HINESBURG, Vt. (AP) 鈥� A Vermont family's chicken is back home after hitching a ride in the undercarriage of their pickup truck and ending up 13 miles away in the state's largest city late last month 鈥� a journey that included speeds of 65 miles per hour on an interstate.
Someone having coffee on Burlington's Church Street Marketplace, an outdoor pedestrian mall, spotted the chicken and knew the bird was in a predicament, .
鈥淭hat鈥檚 a chicken! That鈥檚 a chicken on Church Street and I don鈥檛 know why it鈥檚 here,鈥� Lo Fasano told the news station. 鈥淲hat can I do now aside from find who it belongs to?鈥�
Fasano called rehabilitators, Shelburne Farms and the police.
鈥淭hey said they don鈥檛 do chickens,鈥� Fasano said.
So Fasano took the chicken home, gave her food and a place to nest, and turned to social media. A Facebook post led to finding the chicken's owners in Hinesburg who were worried about the lost hen.
The chicken is now home. Because of her adventurous spirit, the family changed her name from Bug to Amelia after Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
鈥淚 think about her and I鈥檓 really happy it had a happy ending,鈥� Fasano said.
The Associated Press
