FuzzyHarmonics - 23 September 2007 06:56 PM
Spangek - 23 September 2007 01:15 PM
Ant, I’m yet to see the chicken roundabout in Norfolk, I still don’t believe it exists.
I haven’t seen it either but I have it on very reliable authority.
Next time I speak to my source I will ask him for directions.
It does exist.
Feathers Fly at Chicken Roundabout - A flock of chickens living on the roundabout on the A143 at Ditchingham, near Bungay, Norfolk; have become the centre of of concern. Norfolk county council and the Parish council say the chickens are a traffic hazard and must be removed.
Locals how ever are insisting that the flock must stay and are circulating a petition. There are hundreds of them and no one is sure which came first, the chickens or the roundabout; but they tend to cause strangers to react when confronted.
‘The chickens are what we are famous for!’ said the village postmistress, ‘Chicken roundabout is is a landmark.’
Locals claim the chickens are to the area what ponies are to the New Forest, and far from being a danger to traffic, actually help by slowing it down.
http://www.shepline.com/bvtoday/volume3/bv3101.htm