Chicken thief couldn’t recognise bird

Excerp from The Star Online:

[IPOH: A man who admitted to stealing a chicken got amused looks in a magistrate’s court here when he could not recognise the same bird brought to him for identification.

Contract worker R. Maran, 29, was asked to identify the bird after pleading guilty to stealing the 1.5kg cockerel from a coop in Hala Perindustrian Menglembu 13, here, on Oct 10.

However, when owner carried the chicken into the magistrate’s court yesterday, Maran un­expectedly denied that the black bird with brown chest feathers was the one he had stolen.

“What? You think it has been switched?” asked prosecuting officer Asst Supt Jamaluddin Osman to chuckles from the public gallery. ]

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Hahaha, I think this is the funniest court case I've heard ever, this year! Poor guy got jailed for 3 months for the crime. But still! My god, don't you think it's hilarious that they have to present the chicken for identification?! Perhaps they the prosecutor should get the CSI to get involve.