Eleven year old found handcuffed to porch, with a dead chicken

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/18/boy-11-routinely-chained-in-north-carolina-home-police-say/

[Lambsbread]

Murica?

[Lief 🗽]

boys will be boys

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

[angus]

I understand the handcuffs, but what's the purpose of the chicken?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Our foster care system is dreadful, and to a large degree, it exists only because we want to say we have no orphanages here in America, not because we have a better alternative.  At least with orphanages it's easier to see that they get properly supervised.  Are there any actual studies concerning the relative value of family centered foster care versus group facilities, or are we going by the idea that families are best, even if we bounce children around from family to family to family to family to family to family to family to family to family?

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Our foster care system is dreadful, and to a large degree, it exists only because we want to say we have no orphanages here in America, not because we have a better alternative.  At least with orphanages it's easier to see that they get properly supervised.  Are there any actual studies concerning the relative value of family centered foster care versus group facilities, or are we going by the idea that families are best, even if we bounce children around from family to family to family to family to family to family to family to family to family?

That still doesn't explain the chicken.

[King]

Bushie Jr in a 11 years?

[Lambsbread]

I understand the handcuffs, but what's the purpose of the chicken?

I want to be a high school English teacher so I'm gonna practice now. -clears throat-

The handcuffs represent how society almost forces young children to still attach themselves to materials and property, so as to become dependent on these possessions when they grow older.  Even though these children might become aware of the fact that society is leading them to an adulthood of dependency upon property, the children cannot break free from the "shackles" that society has thrust upon them. Therefore, the chicken represents the innocence of the children. Their innocence has been slaughtered and handed back to them, and now they are chained to a material-based society whilst holding the dead remnants of everything that made them a child and a human, for that matter. They are now ready to become an adult.

Pretty good, eh?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I understand the handcuffs, but what's the purpose of the chicken?

I want to be a high school English teacher so I'm gonna practice now. -clears throat-

The handcuffs represent how society almost forces young children to still attach themselves to materials and property, so as to become dependent on these possessions when they grow older.  Even though these children might become aware of the fact that society is leading them to an adulthood of dependency upon property, the children cannot break free from the "shackles" that society has thrust upon them. Therefore, the chicken represents the innocence of the children. Their innocence has been slaughtered and handed back to them, and now they are chained to a material-based society whilst holding the dead remnants of everything that made them a child and a human, for that matter. They are now ready to become an adult.

Pretty good, eh?

Are you Snowstalker's sock?

[Lambsbread]

I might be.

[angus]

I understand the handcuffs, but what's the purpose of the chicken?

I want to be a high school English teacher so I'm gonna practice now. -clears throat-

The handcuffs represent how society almost forces young children to still attach themselves to materials and property, so as to become dependent on these possessions when they grow older.  Even though these children might become aware of the fact that society is leading them to an adulthood of dependency upon property, the children cannot break free from the "shackles" that society has thrust upon them. Therefore, the chicken represents the innocence of the children. Their innocence has been slaughtered and handed back to them, and now they are chained to a material-based society whilst holding the dead remnants of everything that made them a child and a human, for that matter. They are now ready to become an adult.

Pretty good, eh?

haha.  I actually had to have it explained to me that when Othello changes his clothes, it means that he doesn't have a hard-on for Desdemona any more, so don't ask me to interpret literature.

Anyway, I think your figurative interpretation is pretty creative.

Seriously, though, I get the handcuffs.  I was an eleven-year-old boy once myself.  What I cannot understand is the chicken.  Was it lunch?  Was it a playmate?  Were they killing two birds with one stone--any puns unintended--as in, were they as worried about the chicken running off and getting into trouble as they were about the boy?  Was it some Louisiana thing?  I know that they're into hexes and such down there, although I'm not very well versed on the details of them.  Really, there's no explanation of the dead chicken in the article.  It's just, "A boy, one of five foster children, was regularly cuffed to the newel post.  oh, yeah, and apparently there was a dead chicken involved, too."  WTF?

