A month that can only fairly be described as having been really good for the chicken industry, and comparably awful for actual chickens, adds another layer to its media omnipresence with reports that a whole hell of a lot of uncooked domesticated fowl covered a Brooklyn street.
The NYC Department of Sanitation confirmed the chicken, which was indeed raw, has largely been cleaned up via presumably not-fun methods as of Friday afternoon. Prior to the clean-up, however, ultimately viral footage shared by The Late Show's Sara Vilkomerson showed the not-exactly-appetizing scene in full swing.
Local police also received at least one 911 call regarding the mysteriously placed chicken nuisance, with responding officers arriving to find the aforementioned Department of Sanitation officials in the middle of their clean-up activities.
BuzzFeed News ran a far more investigative piece on the chicken brouhaha from writer Julia Reinstein, even speaking with Cullen Camic, who snapped the video later shared by Vilkomerson. The report includes multiple chicken-assessing comments from Camic, though the most pressing of these is surely this one:
"It was clean chicken, probably headed to Popeye's or something. It looked like some weird piece of abstract art."
Anyway, here's more on-the-scene documentation of (and general commentary on) the chicken incident, assuming that's the type of thing you want to see on a Friday:
