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Chickens are used to test airplane windshields for bird impact resistance[1]; perhaps that's why.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun



"Why do our windscreens keep breaking?"

"Thaw the chicken"

(Yeah I know: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blthaw.htm)


Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.




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