TLC, I thought you might have a cluckle over this news article:
Somebody catch that chicken!
Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt.
An 18-year-old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent
in the water pulled him down, police said.
His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by one to help him, but also drowned.
Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they apparently were pulled down by the same undercurrent.
The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo.
The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
AP, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug 1995
Note: All six received Darwin Awards.
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