A chicken owner was angry when
he found a man violating his chicken. After catching the culprit, the
owner forced him to eat the chicken as part of the punishment.
Bar
owner Ernest Mashaba, 37, of Thandizwe Village in Manguzi, South
Africa, woke up when he heard noise in his backyard. He ran outside to
see if someone was trying to steal his chicken, instead of finding a
thief he found a pervert.
Mashaba, who owns a bar, known as a
shebeen, in the village, said he found a drunk man molesting his
chicken. The man, is a regular at the bar. On Thursday, the night of the
alleged rape incident, Mashaba, closed the bar around midnight. The
alleged rapist was drunk and fell asleep outside of the bar.
Mashaba
went to sleep, but hours later he was awakened by strange noises
outside his house. He ran outside and found that the door of the coop
was open. Mashaba saw the drunk man in his chicken coop. Mashaba tried
to grab the man but he got away.
His wife, Busisiwe Thabethe, 36,
said that in the morning they realized that the chicken looked sick and
could not walk. They went looking for the man and brought him back to
the house. “We called all the neighbors to let them know what the man
did.
He apologized, saying it was probably the booze that made him do it. He offered us money to buy new chickens,” the wife said.
The wife said they made him hold the chicken so they could take a picture of him as evidence.
