Apparently, right, if you take off a cockroach's little head, it'll carry on living until it eventually starves to death. And if you take off Jim Davidson's head, it'll just carry on being an obnoxious babbling tosser until the end of time itself.
Such reflections are usually the province of hecklerspray's Disturbing Friday Fun – a weekly 'feature' (you know, just like those ones in The Economist or Newsweek) in which we provide you with a link to a baffling, unsettling or just downright odd sector of the internet. Seeing as we've already established a things-without-heads-continuing-to-live theme, we thought we'd introduce you to Mike The Headless Chicken.
Well… we can't actually introduce you. Mike The Headless Chicken has been dead for quite some time, you see. To be fair… he probably classified as dead the instant that some farmer bloke took an axe to his neck. Amazingly – despite the lack of a head – Mike The Headless Chicken continued to live for another eighteen months, shrugging off his decapitation in a display of tough-guy hardness only matched by ape-men called Barry who feature in those Britain's Nastiest Pubs TV 'specials'.
Mike The Headless Chicken was fed through an eye-dropper for the rest of his life, and became something of a celebrity in his local province of Fruita, Colorado – so much so that, to this day, he is revered as a god-like legend and even has his own annual festival. One of the events – 'fun for the whole family', apparently – is the Run Like A Headless Chicken Race.
Hmm. Hecklerspray suspects that there isn't much to do in Fruita, Colorado. Except maybe grain-sifting and compulsory incest. But we'll let you find your own sites about that.
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[story by C J Davies]
Joe reade says
Lol I love chicken!