The City of Neenah has a “Chicken” Law. If you apply for a license, Neenah will grant you permission to have up to four chickens on your property. How would you like to have neighbors with chickens running around their lawns? That would be a lot of chicken sh–.
With public tensions running high (slow economy, layoffs, & foreclosures), minor things cause big problems. A property owner in Neenah violated the “Four Chicken Law”. She had five chickens in her yard. Clearly a City violation. She had to get rid of one chicken or face a misdemeanor and a fine. She was given 24 hours to correct the situation.
Chicken “number five” suddenly disappeared. Nobody knows what happened. My guess is that the chicken became part of a 12 course meal. How do you decide which chicken becomes “excess”?
When police investigated the “chicken violation” they also found 3 peacocks, 3 geese, 3 turkeys, 3-pigeons and 3 guinea hens. The “foul” birds had been gathered into a pen in back of the house and for the time being were not a nuisance to the neighborhood. Because all the “other” fowl were not in plain sight, there were no further citations.
I guess you could say “all’s well that ends well” except if you were the unlucky chicken that had to be eliminated.
The lesson Grasshoppers is that when you are having a bad day, think of Chicken No.5. He really had a bad day. Your problems are minor.
Love,
Dad