Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? That's For the Courts to Decide

No, that title is NOT simply a lame attempt at an original take on a classic joke. This last week a chicken in Ridgecrest, CA found itself on the wrong side of the law while innocently reinacting the old joke that it is unlikely anyone every actually found funny. Luckily, lawyers have no sense of humor, and got the chicken out of it.

A chicken that got a ticket for crossing the road has clawed his way out of it.
The $54 citation for impeding traffic was dismissed Friday after Linc and Helena Moore's attorney argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be charged as livestock.
State law restricts livestock on highways, but not domestic animals.
The chicken was ticketed March 26 for impeding traffic after it wandered onto a road in Johannesburg, a rural mining community southeast of Ridgecrest.

It makes you wonder just how much livestock gets charged each year for such petty offenses. Perhaps we need a new "just say no to crossing the road" campaign to keep wayward fowl from recklessly putting themselves in harms way. Or perhaps we just need to give the reporters something more interesting to report on!