I just saw this story and couldn't help but have a flood of memories come back of when I was a Residence Hall Director and got woke up in the middle of the night to a frantic Eastern European student holding back tears as she tried to tell me that there were 36 chickens let loose in the dorm! OH MY GOSH...not fun to deal with!!! It takes me about 30 minutes to tell the complete story but too this day I cannot see a chicken without remembering the horror of cleaning up chicken poop, feathers, eggs, and 7 dead chickens (rip my feathery visitors) from all corners of the three story building. Yuck Yuck Yuck!!! Here are a few pics that were taken about 3 hours after the ordeal started when our facilities department finally came to my rescue!!50 chickens found loose in Philly school: PHILADELPHIA - Monday mornings are hard enough. Imagine finding 50 chickens running loose in your high school. Workers arriving about 5:30 a.m. to open Northeast High School in Philadelphia found dozens of hens and roosters wandering around the hallways. The birds were apparently brought to the school sometime over the weekend, said school district spokesman Fernando Gallard. "We don't know where the chickens came from or who they belong to," Gallard said. "I'm pretty sure there is a very upset poultry farmer somewhere who wants them back." The floors were covered with droppings and chicken feed. Most of the school's 3,600 students were sent home for the day because the school required extensive cleanup, he said. A farmer was called to round up the birds and bring them to Fox Chase Farm, the district's agricultural school, Gallard said. Police are checking surveillance tapes to see if they can determine the perpetrator of the fowl prank. The culprit will have to pay a hefty fine, said Gallard. "It's not going to be chicken scratch," he said.
