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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 08/20/2007 : 22:56:33
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Due to the cultural traditions of many immigrants living in that city, and despite ordnances banning them within the city, Miami has a coopload of the miniature dinosaurs running around loose. Many of them are feral.
The city also has a specialized chicken-catching squad:
You've got to have a sense of humor if you're going to join Miami's squad of chicken catchers. It may be a serious mission they're on, but inevitably it is filled with comic moments.
Which explains the shirts emblazoned with the words "CHICKEN BUSTERS" that Ozzie Iglesias, Bill Borges and Lester George wear when then are in pursuit of prohibited poultry.
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"To be a good chicken catcher," said Ozzie, "you've got to think like a chicken. They develop a pattern and they always do the same thing. Once you've been here a few times, you know exactly which way they're going." |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 03:06:51 [Permalink]
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This is kind'a funny/nostalgic to me. Over the years, I've kept several flocks of chickens and guinea fowl, and I've always found the clucks and cackles they make soothing. And they will quickly rid a yard of ticks and mites, as an added bonus to the eggs and occasional Sunday dinner.
Short-sighted Miami is trying to destroy a public benefit.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2007 : 03:19:00 [Permalink]
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They never bothered me. I grew up next door to a farm. What I'd hate is the screaming-woman call of a peacock.
I love the story mainly for the scenes (most of them implied) of utter, chicken-chasing mayhem. There's nothing so good for one's sense of humility as getting outsmarted by something with a brain generously described as being the size of a pea.
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"You've got to think like a chicken"
