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There’s a chicken in my yard.

#161
david barnes said:
one summer day a few years back i woke up took my dogs out. and there is a peacock on my porch. keep in mind i live in a decent sized city. right on a very busy main road...here is this 4 ft tall peacock.. it stayed most the summer. i feed it oatmeal and crackers.. it mostly sat on my porch. literally day after it left , a brown hen showed up and stayed for a bit . and laid eggs
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We were gifted two peacocks once. Super loud and annoying.
So we weren’t too sad when they disappeared. Well, being flock animals, they took up with some similar birds. Some time later, I overheard some turkey hunters talking. “Man, you should of seen the crazy looking turkeys I saw today.”
 
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#162
xaxxat said:
I took care of my friend's chickens last weekend.

The rooster sneaked up on me and spurred me good.

Time to put him in the pot.
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Our Shen rooster was very aggressive. I would drop kick him across the yard. Came back for more.
LT131 said:
We were playing a benefit for our local Zoo. While unloading a peacock started attacking the guitar players car! The GP started chasing the peacock going, "Shoo!Shoo!" around and around his car. Finally the peacock took off a bit but a few minutes later he was back at it and the scene repeated. The peacock was doing some actual damage so the GP gave up and moved his car. Peacock 1 GP 0. The zoo manager told us that some peacocks were territorial and would attack reflections. So, next time any of you play a zoo benefit don't park near the peacocks or, drive a dirty car.
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We played a zoo gig once. After loading out and chit chatting, I was the last one there. I had to walk back to the main gate to get out. Full dark and nobody around, it was unnerving to hear all these crazy jungle animal sounds. I kept waiting for a Velosiraptor to attack me.
 
#163
I drove up on two peacocks fighting once - way out in some back country roads. (For you city people, I mean WAY out, I lived way out, and this was remote even for us). They were seizing each other up, circling around trying to get a better position, and giving me the side eye as I stopped the car to take their picture (and because they were smack dab in the middle of the road on a bridge). They were each trying to figure out if I was a bigger threat than the other bird that was about to come at them.
 
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#164
swarfrat said:
Since there's one other person who will appreciate this:
I'd been all but checked off to drive the engine. However the chief appeared to think that because I was a college boy who programmed computers for a living, I was too educated to know which end of the axe to hold. This call was in the middle of the daytime, when many (virtually all) volunteer stations are often critically short handed. I called the Deputy Chief (who was on scene and requesting any and everything that could haul water) on the phone and he said 'Bring it on'. I said "Just so you know - this is between you and the chief." He said "Drive carefully". The chief was at work. When he arrived on scene later in the day and saw me up on the deck, he was HOT. But thankfully he DID manage to keep whatever business they had between the two of them.

I found a chicken feather while cleaning out the engine, which went into my shadow box, along with my FD t-shirt from my first fire with the hose stains on the shoulder and the burnt section of hose from that first fire when I learned that even a few piddly leaves burning back behind you can interrupt your stream flowing to the building on fire in front.

I really felt for the guy - he probably lost 7000 chickens. That could put a lot of guys under.
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For sure! Aren’t FD politics fun? Never seen so much ado about so little ;). Yeah - watch the hose behind ya!
 
#165
As today is World Water Day, I would like to buy every single person in this thread a drink!

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#169
5StringBlues said:
This is one of the main reasons I miss living in Virginia.
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Hmm, haven't had any Cajun filet biscuits, were you getting them from Joe Bangles?

I once had a job in Au Udom for a few months. It's just South of Sriracha (yes, the sauce namesake town).
At the 80 Baht/night room there was a courtyard where they kept chickens, and they woke me up every morning, didn't even need to set my alarm clock.

80 THB was about $2.5 USD at the time
 
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Killed_by_Death said:
Hmm, haven't had any Cajun filet biscuits, were you getting them from Joe Bangles?

I once had a job in Au Udom for a few months. It's just South of Sriracha (yes, the sauce namesake town).
At the 80 Baht/night room there was a courtyard where they kept chickens, and they woke me up every morning, didn't even need to set my alarm clock.

80 THB was about $2.5 USD at the time
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According to the google 80 baht is $2.52 US right now. When I was there in 1974-1975 the exchange rate was very consistently close to 20 baht = $1.00 US. Hardly ever changed much.
 

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