have been beaten, stoned or burned to death by angry
crowds in rural Guatemala.
[source:
Associated Press]
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