Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it aint so easy as you might thinktelling a chicken from a Chinaman, I mean. Anyways, they got his weight off his drivers license, picked up a hundred and thirty pounds of pieces and buried em. Now his wife come every year 'bout this time to pay her respects. We don't serve chicken while she's here. Hope you ain't got a taste for it.
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