{"id":3015,"date":"2016-07-05T06:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2016-07-05T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:46:06","slug":"chicken-little-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Little is Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was walking by an apartment building on the way to work and suddenly a loud crack sounded behind me and to my right. It sounded like a rock splitting, or maybe plastic snapping loudly. I turned to look, and sitting on the pavement perfectly aligned with the front door of the apartment building was a raw (slightly flattened) chicken breast. It could have been the thigh, however – I\u2019m not exactly sure. Some other people walking to work glanced over, but I think we all had a similar expression on our face: what a weird fucking neighborhood this is.<\/span><\/p>\n

The area around Hyogo station doesn\u2019t have a great reputation for high class. Hyogo station is north of quite a few big factories (one of which currently employs me). Many of the people walking around dress as if they are on their way to a blue collar job – wearing towels on their head and flared bell bottom trousers that are in style for carpenters and builders. On my daily commute I often see weird stuff – once I saw a luxury sedan stop and drop off two women wearing elegant cocktail dresses. They got out of the car and walked to their apartment at 5:30 am. Another time I bumped into a group of high school kids smoking and drinking beer (also at 5:30 am). It is a strange part of Kobe, and therefore makes it a great place to walk through every morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

So about this falling chicken, during the rest of my walk to work I had something to ponder. First, was I the target? Naturally if I am on the top of the building trying to throw a chicken breast at a pedestrian target then a Caucasian with lighter hair is a natural draw to the eye. Based on the timing of the drop I\u2019d say it was possible, but they missed by quite a bit – it hit the pavement more than six meters away from me. The apartment building I passed was quite tall – more than twenty stories high – and combined with the loudness of the impact I\u2019d say that it was dropped from a very high elevation. That would make it hard to be accurate. So why was a chicken falling? Somebody was too lazy to dispose of it upstairs? Was somebody throwing it around the apartment and they forgot that the window was open? <\/span><\/p>\n

Plenty of questions for the rest of my walk to work. What a weird part of town.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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