EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. - A couple of the concrete chickens from East Grand Forks' sesquicentennial barnyard collection, reported stolen Tuesday morning, were evidently trying to cross the road Monday night.
That's when UND student Staci Johanneck ran over them.
Johanneck told the Herald she was driving down 20th Street in Grand Forks near Valley Middle School where two of the filched fowls were later found, one of them with its head cut off.
Someone had evidently set the chickens up in the middle of the road, Johanneck said, and she didn't notice them until she felt them scraping the underside of her car.
Johanneck picked up the two chickens that damaged her car so that no one else would run over them, she said. But Johanneck didn't know the chickens belonged to an East Side display until reading about the theft in today's Herald.
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She said she plans to call police and turn the two statues over to them today.
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