Chicken-Playing Chicken

A black hen has been playing a game of chicken on a busy Glendale, California, road, dodging cars, captors and coyotes for more than two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported November 20th. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it. A spokeswoman for the Pasadena Humane Society said the bird either runs into the street or flies into a tree when officers approach. Hillary Gatlin said a humane trap has not worked because the chicken doesn’t weigh enough to trigger it or she isn’t interested in the feed used as bait. Gatlin said the standoff could continue for a long time.