November 30, 2007
Bracelet Takes a Long, Strange Trip--In a Chicken
In the Oddly Enough story to beat all Oddly Enough stories, a bracelet that 31-year-old Aaron Giles, of Gloucester, lost in a Minnesota barn as a child has turned up again 25 years later and in a chicken gizzard.
Giles told the AP that he probably lost his bracelet playing in his grandfather's barn. The barn was dismantled and moved to the town of Elmore, and workers in Elmore who were cutting up a chickens came across the object, which had Giles' name on it.
How might a chicken eat a bracelet? If you aren't familiar with chicken anatomy, the gizzard is, according to Merriam-Webster, "the muscular, usually horny-lined, enlargement of the alimentary canal of a bird used for churning and grinding up food." Obviously the bracelet resisted such grinding up and got hung up in there, probably giving the unfortunate barnyard animal a bellyache.
Some people find gizzards tasty, although this latest story might turn you into a vegetarian. It's proof that some chickens will eat anything.
Image of chickens in action from Wikipedia.


