THE INSIDER: Fowl play possible in pool puzzle
Mystery of the swimming spatchcock chicken in Cape Town fires up Twitter
There are many reasons given for why the chicken crossed the road‚ but a Capetonian has been left with a new poser: how did the chicken end up in my pool? TML Digital reports that Noele Wood of Table View woke to find a spatchcock chicken in her pool on Monday and took to the Table View Neighbours Facebook page to share her odd discovery the following day. "Just fished out my pool… anyone lost a spatchcock… and before anyone asks, no it was not doing the breast stroke… lol‚" Wood wrote. The post quickly went viral, with her friends wading in with speculation on how the chicken got there and who it belonged to. "I heard that a crow stole a defrosted chicken the other day… perhaps it dropped it. lol that’s serious‚" Diane Stokell said. Claire Balsdon took a similar tack: "Maybe a crow or something pinched someone’s dinner defrosting‚ but it got too heavy when they were over your pool. The mystery of the missing spatchcock is now solved." Andrea Lachner plunged in with: "…Heck‚ I know ...
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