Chickens Find Safe Home, Y’All

The Daily News returns today to the story of The Great Northeast High Chicken Prank. As part of, um, the most awesomest prank ever the night of Feb. 10, a group of people let loose 85 chickens in Northeast High School. They were discovered in the morning to much hilarity.

Now, the 85 Rhode Island red hens let loose in Northeast are headed to Fox Chase Farm in Northeast Philly. There are already four hens at the farm, so what’s 85 more? Although there was video surveillance of the crime scene, cops still don’t know who did it. They also have much more important things to worry about, like policing the flower show.

Hens found at Northeast High to rule roost at Fox Chase Farm [Daily News]

Chicken Prank Surveillance Video!

We now have a surveillance video from The Great Northeast High Chicken Prank, and… boy… is it sure… there. Okay, so the surveillance vid doesn’t show much beyond a couple blurry figures dressed in black spreading chicken feed around.

Meanwhile, Action News calls the prank “cruel and dirty.” And the Daily News has an article with so many puns even I’m cringing.

Your Chicken Prank Roundup

Ahh, yes, the chickens. Yesterday, somebody let 85 chickens loose in Northeast High School, leading to much hilarity and a bunch of kids writing “167″ in the PWD comments. (Is this the 167th class or something?)

Everybody did a nice job reporting this important news story. NBC 10 talks with the school and confirms this was most likely a senior prank. The station also talks to students, who do Tweety Bird impressions for the camera:

“I actually did see a chicken, I did, in the basement. It was running and the security guard was chasing it,” senior Satoria Bell said.

The floors were covered with chicken feed and chicken waste. Officials called in a farmer to help round up and remove the birds. Some witnesses said the chickens were laying eggs all over the building but most students said they didn’t see anything.

“I didn’t see any chickens,” one student said.

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Chickens Loose At Northeast High!

Pranksters, you are going to have to do a lot to top this one. The prank of the year: 50 live chickens were let out in the halls of Northeast High School.

Some time this morning, someone broke into the school and released 50 live chickens and chicken feed into the school. Maintenance men discovered the chickens just before light this morning. A school spokesman said: “At this point, we don’t know when someone broke into the school but someone did break into at the start of school this morning and dropped off fifty or more chickens into Northeast High School and spread chicken feed all over the school.”

Someone is going to have to put penguins in Audenreid in order to top this, honestly. I think we have a unbeatable front-runner right now.

50 Live Chickens Set Free Inside NE High School [KYW 1060]