FOWL PLAY

Chickens Crash a Boulder High School

By Amy Brouillette, 6-03-05

You’ve got to hand it to the masterminds behind this year’s senior prank at Fairview High School. A group of soon-to-be-graduates, in their ritualistic last stab at authority, let loose 39 chickens donning red vests and capes into the school’s hallways Tuesday, according to a Daily Camera story yesterday.
While innocent-seeming enough, the prank reportedly riled staffers at the Humane Society, who were called to the scene after police and school administrators rounded up the chickens and sent them straight to the vice principal’s office (where the costumed birds were lectured and given a week’s detention for roaming the halls without a pass).
Only one student culprit has so far been fingered by the administration, according to the Camera, but surely this was a group effort—imagine what it would take to outfit 39 clucking chickens into miniature vests, fasten tiny capes around their necks, and then transport the flock into the school.
For now, the birds are recovering at the Humane Society.

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