Chicken death foul reflection of S. African crime wave

Under a front-page headline "Murder most fowl,"
The Star newspaper lamented the demise of the "plucky black hen" as a
cruel reflection of society in South Africa, one of the world's most violent
and crime-ridden countries. The semi-wild chicken had dodged intersection
traffic for months, but was lured across the road to her death by a trail of
breadcrumbs laid out by a friendly traffic-light newspaper seller. But it was
trap! The newspaper seller was being held at knifepoint by two hungry crooks
intent on a chicken meal. "The streetwise chicken met her match. She died
a Jozi death," said The Star.