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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4372230.stm

 

Tributes left for a dead chicken
Flowers and tributes were left in an alleyway where the body of a mystery dead baby was found - before police realised it was only a chicken foetus.

A member of the public discovered the remains in a back alley in the Anfield area of Liverpool.

Police cordoned off the scene but soon realised that it was not a human but a chicken foetus.

Well-wishers had laid more than a dozen bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.

Local gossip

One of the cards read: "RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx."

Merseyside Police told the community on Monday to "stop grieving, it's only a chicken".

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "It seems a member of the public saw the remains of a foetus, which possibly resembled a human foetus, and called us.

"We cordoned off the area to investigate, as we would with any possible suspicious death, but it became apparent it was not a human foetus.

"The flowers and cards are obviously the result of local gossip, but we can assure people that the remains were not human."

Conservative MP and editor of The Spectator Boris Johnson was criticised last year after commenting in the magazine that Liverpudlians were "hooked on grief".

 

 

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"hooked on grief".

 

I'm hooked on grief too...every time I see (or hear) Boris 'Mr Gumby' Johnson.  photo wail_zps70b0748c.gif

 

Anyway, time for a song...

 

♫ Hold a chicken in the air,

 

Stick a deckchair up your nose...♫

 

 

 

Mister EMB






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I'm doing an MA at the University of Speke on Grieving and Scousers, a behavioural study based on traditional Neanderthal teachings.
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