This week I saw what may be one of my favorite news stories in a long time. My wife and I were watching TV the other day when we saw an add for Popeye's Chicken. This prompted the following exchange:
Her: Why are they doing an add for Popeye's Chicken when the only Popeye's Chicken is in the ghetto on Lake St?
Me (Slobbering, in a gross voice with a perverty look on my face): Cuz chicken iz Guuuuuuuuud!!!
Her: Ewww. Get away from me.
It took my a long time to get out of "Level 3 Sex offender for Chicken" mode, and back in to "regular old pervert" mode.
Anyhow, Popeye's was advertising a special for cheap fried chicken on Earth Day, which is a promotion that still makes no sense to me, but that's beside the point. The point is, I was not the only one to see that advertisement and get all hopped up for chicken. According to the reports, hundreds upon hundreds of people came down to Lake St to get discount chicken. Lines of cars were stretched around the corner and out into the street, all of them filled with people with Chicken Jones'es.
There was only one problem. The only Popeye's restaurant in the state of Minnesota was not participating in the chicken discount. As you might imagine, chicken fueled chaos ensued. There was fighting and cars honking and yelling and mass hysteria after a short period of time. It got so intense, that the police had to come in and help restore peace to the chicken melee.
This whole story makes me happy for a number of reasons.
1.) People are still willing to fight about chicken. I think this has to be categorized as a good thing. Put aside the gang stuff and drug stuff for a day and fight about chicken. If nothing else, it's a refreshing change of pace.
2.) Some dispatcher actually had to say something like "Unit 1269, repeat, Unit 1269, we have an unauthorized chicken riot going on over at the Popeye's. Please advise." Then some policeman arresting a guy for murdering his family heard it and said, "CHICKEN RIOT!! DEAR SWEET LORD!! You're off the hook this time fella, but don't let me catch you doing that shit again. Murder is NOT funny." Then he zoomed off.
3.) Some guy took a cab from Burnsville to get chicken. That probably costs at least 80 bucks, and he was complaining about the extra 5 dollars he had to pay since they weren't conducting the Earth Day promotion. Awesome.
Finally, something of note. This particular Popeye's used to be owned by Dr. John Najarian, renowned Heart Transplant Surgeon at the University of Minnesota. You think he was fattening up his lambs for slaughter, so to speak?
Her: Why are they doing an add for Popeye's Chicken when the only Popeye's Chicken is in the ghetto on Lake St?
Me (Slobbering, in a gross voice with a perverty look on my face): Cuz chicken iz Guuuuuuuuud!!!
Her: Ewww. Get away from me.
It took my a long time to get out of "Level 3 Sex offender for Chicken" mode, and back in to "regular old pervert" mode.
Anyhow, Popeye's was advertising a special for cheap fried chicken on Earth Day, which is a promotion that still makes no sense to me, but that's beside the point. The point is, I was not the only one to see that advertisement and get all hopped up for chicken. According to the reports, hundreds upon hundreds of people came down to Lake St to get discount chicken. Lines of cars were stretched around the corner and out into the street, all of them filled with people with Chicken Jones'es.
There was only one problem. The only Popeye's restaurant in the state of Minnesota was not participating in the chicken discount. As you might imagine, chicken fueled chaos ensued. There was fighting and cars honking and yelling and mass hysteria after a short period of time. It got so intense, that the police had to come in and help restore peace to the chicken melee.
This whole story makes me happy for a number of reasons.
1.) People are still willing to fight about chicken. I think this has to be categorized as a good thing. Put aside the gang stuff and drug stuff for a day and fight about chicken. If nothing else, it's a refreshing change of pace.
2.) Some dispatcher actually had to say something like "Unit 1269, repeat, Unit 1269, we have an unauthorized chicken riot going on over at the Popeye's. Please advise." Then some policeman arresting a guy for murdering his family heard it and said, "CHICKEN RIOT!! DEAR SWEET LORD!! You're off the hook this time fella, but don't let me catch you doing that shit again. Murder is NOT funny." Then he zoomed off.
3.) Some guy took a cab from Burnsville to get chicken. That probably costs at least 80 bucks, and he was complaining about the extra 5 dollars he had to pay since they weren't conducting the Earth Day promotion. Awesome.
Finally, something of note. This particular Popeye's used to be owned by Dr. John Najarian, renowned Heart Transplant Surgeon at the University of Minnesota. You think he was fattening up his lambs for slaughter, so to speak?
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