Today was the annual Ridgeland Chicken Fly, part of Pioneer Days. This is a wonderful, traditional small town festival, involving a greased pig contest, pork chop-and-chicken community feed, silver dollar search in the haystack, and my personal favorite, the Chicken Fly. Basically, a couple of guys stand up on top of the roof of the old feed store building (now a bank) and toss chickens into a crowd, waiting to catch them. No nets are allowed, folks, and if you catch it, you keep it. Things get a little crazy: This year, a couple of kids got flattened, someone got pegged in the head by a dive-bombing rooster, and one particularly smart bird shat all over the crowd as he flew around overhead, before landing on the roof of Jorstad's IGA. I didn't catch a bird this year, but I nearly got clobbered while filming (see the end of the video for details). Later on, there's a community dance. Pigs and chickens are not encouraged to attend.
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