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Posted by Jennifer on November 6th, 2008

Ill. police take aggressive rooster into custody

A rooster played chicken in the wrong town. That’s the word from the downstate community of Benton, where police took a rooster into custody after it allegedly confronted a woman and her child. Police Chief Mike O’Neill said the rooster has been bothering people lately, trying to keep them from getting where they want to go.
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O’Neill said officers had enough on Monday and took the rooster into custody after what he described as a brief scuffle.

Nobody was injured and the rooster was thrown in an enclosed area near the police department. There, it lived on chicken feed and water until police located the owner. Read More Here