Headless chickens found behind bank

Headless chickens found behind bank
By Martin B. Cassidy Staff Writer March 21, 2008

Six blood-spattered fowl with their heads cut off were found behind a Mason Street bank yesterday afternoon, disturbing customers and prompting calls to police.

Police said they didn't know anything about the decapitated birds, which appeared to be chickens, left strewn under a tall hedge along the parking lot of the Putnam Trust Bank. Calls to the Animal Control Division were not returned yesterday.

Several bank customers stopped to lament the birds. David Tovar, a Greenwich resident, said he was sickened by the grisly sight of the dead birds when he spotted them after making a deposit at the bank.

"I just think it is really kind of strange for these chickens to be left here," Tovar said. "Somebody should come quickly to pick them up or bury them. Children come to the bank with their mommies."

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