Chickens From the Sky

Residents of Newcastle in New South Wales are experiencing a very unusual problem. Plucked chickens are falling from the sky and crashing onto their houses. Mr. Warrick Slee had one smash through his roof. Mr. Slee observes that "I think you know there's something unusual going on... birds or chickens or whatever it is, they don't just fall from the sky and put holes in people's roofs." Very true. I figure the freefalling chickens could be the work of pranksters with a catapult. Or maybe they're falling from a plane. Or maybe extraterrestrials have given up on sending messages via crop circles and have now moved on to plucked chickens.

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Posted on Tue Feb 08, 2005


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Posted by corax  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  08:45 AM
were they frozen?
Posted by thephrog  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  09:01 AM
Bizarre!

However, the 'diver in the forest' story is most likely untrue.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm
Posted by Boo  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  09:12 AM
Les Nessman: No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!

Johnny Fever: Les? Are you there? Les isn't there. (composing himself) Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les, and for those of you who just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.
Posted by Charybdis  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  09:28 AM
Aren't the Brits really into catapults or trebuchets where they deploy unusual items?
Posted by Chadds Ford Prefect  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  11:50 AM
Of course, now I see Alex already mentioned that.
Posted by Chadds Ford Prefect  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  11:51 AM
catapullets
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  01:15 PM
Actually, this it is supposedly in Newcastle, NSW Australia, not the UK. I had not heard this story, but ABC is a very reliable source usually as as they are the source I beleive that they are reporting it correctly.
Posted by Digby  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  02:37 PM
That's okay. The catapullets work in the Southern Hemisphere, too, but when you wind them up, you have to do it in a counter-clockwise direction, due to reversal of the solar hennakennapenna.
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  02:43 PM
about the scuba diver...
http://www.firediving.com/
Posted by anonymous  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  04:04 PM
I heard this in the news today. Apparently a theory is that some larger bird (eagle?) may have carried off chicken carcases from a rubbish dump and dropped them because they were too heavy.
Posted by Slugwart  on  Wed Feb 09, 2005  at  07:03 PM
As to twisters sucking up fish/frogs/whatever...it's usually only one species, one size...I was just reading about this in an X-Files book where they did a bunch of research into the phenomena that happened in each episode. Such as one story where a twister sucked up jellyfish and dropped them on a town...all the jellyfish were the same size...if the twister had sucked them up out of a school, there should be some of all sizes. Interesting. Are they whole chickens? Or eviscerated? Is the twister plucking them, or are they pre-plucked? This phenomenon has been known to happen out of a clear blue sky as well...
Posted by catlady  on  Thu Feb 10, 2005  at  02:57 AM
i live in Newcastle, and i swear this is a true story! i watched the midday news a little while ago, and there was a big story on it (which just goes to show how boring this place really is). apparently there have been 3 reported incidents of these chickens falling from the sky, and people from the area have all of these different theories about where the chickens are coming from, including someone with a slingshot, people dropping them out of planes, and (my personal favourite) crows from a local dump picking them up, flying over houses and dropping them, due to their weight. Newcasthe is a city on the East coast of Australia, by the way. about 2 hours North of Sydney.
Posted by Ella Bella  on  Thu Feb 10, 2005  at  06:30 PM
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