Teens Who Beheaded Chickens Convicted of Animal Cruelty

Seven teenagers who beheaded two chickens because they were curious whether the birds would run around with their heads cut off will soon learn a lot more about the birds.

A judge ordered the five young men and two young women -- ages 17 to 19 -- to clean chicken coops and read a book about animals' feelings as part of their sentence...

The chickens "sort of ran a very short distance, and they sort of flopped over," said defense attorney Garland Moore, who attributed the teenagers' behavior to youthful curiosity...

Moore criticized the state for initially charging the teenagers with the deaths of eight chickens, not two, on the premise the other six died because of the stress of itnessing the beheadings.

Gee, somebody round up all the chicken butchers in Asia! Anyway, I'm glad to know the results of the experiment. And I'm intruiged that chickens are such sensitive souls that they drop dead on seeing their brethren killed. Here in Kaohsiung, they don't seem to mind.