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Friday, March 2, 2012

Chow Anyone Know Anything About This Lost Chicken?

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:23 PM

You know you live in Utopia when you see signs like this...

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Tim Baker

By the way, the poster is not far from The Fat Hen—a restaurant that's favorably reviewed in this issue. I'm now beginning to wonder if there are signs for lost five-dollar bills in Utopia? Maybe even raccoons return chickens in Utopia. There's no place like this Utopia.

UPDATE: A source tells me the chicken was returned, and not in a pot. It's a live and kicking chicken. What a country!

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Looks like dinner to me.

Posted by Senor Guy on March 2, 2012 at 12:43 PM

It's not fried, Daddy. It's Shake N' Bake and I helped!

Posted by PaulBarwick on March 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM

My mom found $55 on a walk in Burien once and put up a sign. Didn't get any bites, though, so she got to keep it.

Posted by paulus on March 2, 2012 at 12:46 PM

Dear Seattle,

I miss your sandwiches. Esp the pastrami. Can't find anything above Subway here.

Best,
-In Eugene

Posted by aardvark on March 2, 2012 at 12:50 PM

I guess they thought using the word "breast" would remind people of food.

Posted by rob!

on March 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM

Don't look at the chicken.
...
I looked at the chicken.
Me too.

Posted by changisme on March 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM

you can't spell chicken without "hick".

Posted by tainte on March 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM

I can't post a link, but go to MyBallard for the full story. The chicken was restored to its proper owner.

Posted by not the name of a registered user on March 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM

In the white utopia we live like third world Africans with chickens running loose, our child are unvaccinated and we have virtually no carbon footprint.

By day we work at MSFT.

Posted by Whitopia on March 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM

you know, if it is a laying hen, there is plenty of good reason to return it whole and unharmed to its owner.

Posted by onion on March 2, 2012 at 1:35 PM

That was the chicken that tried to cross 8th ave:

http://www.myballard.com/2012/02/28/chic…

Posted by LMcGuff

on March 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM

Charles, even though I'm pretty sure you'll make me regret saying this, I'm going to say it anyway.

I noticed that after the bruhaha over Amanda Knox's release, you stopped trolling, and ever since you stopped, you've become one of my favorites on SLOG.

Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

Posted by seandr on March 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM

there is no such thing as a lost chicken.... Only a free lunch, read the fine print, last seen at 11am

Posted by lower case b on March 2, 2012 at 2:15 PM

There is no such thing as a lost chicken...only a free lunch. Read the fine print-last seen at 11am

Posted by lower case b on March 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM

@12 - this really is one of his best posts ever.

Posted by longball on March 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM

"What a country!" Good luck out there Balki, say 'hi' to cousin Larry.

Posted by biffp on March 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM

Per MyBallard, the chicken's name is Pecky Lockstockings.

Adorable!

Posted by MLM on March 2, 2012 at 3:45 PM

Cash is a fluid commodity, impossible to associate fairly with a previous owner.

A chicken is a chicken. Give that shit back.

Anyway, this reminds me of that "Morning Walk" short from the Oscar-nominated animated film shorts that were showing in all the indie theaters recently.

Posted by balderdash