• When Indiana paramedics were called out to an emergency in a rural area, they found 57-year-old chicken farmer Christopher Adams lying drunk on his henhouse floor, naked, covered in blood and with a live, five-pound (2.3kg) chicken sticking out of his rectum, clucking loudly. After unsuccessfully attempting to remove the bird there and then, they took Adams and his chicken to hospital where the hen was extracted in a delicate seven-hour operation, with both man and chicken surviving.
“The bird was dying of suffocation when it got here. It had already badly lacerated the patient’s bowels in a desperate attempt to get out and was still gashing at it like crazy,” said a hospital spokesperson. The chicken suffered only minor injuries, but Adams needed seven blood transfusions and more than 780 stitches. Atdamaging that I can’t imagine that getting it in could have been any fun either.” Shelby County Sheriff’s Department and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) have both launched investigations and the ASPCA have taken custody of the chicken and say they will treat it for any symptoms of posttraumatic stress.