Do any of you rural adoptees have any experience with this sort of thing?  Is the chicken significant?

[DINGO Joe]

You see, the boy is sh#t and the chicken means he's chicken sh#t. 

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

It is very likely the boy grew up in a very conservative, religious household.  The boy was instructed before puberty never to put his hands in places where they don't belong, but he acted defiantly whenever he had the chance, and of course, a fresh pair of socks.  The chicken is dead as a result of his father strangling it - "choking the chicken," if you will - in an act to condemn the boy's lustful behaviors albeit at the expense of family supper.  Thus, not only are the boy's hands constricted to prevent him from engaging in this shameful act again, but he is forced to sit in the presence of his favorite sin.

[DINGO Joe]

It is very likely the boy grew up in a very conservative, religious household.  The boy was instructed before puberty never to put his hands in places where they don't belong, but he acted defiantly whenever he had the chance, and of course, a fresh pair of socks.  The chicken is dead as a result of his father strangling it - "choking the chicken," if you will - in an act to condemn the boy's lustful behaviors albeit at the expense of family supper.  Thus, not only are the boy's hands constricted to prevent him from engaging in this shameful act again, but he is forced to sit in the presence of his favorite sin.

This sounds disturbingly plausible. 

[angus]

It is very likely the boy grew up in a very conservative, religious household.  The boy was instructed before puberty never to put his hands in places where they don't belong, but he acted defiantly whenever he had the chance, and of course, a fresh pair of socks.  The chicken is dead as a result of his father strangling it - "choking the chicken," if you will - in an act to condemn the boy's lustful behaviors albeit at the expense of family supper.  Thus, not only are the boy's hands constricted to prevent him from engaging in this shameful act again, but he is forced to sit in the presence of his favorite sin.

I'm taking you with me the next time I watch a theatrical performance. 

[Adam Griffin]

I want to be a high school English teacher so I'm gonna practice now. -clears throat-

The handcuffs represent how society almost forces young children to still attach themselves to materials and property, so as to become dependent on these possessions when they grow older.  Even though these children might become aware of the fact that society is leading them to an adulthood of dependency upon property, the children cannot break free from the "shackles" that society has thrust upon them. Therefore, the chicken represents the innocence of the children. Their innocence has been slaughtered and handed back to them, and now they are chained to a material-based society whilst holding the dead remnants of everything that made them a child and a human, for that matter. They are now ready to become an adult.

Pretty good, eh?

It is very likely the boy grew up in a very conservative, religious household.  The boy was instructed before puberty never to put his hands in places where they don't belong, but he acted defiantly whenever he had the chance, and of course, a fresh pair of socks.  The chicken is dead as a result of his father strangling it - "choking the chicken," if you will - in an act to condemn the boy's lustful behaviors albeit at the expense of family supper.  Thus, not only are the boy's hands constricted to prevent him from engaging in this shameful act again, but he is forced to sit in the presence of his favorite sin.

[John Dibble]

It is very likely the boy grew up in a very conservative, religious household.  The boy was instructed before puberty never to put his hands in places where they don't belong, but he acted defiantly whenever he had the chance, and of course, a fresh pair of socks.  The chicken is dead as a result of his father strangling it - "choking the chicken," if you will - in an act to condemn the boy's lustful behaviors albeit at the expense of family supper.  Thus, not only are the boy's hands constricted to prevent him from engaging in this shameful act again, but he is forced to sit in the presence of his favorite sin.

I was going to say that the chicken was there to ward away evil, but this works too.

[John Dibble]

This article has someone who was raised by these people commenting. He alleges that the boy may have been the one to kill the chicken.

http://www.khou.com/news/national/Man-says-boy-found-with-dead-chicken-around-neck-was-no-sweet-innocent-kid-232493501.html

[minionofmidas]

Was it lunch?  Was it a playmate? 

Playmate of the Month.