[RP TownTalk] Here we go again - dead chickens!

[Dwight Holmes]

persuing my gmail archives it would appear that last year's reporting
of dead chickens at the RxR crossing was on 8/19/06 (and discussion
continued til 9/22/06)

(curious if there was a pattern in terms of the lunar cycle i looked
up 8/4/07 and 8/19/06 -- they're about 5 days apart (6 days after the
full moon vs 11 days after the full moon))

On 8/7/07, Sue Collins <wheadle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure people will remember the posts last year
> regarding dead chickens being found at the railroad
> crossing and other places.  Well!  Saturday I was
> crossing the tracks at Queensbury and saw a grocery
> bag; I went to pick it up to put it in a trash can and
> saw that it contained a chicken, feathers and all.
> Last year there had been questions about calling
> Public Works, the Police, etc., when dead chickens
> were found - I figured Public Works would be closed on
> Saturday, so I called the Police and asked if they
> just wanted me to dispose of the bag, or?  They sent
> officers over and they found ANOTHER bag with a dead
> chicken on the other side of Queensbury at the
> crossing!  And to make it even stranger, each bag, in
> addition to the chicken, contained several pieces of
> hard candy, you know, like those Starlight mints?  I
> tell you what, it looked like offerings of some kind,
> not just someone disposing of dead chickens (whether
> for cockfighting, or?)  I don't know if people are
> practicing voodoo, Santeria, or other things here in
> town, but we'll see if more chickens turn up.  (wasn't
> it around this time last year when the chickens were
> found?  Wonder if there's some significance to the
> time of year?)  Very, very strange...