Bracelet Found in Chicken After 25 Years

[alocispepraluger102]

November 29, 2007

Bracelet Found in Chicken After 25 Years

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:42 p.m. ET

FAIRMONT, Minn. (AP) -- More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he's finding how it was discovered tough to swallow. A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it.

''I've heard of livestock swallowing unusual objects, but this situation stands out,'' Mark Olson, who owns the meat locker, told the Sentinel of Fairmont.

Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather's barn near Sherburn.

''I would spend most of my time out at his farm, and that's the only place I can think of that I would have lost it,'' Giles said about his bracelet on Thursday. The 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5.

The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was imbedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away.

The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm.

Olson was able to track down Giles' father, who had moved to Arizona. Giles, who now lives in Gloucester, Mass., said he received his old bracelet in September.

''It was in pretty immaculate shape. Everything was working on it, and all the engravings on it were still legible,'' Giles said. ''It was quite the surprise.''

Giles said he expects the bracelet to stay in his family for many years to come. ''I have no plans on trying to lose it again,'' he said.

007 The Associated Press

[AllenLowe]

unless I missed something (and Jazzmouse DOES say that I am a boob, so it's very possible) do I understand correctly that this chicken lived to at least age 25 and was than slaughtered for food?

[MoGrubb]

That's what I thought, this thread was going to be about a 25 yo chicken.

Anyhow, 25 years is a long time to (even) keep a cheekin preserved, frozen(?).*gawk*

[AllenLowe]

according to what I've read a chicken lives 8-10 years - unless this chicken has been dead and frozen for about 15 years - must be one of the Colonel's -

[7/4]

What makes you think it was in the chicken all that time?

[AllenLowe]

well, if the chicken's been dead 15 years -

[7/4]

nice try.

[alocispepraluger102]

it is my understanding that the bracelet was lost on the farm, and ingested at a much later date.

i used to like chicken gizards.

Edited November 30, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Was this in the chicken as well?

[MoGrubb]

Chicken livers are ok, make great gravy. I never could get behind the gizzard.

[catesta]

Was this in the chicken as well?

hehe

Of course, but it was a 1982 edition.

[Spontooneous]

So maybe it wasn't such a good idea to get my chicken a friendship bracelet for Christmas?

[AllenLowe]

look, as I told my wife when she caught me and that chicken together, "hey, I just met her in the yard. It wasn't any

big deal- "

Edited November 30, 2007 by AllenLowe

[Man with the Golden Arm]

who could blame ya!

[Jim Alfredson]

who could blame ya!

Dude, I never noticed that she has one man-hand!!!

[Jazzmoose]

(and Jazzmouse DOES say that I am a boob, so it's very possible)

My apologies; I should have said childish boob.

[AllenLowe]

thank you for the correction - please note that the stuff will go away with a little Vagisal - just remember to keep it dry -

[MoGrubb]

Finger-licking good.