Thank you for ripping his arguement to shreds. I sallute you
My pleasure, and welcome to SciForums...
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What did the car owners have to say about that?
Hi Enmos and Orly! Another trick I learned during a 2 year or so "bad economic period" way back when - I was not quite so "comfortable"...
Anywho, we used to stand at a certain part of the roadside, on a corner near a chicken farm. We had the days and times down when the flatbed trucks would leave the farm, loaded. When the trucks made the corner, invariably some chickens would fall right off the truck, having escaped their crate. Sometimes even a whole crate full would fall from the truck.
My roommate and I were by no means the only people wise to this "trick", so the next challenge was to run fast enough to beat the others attempting to catch the same chickens. Naturally, this caused an altercation or two...
If we caught individual chickens (the "normal occurrence"), well... We would "seal their fate" on the spot - if you've ever seen people that actually kill chickens regularly, you know that no "hatchets or axes" are involved. You simply grab the chicken by the head or neck and "flip your wrist" in such a way that it wrings the chicken's neck - it takes about 5 seconds. Then stick the chicken in a burlap back and off after the next one.
Although this is somewhat graphic, it 's the way that it went down. On a good day we would get 6-8 chickens and we almost
never went away empty handed.
That was the only time in my life when I was actually poor enough to have resort to such tactics, but if your entire diet consisted only of pancakes, sometimes hamburger helper, Raemen noodles (10 packs for a dollar now, probably ten packs for ten cents back then), veggies grown in our garden, and maybe an egg here and there - well, this was a great way of obtaining fresh meat, our only other means was hunting and fishing.
Man, I would like to have a mess of fresh squirrels, but I don't know of anywhere to buy them and I live in the city now. Plus, the climate where I now live is semi-tropical, and you only want to hunt squirrels in cold weather - they harbor some kind of worm or other parasite during the warmer seasons..
It's amazing what people will do to obtain food when they are hungry. Of course ol' Clueluss will probably try to assert that I did all this for the "pleasure" of killing the chicken - kind of a wacky idea to me, 'cause it was rather hard work, and dangerous, what with running between traffic and fighting off the other people after the chickens. In any event, it was what it was...
What do you think they were driving in the 30s?
John, what are you trying to talk about here with Enmos? I can't seem to follow the point you're trying to make... :shrug: