Chicken crossings...

Lately while driving to and from work, I have noticed a lot of fowl play. Chicken are being killed indiscriminately on the roads. Carcasses lie strewn over most major roads and along country lanes. A couple of weeks ago there was a bulletin on the radio about how traffic on the M6 had to be stopped due to a stray chicken attempting to cross it. This led me to think whether there is a mass road-crossing in the offing. Perhaps it is their way of a protest, just like the BA staff going on strike. Maybe the chicken want better living and feeding conditions. Maybe they have a political agenda and are going on suicide missions to achieve their goal. Is this their way of waging a spiritual war on the world? Will there be a time when the chicken of the world will hold motorists at ransom for better feed at the farms? I wonder if KFC will now raise the price of a Zinger fillet burger. It seems to me that tough times are ahead.

A few renowned and respectable minds of the world envisaged this many years ago. They propounded various theories but none of them could explain the phenomenon satisfactorily.

I had received an email about it from a kind friend; birds weren’t tweeting electronically in those days, and that’s how I came to know about it. I thought it was about time I shared with the rest of the world.

Here is what they had to say -

Kindergarten Teacher: To get to the other side.

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and
we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens
will be free to cross roads without having their motives called
into question.

Moses: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto
the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed
the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Richard M. Nixon: I just want to make one thing perfectly clear.
The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT
cross the road.

Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who
cares why?  The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive
there was.

Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which
will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important
documents, and balance your checkbook.

Oliver Stone: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the
road?"  Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time,
whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"

Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally
selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to
cross roads.

Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved
beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference.

Buddha: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Nietzsche: The chicken does not exist.

Colonel Sanders (KFC): I missed one!?

The time has come, it seems, when chicken world over have to make a tough choice. They have to take a side. Blue pill or red pill. To cross or not to cross; that is the question.