Chicken flies into city council meeting

a recent durango city council meeting was for the birds. an amusing guest catches councilors by s...  More »

a recent durango city council meeting was for the birds. an amusing guest catches councilors by surprise -- stirring up a ruckus in the council chambers. our four corners reporter erisa nakano has more on the case of the mysterious chicken. during a city council meeting in durango--councilo rs were focused and serious--until they were interrupted by an unexpected visitor. "he clucked around a little bit. he did one of these moves ." this recording of tuesday's city council meeting shows that it wasn't what anyone had in mind. "haha" "an unidentified chicken came to our city council meeting tuesday night." in the middle of an executive session--a person dressed in a chicken costume made a lasting impression. "i hope the viewing audience understands that there is a chicken in the audience." the chicken attended the meeting to show support for an ordinance that was being talked about. if it passes--owning chickens could become legal in the city of durango. "it wasn't a threatening chicken or anything like that." durango mayor pro tem michael rendon introduced the "chicken ordinance" a year and a half ago. he says the chicken was very informed. "it was kind of nice to add a little mor. it wasn't an exciting meeting to begin with and in general, i actually found it refreshing to add humor to our regular meetings." the person behind the mask remains a mystery. "when the meeting was over, the chicken got up, squawked around a little bit, laid an egg and left.  « Less