Mystery surrounds 26 headless chickens in North Pole

[happy_liberal]

Twenty-six chickens were mysteriously beheaded at a North Pole chicken coop this week. Then things got weird.

Troopers say they were called to a home on Sharon Road on Monday to a report of a mass chicken slaughter, with the carcasses laid out in a peculiar pattern on the ground.

The homeowners, who live in a semi-rural wooded neighborhood with large lots, had 29 white chickens in a backyard coop, said Trooper Ken Vanspronsen, who responded to the scene.

Sometime overnight Sunday, someone crept in and tore their heads off, but the homeowners told troopers they didn't hear anything unusual. They woke up Monday and went out to feed the chickens, when they discovered 26 of them dead.

"They were very concerned as to why somebody would do it, and kind of spooked," Vanspronsen said.

There was no sign of the heads, troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said. The carcasses had been laid out in a north-south pattern -- oriented with the coop -- in a roughly 12- to 15-foot line on the ground with a circular arrangement of corpses at one end, in something of a lollipop pattern.

http://www.adn.com/2010/05/25/1294007/26chickens.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. Creepy neighbor with too much spare time?

:shrug:

[Warpy]

3. More likely a drunken teenager

who was also high on meth and too much role playing online.

[Akoto]

5. Hey now, I role play online ...

While I am a bit past my teenage years, I happen to have a great deal of respect for chickens. :P

[Warpy]

13. Are you drunk and high on meth, though?

That makes a huge difference, especially when you add teenage raging hormones and a lack of life experience.

Stupid stuff like that happens here in NM and it's usually kids who are hopped up on booze and drugs.

[LynneSin]

6. They live in the North Pole region - what else is there to do around there?

:shrug:

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Satan Claus: "Ho Ho Ho, meh bitches!!"

[xchrom]

4. Yeah - why 26? Why not 25? Nt

[yella_dawg]

24. 2 X 13??

[charlesg]

7. As in the city of North Pole outside of Fairbanks

Not the "real" North Pole...

[NYC_SKP]

8. I trust the Palin clan can all account for their whereabouts?

:shrug:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oa66W9AQjS0/Swrt-lq4uCI/AAAAAAAAAc8/1ZPHlucdFIc/s400/sarah+palin+satan.jpg

[Blue-Jay]

9. Maybe there's a traveling freak show in town.

[Lasher]

10. Santa decided to get ahead.

Sorry.

:hide:

[HopeHoops]

11. Oh, they'll show up - McNuggets, KFC wings, somewhere like that.

Shit, and I thought this was going to be a link to The Onion.

[Blue-Jay]

17. .

[HopeHoops]

22. Thanks. I have that saved somewhere but couldn't find it.

[Ian David]

12. They built Chickenhenge. n/t

[csziggy]

14. Fishers will eat the heads off, but the pattern thing is weird

"You will know a Fisher cat killed your chickens when you discover chickens that are missing their neck and heads."
http://www.buildachickencoopeasy.com/breeds-of-chickens-suitable-for-4-h-projects/chicken-and-egg-predators-aka-%E2%80%93-fisher-cats

"Fishers will often kill multiple birds and will try to remove some of them. They will eat the neck and head and probably have the breast of the bird opened up as well." http://www.raising-chickens.org/chicken-predators.html

The last poultry we had, a fox got into the pen and went into a frenzy. It killed all the birds, but left the bodies with only one partially eaten. I suspect that is what happened here - something got in and killed all the chickens, then ate the heads. I also think the "pattern" was coincidental, not some ritual thing.

[SPedigrees]

20. I notice my cats will sometimes eat just the heads off their prey.

And other times just the lower half of the torso. I think this indicates a need at that particular time for the hormones or enzymes or other body chemicals present in the brain or reproductive organs.

However I've never seen my kitties line up a long row of field mice (sans body parts) on my front porch, all facing north.

[csziggy]

23. Yeah, that's the part that gets me

Unless some human came on the scene and lined the carcasses up, I don't have a guess about that.

[hlthe2b]

15. North Pole, Alaska... what a rip...

I have to admit my first thought was, to hell with the chicken aspect.. you mean someone actually lives at the North Pole....? Ok, ok, my coffee has worn off prematurely. LOL

[dgibby]

16. One of Sarah's witchdoctors, no doubt. n/t

[HillWilliam]

26. You and I went to the same place

:rofl:

[dgibby]

27. Must be the Hillbilly in both of us!

:evilgrin: :rofl: :fistbump:

[HillWilliam]

29. We've seen ENOUGH tent-meetin's!!

Eh-law have mercy. :fistbump:

[dgibby]

31. Don't forget those snake handling,

poision drinking preachers, either.

Ah swan Ah wanna sue that thar Jeff Foxworthy boy fo' makin' fun of mah kin. Jest 'cause me and mah pappy was in 5th grade together don't give that ole boy the right to diss on us.

Then he had to go and tell 'bout the time Bubba fell through the porch and kilt po' ole Red. Ah still miss that ole hound.

Gawd have mercy, Ah'm a gettin' all het up, jest cogitatin' on it. Whar's ole Betsy? Ah gotta good mind to fill hiz backsides full o' buckshot, bless hiz lil' ole heart!

Translation:

You can take the girl out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the girl!

[wilt the stilt]

18. Trig must be on leave n/t

[guitar man]

19. Santa was getting ready to go to the doctor?

That's a steep co-pay, 26 chickens! :rofl:

[SPedigrees]

21. ROTFLMAO! nt

[yella_dawg]

25. Well...

it's just the heads that were taken. Obviously, the culprit was insured, otherwise, it would have been the whole chicken.

[paparush]

28. Weasels will eat just the head and leave the body. I doubt they do ritual corpse aligment

ceremonies.

/Kept chickens for 10+ years.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. chicken coops at the north pole?

[AnnieBW]

32. Maybe it was a voodoo spell against Sarah Palin?

And her witchfinder general, Rev. Muthee?