Chicken Ticketed for Crossing the Road

Linc and Helena Moore of California may have finally learned the answer to that age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because the chicken doesn't know jaywalking is illegal.

Kern County Sheriff's Deputy J. Nicholson issued a ticket because one of the couple's chickens allegedly impeded traffic in Johannesburg, a rural mining community, some 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Nicholson has declined to discuss the matter, but sheriff's Sgt. Francis Moore said chickens on the roadway have been a problem in the community of 50 residents. Officials didn't believe it could be resolved by simply issuing the couple a warning.

"Sometimes you have to let people talk to the judge", Moore said.

While we're on the topic, here are some humorous answers of how other famous people would answer the age old question.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Neil Armstrong: To go where no chicken has gone before.

Homer Simpson: There was free beer on the other side of the road.

Bill Clinton: What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?

John Kerry: I agree that the chicken should cross the road, but I believe that the chicken should not get to the other side.

George Bush: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.

The Bible: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road". And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Barbara Walters: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how itexperienced a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish itslife-long dream of crossing the road.

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

Mahatma Gandhi: All chickens should peacefully resist by crossing the road.

Albert Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

Pete Rose: I don't know, but I swear I didn't bet on it.

O.J. Simpson: It didn't. I was playing golf with it at the time.

Former Iraqi Information Minister: There is no such chicken trying to cross the road, and there never has been any such chicken.

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