On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 10:04 AM, John Ellingsworth wrote:
Yesterday when I went to Clark Park with my dog he started acting
oddly in
some bushes (next to the Gettysburg stone) while we were walking
around.
I looked in the bushes and saw what appeared to be a large bird (my
first
thought was a falcon or hawk) in there.
After realizing it was dead (actually frozen solid) I pulled it out.
It was a very large decapitated rooster.
So I was wondering if this was an animal sacrifice, or animal fighting?
I don't know much about the practices of either group, but was
wondering if
anyone else had any knowledge.
Despite all the speculation to the contrary, I suspect that you will
find that this had nothing to do with either religion or recreation...
but rather minority persecution -- it was a hate crime.
There are several flocks of chickens (complete with one or more
annoying roosters) in West Philadelphia of which I am aware. And yes,
they are legal within the city because they have fewer than some number
of birds - 15, if I remember correctly. (We tried to get L&I to get rid
of them.)
So assuming that the neighbors of the rooster disliked (hated) being
awakened every time some car's headlights passed over the coop making
the bird think it was time to crow, it takes far less effort to assume
that someone grabbed the bird and simply "rung-its-neck" than to assume
that it was procured legally and then ritually slaughtered. Ergo...
instant hate crime. No religion involved. [And as to why it didn't wind
up in a stew pot -- did you ever try to eat rooster?][And why in the
bushes -- why do guns always show up in bushes... somebody was trying
to hide the thing in a hurry.]
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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